1) If all Americans together consume 200 billion more calories than required,
how many additional people could be fed by this excess?
8,000,000,000
800,000
8,000,000
80,000,000
Based on data from the World Bank in 2008, Americans consume a disproportionate amount of calories in relation to their population with Americans consuming 24% of the world's energy while only being 5% of the population.
It was estimated that Americans were consuming 200 billon more calories than was required and that this was enough to feed an additional 80 million people.
