16000 children die a day from hunger
"After all, no one, anywhere, gets up in the morning muttering: “Yes, yes, I want to make sure another child dies of hunger”; yet it happens at least 16,000 times every day."
United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization, “Undernourishment Around the World: Hunger and Mortality,” The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2002, 1. Accessed on 2/20/09 at ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/005/y7352e/y7352e01.pdf