Conflict and Food Insecurity
If everyone in the world paid the same percentage of their income for a plate of beans, here’s what they’d end up shelling out.
This bar chart shows the meal-to-income ratio in the Global North versus developing countries in 2020. The data shows that food affordability for a basic meal based on the same percentage of one's income can vary drastically. For example, a basic meal costs around $1.20 in New York State, or 0.6% of their income can cost 300 times in a developing nation like South Sudan.
