Daily food production17 billion kg
1.7 billionBicycles
54.8 billionSneakers
About 17 billion kg per day
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World's Daily Food Production
About 17 billion kg of food produced every day to feed 8 billion people/Collective & Conceptual
Humanity produces roughly 6 billion tonnes of food per year, which works out to about 17 billion kg per day. This includes grains, fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy, and seafood from farms, ranches, and fisheries across every continent except Antarctica. Roughly one third of all food produced is lost or wasted before anyone eats it, which amounts to about 1.3 billion tonnes per year thrown away while 800 million people go hungry.
Measurements
Annual food production6 trillion kg
60 trillionNewborn pandas
2 trillionLabrador puppies
1.09Teaspoons of neutron star
About 6 billion tonnes
Annual food waste1.3 trillion kg
619 millionSUVs
13 septillionPlatelet weights
897 millionHelicopters
About one third of production
Daily caloric content40 quadrillion J
571 quadrillionBubble wrap pop energies
9.6 millionTons of TNT
400 nonillionthsSupernovae
Roughly 10 trillion kilocalories daily
Global farmland48 trillion m^2
192 trillionMonopoly boards
48 sextillionHuman cell surfaces
About 48 million km^2, 38% of land surface
Daily water for agriculture7 billion m^3
167 millionLiving rooms
1.4 quadrillionTeaspoons
579 millionthsLake Superiors
About 70% of global freshwater use