sapphi_snake said:
I'm actually curious, how many homeless or starving people are there in America? |
It depends on your definition of homeless.
The US has a pretty high number of homeless but most are classfied as "Transitional homeless" IE they are homeless for less then 3 months in a year.
So that's a factor.
Then you have to consider if you count people who are homeless who are in shelters as homeless or not... etc. Or people in Transitional shelters... etc.
The "Total" number is 1.6 Million in one year... and about 664,000 as the maxium amount in one night over the course of that year but that includes a lot of situations that wouldn't count as homeless in other countries. 125,000 of that 664,000 were considered "Chronic Homeless" which is people who were homeless for more then 2-3 months in a given year.
One thing America has over most other countries is that we err on the side of caution in are statistics.
It's why our Infant mortality rate is so high. We count more children as infants... while other countries have height and weight requirements before they consider a child a live birth... even if he was birthed alive!
