[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Murky]

How did they obtain the data? A survey of people's daily dietary intake?

Source

FAO Statistics Division 2010, Food Balance Sheets, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, viewed 17th March, 2011, <http://faostat.fao.org/>.

This is from their website when you click the Read more button.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

EDIT: A guy in the comments says this: "These numbers are incorrect. These are the numbers for AVAILABLE kcal per person, not actual intake (source: Euromonitor)"

I was wondering how much would be food waste.

 

[Murky]

Americans at the beginning of the 21st
century are consuming more food and
several hundred more calories per person
per day than did their counterparts
in the late 1950s (when per capita calorie
consumption was at the lowest level in
the last century), or even in the 1970s.
The aggregate food supply in 2000 provided
3,800 calories per person per day,
500 calories above the 1970 level and 800
calories above the record low in 1957
and 1958 (fig. 2-1).
Of that 3,800 calories, USDA’s Economic
Research Service (ERS) estimates that
roughly 1,100 calories were lost to
spoilage, plate waste, and cooking and
other losses, putting dietary intake of
calories in 2000 at just under 2,700 calories
per person per day.
http://www.usda.gov/factbook/chapter2.pdf

This is just America, but it looks like we're wasting 1,100 kcal per day per capita and consuming 2,700 (on average).

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Horrid. I was brought up never to waste food if it can be helped.

 

[Cutlass]

Horrid. I was brought up never to waste food if it can be helped.

Think of all the sources of waste. Damage and spoilage in production, shipping and processing. Unsold food that is thrown away when passing expiration dates. Stuff left on the plate and scraped into the trash, excess produced that cannot be saved.

The price of having virtually anything anyone wants on demand is that a lot of it doesn't get used before it's too late.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Stuff left on the plate and scraped into the trash, excess produced that cannot be saved.

These are under the control of consumers though.

 

[Save_Ferris]

 

[madviking]

Uhh...

 

[Godwynn]

The Economist has crunched the numbers and on the basis of seven indicators covering economic output, wealth and labour markets, the United States has already gone back in time some ten years. Its GDP per person, for example, was at a higher level than today back in 2005 and its main stockmarket index was higher in 1999. Of the countries considered, Greece has fared the worst. In economic terms, it is just entering the new millennium again. As a whole the rich world has been hardest hit by the financial crisis. Just six of the 34 "advanced" economies categorised by the IMF have GDP per person higher in 2011 than in 2007. Notable among them are Germany and Australia.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

You just won’t give Greece a break, will you?

Anyway,

Law should be obvious. Interesting to note the decrease in agriculture coupled with the increase in finance.

 

[Mise]

Posted this in rape thread, may as well post here too:

 

[Leoreth]

@Godwynn's chart: So Germany's deep in the crisis, and everyone else is in the happy times before the crisis?

 

[gangleri2001]

@Godwynn's chart: So Germany's deep in the crisis, and everyone else is in the happy times before the crisis?

Gotta envy the Greeks, they are back in the golden nineties.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

@Mise
Awesomely depressing graph you got there.

 

[Mise]

Indeed

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

&#8220;Small companies in America do not tend to expand employment as much over long periods as large ones, according to new statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But employment levels have been more stable at smaller companies during economic downturns, particularly during the recession beginning in 2000.&#8221;

 

[Monsterzuma]

Law should be obvious. Interesting to note the decrease in agriculture coupled with the increase in finance.

my half educated guess is that you find those increases/decreases among all demographics. agriculture has been shrinking as % of total employment through the whole country and the opposite is true of finance.

 

[gangleri2001]

Since I know Winner likes everything related to forest surface a lot, here's a chart on Catalonia's surface:

Dark green: Forests (39%)
Pale yellow: Fields (27%)
Lime: Scrubland (20%)
Red: Cities, roads and other human infrastructures (6%)
Royal blue: Other vegetation (meadows, grassland, etc.) (5%)
Dark orange: Vegetation-free areas (beaches, screes, snowfields, etc.) (3%)

 

[Monsterzuma]

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-26/risk-on-was-2008-just-a-bad-dream

looks like a cyclical pattern to me.

 

[Winner]

Africa...