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A full 30 percent of all food produced in the world each year is wasted or lost -- about 1.3 billion tons of it.
Europeans and North Americans waste between 95 and 115 kilograms of food apiece each year. Those living in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia waste much, much less -- between 6 and 11 kilograms per person. All in all, the developed world wastes 10 times more food than the developing one.