How much food did the world produce in 2024?

There are still a few regions with very high fertility rates—notably in sub-Saharan Africa—and as a result, living standards are not yet rising at the rates needed to end poverty in those places. The expectation is that with more urbanization and longer years of schooling, especially for girls, fertility rates will decline in those places as well.

2.8 gha per capita). That seems like an impossible challenge already—and yet it is still a full global hectare beyond the one-planet threshold.15

Can one live on that? And yet, around the world, in 2005, 865 million people (13 percent of the world’s population) did.

the corn required to fill one twenty-five-gallon SUV tank can feed one person for a full year).

Given enough time, water shortages and extreme events like floods and heatwaves will regularly hit several food-producing regions at once. Global food prices will rocket. With our current trajectory, it’s not unimaginable that supermarket shelves in some countries will start to get patchy, perhaps beginning somewhere between the middle and the end