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technothrashertoday at 3:28 PM1 replyview on HN

> Take Europe for example: nobody dies of hunger in Europe.

Nobody? France, as the most extreme example, has a rate of 1.52 per 100K. That's about a thousand people a year. That is certainly a small percentage of the population, but it isn't "nobody".

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/malnutrit...


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ceejayoztoday at 3:48 PM

> That's about a thousand people a year.

Eh, maybe.

Some of those may be hospice-style scenarios, where starvation is technically the cause of death at times. https://www.ccjm.org/content/ccjom/70/6/548.full.pdf