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When it comes to our basic needs - and the basic expenditures it takes to meet them - none is more important than food. We decided to kick off our 2018 Global Basic Needs Comparison series by showing how far $100 USD will go to provide for a single person's daily nourishment, measured in days.

The beauty of a visualization is you don't need to read through a report to start picking out insights and seeing trends, but there are a few insight we wanted to call out: