World
Hunger Statistics
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Total number of
children that die every year from hunger
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15 million
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Percent of world
population considered to be starving
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33%
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Time between deaths
of people who die from hunger
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3.6 seconds
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Total number of
people in the world who suffer from hunger and malnutrition
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800 million
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Total number of
people who do not have enough to eat
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936 million people
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Total percentage
who do not have enough to eat who live in developing countries
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98%
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Total percentage of
world’s hungry that live in 7 countries
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65%
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Number of people
who died of hunger today
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20,864
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Total number of
people who will die of hunger this year
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2,073,588
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Total percentage of
U.S. households that are at risk of hunger
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11%
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Source: Facing the
Future, Think Quest, Hunger Relief Organizations
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Research Date:
10.8.2012
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1) 870 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. This number has fallen by 130 million since 1990, but progress slowed after 2008.
(Source:State of Food Insecurity in the World,FAO, 2012)
2) The vast majority of hungry people (98 percent) live in developing countries, where almost 15% of the population is undernourished.
(Source:State of Food Insecurity in the World,FAO, 2012)
3) Asia and the Pacific have the largest share of the world's hungry people: some 563 million but the trend is downward.
(Source: State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2012)
4) Women make up a little over half of the world's population, but they account for over 60 percent of the world’s hungry.
(Source: Strengthening efforts to eradicate hunger..., ECOSOC, 2007)
5) Undernutrition contributes to 2.6 million deaths of children under five each year - one third of the global total.(Source: Levels and Trends in Child Mortality, UNICEF, 2011)
6) One out of six children -- roughly 100 million -- in developing countries is underweight.
(Source: Global health Observatory, WHO, 2011)
7) One in four of the world's children are stunted. In developing countries the proportion can rise to one in three.
(Source: Prevalence and Trends of Stunting among Pre-school Children, Public Health Nutrition, 2012)
8) 80 percent of the world's stunted children live in just 20 countries.
(Source: Maternal and Child Undernutrition: Effective Action at National Level,The Lancet, 2008)
9) 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone.
(Source:Two Minutes to Learn About School Meals, WFP, 2012)
10) WFP calculates that US$3.2 billion is needed per year to reach all 66 million hungry school-age children.
(Source:Two Minutes to Learn About School Meals, WFP, 2012)
Souces: wfp.org, globalissues.org