PG04 : Hunger Stats

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)

http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats