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More than 1 billion people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation, 30 March 2009. http://www.alertnet.org/db/an_art/20316/2009/02/27-170057-1.htm
The number of undernourished people in the world increased by 75 million in 2007 and 40 million in 2008, largely due to higher food prices.
Source: FAO news release, 9 Dec 2008 http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/8836/icode/
More than 907 million people in developing countries alone are hungry.
Source: World Food Programme, 2009. http://beta.wfp.org/hunger-stats
Every 6 seconds a child dies because he or she is hungry.
Source: World Food Programme, 2009. http://beta.wfp.org/hunger-stats
The world produces enough food to feed everyone. Total food production in calories per person per day has increased by 25 percent since 1961 and is more than sufficient to feed every person on earth 2800 calories per day. The principal problem is that many people in the world do not have sufficient land to grow, or income to purchase, enough food.
Source: FAOSTAT Agriculture Data: Food Supply, Crops, Primary Equivalent. February, 2004.
http://faostat.fao.org/faostat/collections?subset=agriculture
There are more than 1 billion people in the world living at the margin of survival on less than $1 a day. 2.6 billion people live on less than $2 per day - which is 40% of the world’s population. Over 800 million of these poor suffer from chronic hunger, which means that their daily intake of calories is insufficient for them to lead active and healthy lives.
Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2007/2008.
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_en_complete.pdf
Hunger is on the rise: The number of hungry people in the developing world reached 17% in 2007, compared to 16% in 2003-2005.
Source: World Food Programme, 2009. http://beta.wfp.org/hunger-stats
In the least developed countries of the world, 141 children out of 1,000 die before their fifth birthday. By comparison, in the United States 8 children in 1,000 will die before turning five years old. Source: The World Bank, Data and Statistics, MDGs, 2008. http://go.worldbank.org/9376HMEI40 |
