World Hunger

Feed an Hungry / Underpriviledged child wherever & whenever possible

Every year, authors, journalists, teachers, researchers, schoolchildren and students ask  for statistics about hunger and malnutrition. To help answer these questions, WFP ( World Food Programme powered by UN ( United Nations ) compiled a database of useful facts and figures on world hunger .

• 925 million people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union;
  (Source: FAO news release, 14 September 2010)
• 98 percent of the world's hungry live in developing countries;
  (Source: FAO news release, 2010)
• Asia and the Pacific region is home to over half the world’s population and nearly two thirds of the world’s hungry people;
  (Source: FAO news release, 2010)
• 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)
• 65 percent  of the world's hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
  (Source: FAO news release, 2010)

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