11 Facts About World Hunger - World Food Day 2017
As we mark World Hunger Day 2017, here are 11 facts about world hunger you should know.
1. 11.3% of the
world’s population is hungry. That’s roughly 805 million people who go
undernourished on a daily basis, consuming less than the recommended 2,100
calories a day.
2. The world
produces enough food to feed all 7 billion people, but those who go hungry
either do not have land to grow food or money to purchase it.
3. 10 countries
that have achieved greatest success in reducing the total number of hungry
people in proportion to their national population are Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Brazil, Cuba, Georgia, Ghana, Kuwait, Saint Vincent and Grenadines,
Thailand and Venezuela.
4. Poverty is
the principal cause of hunger. The causes of poverty include poor people's
lack of resources, an extremely unequal income distribution in the world
and within specific countries, conflict, and hunger itself.
5. In 2010, an
estimated 7.6 million children — more than 20,000 a day — died. Poor
nutrition plays a role in at least half of these deaths.
6. Nearly 98%
of worldwide hunger exists in underdeveloped countries.
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7. Almost 1 in
every 15 children in developing countries dies before the age of 5, most
of them from hunger-related causes.
8. While hunger
exists worldwide, 526 million hungry people live in Asia.
9. Over a
quarter of the world's undernourished people live in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Almost 1 in 4 people in this region is chronically hungry.
10. When a
mother is undernourished during pregnancy, the baby is often born
undernourished, too. Every year, 17 million children are born this way due
to a mother’s lack of nutrition before and during pregnancy.
11. Women in hunger are so deficient of basic nutrients (like iron) that
315,000 die during childbirth from hemorrhaging every year.
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