Do you know these World Hunger Facts?

  • 868 million are hungry (12.5 percent of the global population)
    Source: FAO 2012 Executive Summary
  • 25,000 people (adults and children) die every day from hunger and related causes.
    Source: FAO, 2009. , Poverty.com
  • More than 60 percent of chronically hungry people are women.
    Source: World Food Programme, 2009.
  • Malnutrition remains the world’s most serious health problem and the single biggest contributor to child mortality, more than HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria combined.
    Source: USAID, 2009.
  • One child dies every six seconds from malnutrition and related causes.
    Source: World Food Programme.
  • 1 in 7 people in the world will go to bed hungry tonight.
    Source: World Food Programme, 2009.

 

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