World Hunger facts

    * 854 million people are hungry

Developing nations

    * 820 million people are undernourished
    * 1 billion people live on less than $1/day
    * 146 million children under age 5 are underweight
          o 10 million children under age 5 die every year, over half of hunger-related causes
    * 1 in 6 people is hungry
    * 1 in 6 people lacks safe drinking water

Facts about Hunger

    * More than 840 million people in the world are malnourished — 799 million of them live in the developing world.

    * More than 153 million of the world's malnourished people are children under the age of 5.

    * Six million children under the age of 5 die every year as a result of hunger.

 

The world hunger problem: Facts, figures and statistics

    * In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"

    * Every year 15 million children die of hunger

    * For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years

U.N. studies show that the world already produces more than enough food to feed everyone on the planet and has the capacity to produce even more, and yet...

World hunger organizations estimate that nearly 1 BILLION people around the world are chronically hungry.

• 30,000 children die every day of hunger or diseases resulting from hunger.*

Nearly 200 million children in the world are malnourished according to the United Nations.

The number of people who die from hunger every 3 ½ days is the same number of people who died from the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.

The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world’s hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world.