1. At present, there are 925 million people in the world who do not
eat enough to be healthy. That means, one in every seven people on Earth goes to bed hungry each night. (Source: FAO News Release, 2010)
2. Rising food prices pushed an additional 44
million people into hunger between June 2010 and February 2011 when they soared
to their highest level ever. (Source: World Bank Food Price Watch, 2011)
3. While the number of hungry people has risen, as a percentage of
the world population, hunger has actually
fallen from 33 per cent of the population in 1969 to just over 15 per
cent of the population in 2010. (Source: FAO, 2010)
4. Well over half of the world’s hungry people–some 578 million
people–live in Asia and the Pacific region. Africa accounts for just over one
quarter of the world’s hungry population. Source: (Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2010)
5. Hunger is number one on the list of the
world’s top 10 health risks. It kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria
and tuberculosis combined. (Source: UNAIDS global report, 2010; WHO World Hunger and Poverty
Statistics, 2011).
