Hunger facts
More than 840 million people in the world are malnourished.
Startling facts like these are not uncommon:
- The world produces enough food to supply everyone with 2,720 calories a day.
- More than 300 million children wake up hungry every day.
- 6 million children under the age of 5 die each year as a result of hunger.
- 1.2 billion people live on less than € 0.87 a day.
- One-third of children under 5 in the world suffer from chronic malnutrition.
- In developing countries, 91 children out of 1,000 die before their fifth birthday.
- More than 2 million children each year have severe visual problems due to lack of Vitamin A.
- Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) affects every fourth child worldwide.
- Hungry people outnumber the populations of Tokyo, Moscow, New Delhi, Buenos Aires, New York City, and Shanghai combined. Times ten.
- Hunger is not caused by food scarcity, but by poor distribution.
- One person in 5 in developing countries is undernourished
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