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"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi
There are over 700 malnourished people in the world today. According to the World Food Programme, the world produces enough food to feed seven billion of the entire global population and still, one in nine people go to bed hungry. We can afford to waste food but there are so many people out there who hardly get anything to eat.
Let's look at some facts on world hunger:
According to the Global Hunger Index, about 11.3 percent (about 805 million) of the world's population is hungry
The world produces enough food to feed all 7 billion people
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
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Poverty is the principal cause of hunger
The causes of poverty include lack of resources, unequal income distribution, conflict, and hunger itself
In 2010, an estimation of 7.6 million children, which is over 20,000 a day die of hunger
Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food
Asia is the continent with the most hungry people. It consists of about two thirds of the total population
Every 10 seconds, a child dies from hunger-related diseases
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, about 805 million people of the 7.3 billion people in the world were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2012-2014
It also says that almost all the hungry people, i.e. 791 million live in developing countries
The top ten hungriest countries are: Burundi, Eritrea, Timor-Leste, Comoros, Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia, Yemen, Zambia and Haiti.