Statistics on Hunger

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Here’s an animated map showing the percentage of a country’s population that is undernourished, and the development of this percentage over the years.

In 2007, nearly 1 billion people were undernourished worldwide (source).

The proportion of people in the total population who suffer from hunger remains the highest in sub-Saharan Africa, where one in three people are estimated to be chronically hungry in 2003 to 2005. FAO economist Kostas Stamoulis

Not surprisingly, children are some of the hardest hit:

One way to measure malnourishment is to look at the level of daily calorie intake per person. In an age when the world is producing more food than ever before it is a scandal to see that many people have a calorie intake that is below what is necessary for decent survival (2000 calories):