HUNGER

&

POVERTY What the newspapers and internet say!

http://thp.org/knowledge-center/know-

your-world-facts-about-hunger-poverty/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfe

atures/hunger/

https://www.wfp.org/stories/10-hunger-

facts-2014

Researched

By

Group2,

Care2FeedMalta

WORLD HUNGER

805 million people – or one in nine people in the world – do not have

enough to eat.

98% of the world’s undernourished people live in developing countries.

Where is hunger the worst?

Asia: 525.6 million

Sub-Saharan Africa: 214 million

Latin America and the Caribbean: 37 million

Women and Children

60 percent of the world’s hungry are

women.

50 percent of pregnant women in

developing countries lack proper

maternal care.

1 out of 6 infants are born with a low

birth weight in developing countries.

Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%)

of deaths in children under five – 3.1

million children each year. That is 8,500

children per day.

22,000 CHILDREN DIE EACH DAY DUE

TO CONDITIONS OF POVERTY.

Water

1.7 billion people lack access to clean

water.

2.3 billion people suffer from water-

borne diseases each year.

12 percent of the world’s population

uses 85 percent of its water, and none of

the 12 percent lives in developing

countries.

By 2050, climate change and erratic

weather patterns could push another

24 million children into hunger.

Almost half of these children would

be in sub-Saharan Africa.

How to feed the whole

population in 2050:

Hunger can be eliminated in our

lifetimes. The Zero Hunger Challenge,

launched by the UN Secretary General

Ban ki-Moon, works to galvanize global

support around this very objective.