10 Surprising Stats about World Hunger
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10 Surprising Stats about World Hunger
- Hunger is the world's number 1 health risk; it kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.
- Some 925 million people do not have enough to eat.
- Ninety-eight percent of them live in the developing world.
- One in seven people in the world will go to bed hungry tonight.
- There are more hungry people in the world than the combined populations of the U.S., Canada, and the European Union.
- Undernutrition contributes to five million deaths of children under five each year in developing countries.
- If we took the money Americans spend annually on potato and tortilla chips ($13.6 billion), we could reach 90 percent of stunted children in the 36 highest-burden countries.
- Worldwide, 115 million children under the age of 5 are underweight.
- The Asian and Pacific regions contain over half the world's population and nearly two-thirds of the world's hungry people.
- Supplementation with vitamins could reduce the risk of child mortality from all causes by 23 percent.
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