Jul 14, 2012
Every day, millions of children go hungry. But it doesn't have to be that way.
- Hunger is the world's No. 1 health risk, causing more deaths annually worldwide than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
(Source: World Food Program) - One in seven people in the world will go to bed hungry tonite.
(Source: World Food Program) - There are more hungry people in the world (925 million) than the combined population of the United States, Canada and the European Union (841 million)
(Source: World Food Program) - 925 million people do not have enough to eat and 98 percent of them live in developing countries. (Source: FAO news release, 14 September 2010)
- 65 percent of the world's hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
(Source: FAO news release, 2010) - Undernutrition contributes to 5 million deaths of children under age five each year in developing countries.
(Source: Under five deaths by cause, UNICEF, 2006) - One out of four children — roughly 146 million — in developing countries is underweight
(Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2007) - 10.9 million children under age five die in developing countries each year. Malnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 percent of the deaths;
(Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2007) - Iron deficiency is the most prevalent form of malnutrition worldwide, affecting an estimated 2 billion people. Eradicating iron deficiency can improve national productivity levels by as much as 20 percent.
(Source: World Health Organization, WHO Global Database on Anaemia
Find out about the causes of hunger — and the solutions — in the video below from World Vision Australia (with music by Gotye.)
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