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WORLD POPULATION
6.8 billion

WORLD HUNGER
925 million people do not have enough to eat — more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union combined.

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

Two-thirds of the world's hungry live in just 7 countries: Bangladesh, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia and Pakistan.

WHERE IS HUNGER THE WORST?
Asia and the Pacific: 578 million
Sub-Saharan Africa: 239 million
Latin America and the Caribbean: 53 million
Near East and North Africa: 37 million
Developed countries: 19 million

WOMEN & CHILDREN
60 percent of the world's hungry are women.

50 percent of pregnant women in developing countries lack proper maternal care, resulting in over 300,000 maternal deaths annually from childbirth.

1 out of 6 infants are born with a low birth weight in developing countries.

A third of all childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa is caused by hunger.

Every five seconds, a child dies from hunger-related diseases.

POVERTY
1.4 billion people in developing countries live on $1.25 a day or less.

Rural areas account for three out of every four people living on less than $1.25 a day.

22,000 children die each day due to conditions of poverty.

HIV/AIDS & OTHER DISEASES
35 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.

65 percent of young people living with HIV/AIDS are women.

90 percent of all children and 60 percent of all women living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.

More than 11 million children die each year from preventable health issues such as malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.

AGRICULTURE
75 percent of the world's poorest people — 1.4 billion women, children, and men — live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihood.

50 percent of hungry people are farming families.

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.

Source: The Hunger Project

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