The proportion of hungry people in developing countries has declined significantly – from 23.2% in 1990-92 to 14.9% today. However, this decrease owes more to a rise in the world’s population than it does to the slight reduction in the actual number of hungry people (from about 980 million to 852 million today).
过去12年来，到2015年将饥饿人口减半这一千年发展目标是减少饥饿运动的主要驱动力。发展中国家饥饿人口的比例已显著下降 - 从1990-1992年的23.2％降至目前的14.9％。然而，下降的主要原因是世界人口的增加，而不是实际饥饿人数的略有减少（从大约9.8亿减少到今天的8.52亿）。