The global number of hungry people declined by 132 million between 1990-92 and 2010-12, or from 18.6 percent to 12.5 percent of the world's population, and from 23.2 percent to 14.9 percent in developing countries - putting the MDG target within reach if adequate, appropriate actions are taken.
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The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a multidimensional statistical tool used to describe the state of countries’ hunger situation. The GHI measures progress and failures in the global fight against hunger.[13] The GHI is updated once a year.
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The vast majority of the hungry, 852 million, live in developing countries -- around 15 percent of their population -- while 16 million people are undernourished in developed countries.
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1 in every 9 people goes to bed hungry each night. Around the world, 795 million people do not have enough of the food they need to live an active, healthy life. People suffering from chronic hunger are plagued with recurring illnesses, developmental disabilities and low productivity.
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Latin America and the Caribbean also made progress, falling from 65 million hungry in 1990-1992 to 49 million in 2010-2012, while the prevalence of undernourishment dipped from 14.6 percent to 8.3 percent.
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98 percent of the world’s hungry live in developing regions. Most of them live in Asia. The highest number of malnourished people, 553 million, lives in Asia and the Pacific, in countries like Indonesia and the Philippines. In sub-Saharan Africa, 227 million people face hunger in arid countries like Ethiopia, Niger and Mali.
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The world produces enough food for everyone to live a healthy, productive life. There is now 17 percent more food available per person than there was 30 years ago. And if all the world's food were evenly distributed, there would be enough for everyone to get 2,700 calories per day—even more than the minimum 2,100 requirement for proper health.
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Answer. According to my sources More than 852 million people, about 13 percent of the world population is starving. Login or Sign Up to answer this question.
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The majority of these hungry families live in rural areas where they widely depend on agriculture to survive. Timor-Leste, a tiny island nation near Indonesia, has one of the highest rates of hunger in the world. Photo by Miguel Samper for Mercy Corps. 60 percent of the world’s hungry are women and girls. In many places, male-dominated social structures limit the resources women have like job opportunities, financial services, and education, making them more vulnerable to poverty and hunger.
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For even while 870 million people remain hungry, the world is increasingly faced with a double burden of malnutrition, with chronic undernourishment and micronutrient malnutrition co-existing with obesity, overweight and related non-communicable diseases (affecting more than 1.4 billion people worldwide).
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what percentage of the world is starving?
About 13 percent of the world population is starving.