WFP Fighting Hunger Worldwide

EVERY DAY, around 18,000 Children Die from Starvation!
These Children don't know that we can help them, they just die!

I'm Fighting Hunger Worldwide, Are you ??

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Source: http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

World Food Programme © 2009

GLOBAL HUNGER

• 25,000 people (adults and children) die every day from hunger and related causes; (Source: The State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2008)
• 963 million people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union; (Source: FAO news release, 9 Dec 2008)
• The number of undernourished people in the world increased by 75 million in 2007 and 40 million, largely due to higher food prices; (Source: FAO news release, 9 Dec 2008)
• 907 million people in developing countries alone are hungry; (Source: The State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2008)
• Asia and the Pacific region is home to over half the world’s population and nearly two thirds of the world’s hungry people; (Source: The State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2008)
• More than 60 percent of chronically hungry people are women; (Source: The State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2006)
• 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: The State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2008)

CHILD HUNGER

• Every six seconds a child dies because she or he is hungry; (Source: State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2004)
• More than 70 percent of the world's 146 million underweight children under age five years live in just 10 countries, with more than 50 per cent located in South Asia alone; (Source: Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, UNICEF, 2006)
• 10.9 million children under 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)
• The cost of undernutrition to national economic development is estimated at US$20-30 billion per annum; (Source: Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, UNICEF, 2006)
• One out of four children - roughly 146 million - in developing countries are underweight; (Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2007)
• WFP provided school meals and/or take home rations to 19.3 million children in 70 countries in 2007; (Source: WFP School Feeding Unit)