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• In 2009, it was estimated that more than 1.02 billion people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union combined.  That means one in nearly six people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life.                                                                              
  Source: World Food Programme, 2010. http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

• Out of the 1.02 billion who are hungry, more than 907 million of them live in developing countries. 
  Source: World Food Programme, 2009. http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

• 25,000 people (adults and children) die every day from hunger and related causes.
  Source: FAO, 2009.  http://www.fao.org/mdg/55978/en/

• In 2007, the number of undernourished people in the world increased by 75 million, primarily due to the increase in food prices.
  Source: World Food Programme, 2009. http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

• Asia and the Pacific region are home to over half the world’s population and nearly two thirds of the world’s hungry people.
  Source: World Food Programme, 2009. http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

• More than 60 percent of chronically hungry people are women. 
  Source: World Food Programme, 2009. http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

• There are about 1 billion people in the world living on less than $1 a day. Roughly 2.6 billion people live on less than $2 per day - which is 40% of the world’s population. Almost half the world – over 3 billion people - lives on less than $2.50. 
  Source: Global Issues, 2010.  http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats

• Malnutrition remains the world’s most serious health problem and the single biggest contributor to child mortality, more than HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria combined.                
  Source: USAID, 2009.  http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/nut/

• Nearly one-third of children in the developing world are chronically malnourished.                 
  Source: USAID, 2009.  http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/nut/

• Undernutrition contributes to more than one-half of the 9.7 million deaths of children under five each year in developing countries. This means that one child dies every six seconds from malnutrition and related causes. 
  Source: World Food Programme, 2009. http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats