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From the World Food Programme.
- Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That’s about one in nine people on Earth.(1)
- The vast majority of the world’s hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9% of the population is undernourished.(2)
- Asia is the continent with the most hungry people – two-thirds of the total. The percentage in southern Asia has fallen in recent years but in western Asia it has increased slightly.(3)
- Sub-Saharan...
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