By the Numbers: Hunger in the World

Hunger remains the world’s number one health risk. It kills more people than the planet’s most devastating diseases – such as, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis – combined.

 

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While most people in Western countries do not know hunger as "ceaseless discomfort, weakness, and pain", poverty knows no boundaries and it afflicts people in both developed and developing nations.


Of the 851,014 individuals assisted:
 

 

 

Source: Hungercount survey 2011