Global Hunger

The world is facing a hunger crisis unlike anything it has seen in more than 50 years. Over 920 million people are hungry around the world. Every day, almost 16.000 children die from being hungry. One child around the world dies from hunger every 5 seconds.  In the year 2005 there were 1.4 billion people in extreme poverty.

The World Bank has estimated that the rise in global food prices in 2008, followed by the global economic recession in 2009 and 2010 has pushed more than 100 million people into having no money.  In the year of 2008, nearly 9 million children died before they reached their fifth birthday. One third of these deaths are due to hunger and malnutrition.

 Malnutrition is not having enough nourishing food, with adequate amounts of protein, vitamins, minerals and calories to support physical and mental growth and developments.  The people that were living in extreme poverty in 1981 have doubled from 200 million people to 400 million people in 2005. About 75 percent of the world’s poor people live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihood.

Sources: http://www.bread.org/hunger/global/  http://www.bread.org/hunger/global/facts.html