Nearly 1 billion people will go to bed hungry tonight. Fact #1 Source

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• 805 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. This number is down more than 100 million over the last decade, and 209 million lower than in 1990–92. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
• One in every nine people on our planet go to bed hungry each night. FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
  
• Hunger kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
  
• The vast majority of hungry people (791 million) live in developing countries, where 13.5 percent of the population is chronically undernourished. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
  
• In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than one in four people remain chronically undernourished, while Asia, the world’s most populous region, is also home to the majority of the hungry – 526 million people. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
  
• Price and income swings can significantly affect the poor and hungry. When prices rise, consumers often shift to cheaper, less-nutritious foods, heightening the risks of micronutrient deficiencies and other forms of malnutrition, which can have long-term adverse effects on people’s health, development and productivity. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
  
• Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children each year. Source: The Lancet, Series on Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2013
  
• One out of six children — roughly 101 million — in developing countries is underweight. Source: UNICEF, Improving Child Nutrition, 2013
  
• One in four of the world’s children are stunted — an indicator of chronic malnutrition and calculated by comparing the height-for-age of a child with a reference population of well nourished and healthy children. In developing countries the proportion rises to one in three. Source: UNICEF, Improving Child Nutrition, 2013
  
• 80 percent of the world’s stunted children live in just 14 countries. Source: UNICEF, Improving Child Nutrition, 2013
  
• 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone. Source: WFP, Two Minutes to Learn About School Meals 2012
  
• In 2012, there were 57.2 million primary school-aged children not attending school. Of that total, 30.6 million were female. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2014
  
• One study showed that women’s education contributed 43% of the reduction in child malnutrition over time, while food availability accounted for 26%. Source: FAO, Women in Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for Development
  
• The first 1,000 days of a child’s life, from pregnancy through age two, are critical. A proper diet in this period can protect children from the mental and physical stunting that can result from malnutrition. Source: UN Inter‑agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, Levels & Trends in Child Mortality Report 2011
  
• Malnourished mothers are more likely to give birth to underweight babies. Underweight babies are 20 percent more likely to die before the age of five. Source: UNICEF, Progress for Children: A World Fit for Children
  
• Around half of all pregnant women in developing countries are anemic. This causes approximately 110,000 deaths during childbirth each year. Source: FAO (citing Smith and Haddad), The Female Face of Farming

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