More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!
Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?