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The State of Food Insecurity in the World

Counting the hungry: latest estimates

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO
Rome, Italy, 2003

Available online at: 
<http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/j0083e/j0083e00.htm>


"........Worldwide, FAO estimates that 842 million people were
undernourished in 1999-2001, the most recent years for which figures
are
available. This includes 10 million in industrialized countries, 34
million
in countries in transition and 798 million in developing countries.

Regionally, only Latin America and the Caribbean had a decline in the
number
of hungry since the mid-1990s.

Only 19 countries, including China, succeeded in reducing the number of
undernourished throughout the 1990s, says the report. "In these
successful
countries, the total number of hungry people fell by over 80 million."

At the other end of the scale are 26 countries where the number of
undernourished people increased by 60 million during the same period,
including countries in transition, where those suffering from hunger
climbed
from 25 million in the mid-1990s to 34 million at the turn of the
century...."