Hunger Facts

• Hunger and malnutrition is number one risk to health worldwide – greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.*
• 963 MILLION people suffer from hunger on an ongoing daily basis. Hunger emegencies, like you find in the headlines, account for less than 8% of all of hunger’s victims. The number of chronically hungry people has been rising in developing nations, at the rate of nearly 4 million each year. *
• 51.5% of the people in Uganda live on less than $1.25 a day.**
• Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of blindness in children in developing countries.*
• Iron deficiency impedes cognitive development.*
• Zinc deficiency contributes to growth failure and weakened immunity, and results in some 800,000 child deaths per year. *

* World Food Programme, www.wfp.org/hunger/faqs
** Bread for the World Institute