Global Patterns of Hunger and Undernourishment
The current trends portray a mixed and complex picture of global hunger and undernourishment. Despite a rapidly growing global population, the share of undernourished people has decreased across the planet over the course of the past decades. For instance, the world population has increased by 1.9 billion between 1992 and 2016, but the share of undernourished people has dropped from 18.6 to 10.9 percent [1]. The number of undernourished people has decreased almost by 216 million for the same period [1]. Most of the improvement in fighting malnutrition and reducing hunger was achieved before the 1990s, but since the early 2000s, the rate of improvement in undernourishment ...
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