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Facts and Statistics About World Hunger

  • â…“ of the food produced around the world is never consumed.

  • Every 10 seconds a child dies from hunger-related diseases.

  • Hunger kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.

  • 60% of the world’s hungry are women.

  • Poor nutrition causes 45% of deaths in children under the age of five.

 

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