Thursday, 4 June 2015

There Are 200 Million Fewer Hungry People Than 25 Years Ago

There Are 200 Million Fewer Hungry People Than 25 Years Ago

So what does it mean to be hungry? That's a question that occurred to us as we read some encouraging news: The world isn't as hungry as it used to be. A U.N. report has noted that 795 million people were hungry in the year 2014. That's a mind-boggling number. But in fact it's 200 million lower than the estimated 1 billion hungry people in 1990. The improvement is especially impressive because the world population has gone up by around 2 billion since the '90s.
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