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Jan 12, 2024 · The State of Global Hunger in 2023. Driven by conflict, the climate crisis and economic conditions, 333 million people experienced extreme hunger in 2023. The underlying causes are pervasive poverty and rampant inequality that limit people’s access to food. Women and girls are most affected. The current state of hunger makes our work more ...
Jul 12, 2023 · Latest research shows around 735 million people currently facing hunger, compared to 613 million in 2019. Over 122 million more people are facing hunger in the world since 2019 due to the pandemic and repeated weather shocks and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World ...
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The 2023 GHI score for the world is 18.3, which is considered moderate (for context, the world’s 2015 GHI score was 19.1). Since 2017, the prevalence of undernourishment has been on the rise. The number of undernourished people has climbed from 572 million then to about 735 million today. 2. Hunger levels are highest in south Asia and sub ...
Oct 12, 2023 · At the end of this decade, it estimates there will still be 670 million people facing hunger. Explore the 2023 Global Hunger Index. 2. Hunger levels are highest in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The GHI ranks hunger on four levels: Low, Moderate, Serious, Alarming, and Extremely Alarming.
Apr 25, 2024 · Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries suffered from acute hunger in 2023, with war-torn Gaza as the territory with the largest number of people facing famine, according to the Global Report on ...
Sep 12, 2023 · 12 September 2023 Humanitarian Aid. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday that a historic funding shortfall was forcing it to “drastically” cut rations in most of its operations, potentially pushing an additional 24 million people to the brink of starvation over the next 12 months. With a funding gap of over 60 per cent, WFP ...
Oct 2, 2023 · More than 128,000 people in four countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, Somalia, and South Sudan) face an extreme lack of food and are unable to meet other basic needs, even with emergency coping strategies. Overall, an analysis of acute food insecurity shows a 10% increase in the number of food insecure people (IPC 3+) in 48 countries in 2023 so far.
