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A child dies from hunger every 10 seconds
Poor nutrition and hunger is responsible for the death of 3.1 million children a year. That’s nearly half of all deaths in children under the age of 5. The children die because their bodies lack basic nutrients.

Globally, 822 million people suffer from undernourishment.

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GLOBAL HUNGER CRISIS IN 2023
After steadily declining for a decade, world hunger is on the rise, affecting nearly 10% of people globally. From 2019 to 2022, the number of undernourished people grew by as many as 150 million, a crisis driven largely by conflict, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Climate change will increase food insecurity
24% of the world population live in areas of food insecurity. 9% in areas of severe food insecurity. These numbers could very well go up as climate change will increasingly affect global food systems. Falling food production is a likely consequence of higher CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, higher temperatures and increased water scarcity.
“For the world’s hungry and undernourished people, climate change is an increasingly relevant threat multiplier”.

- Global Hunger Index.

Climate change needs to be controlled to avoid increased hunger and undernutrition in the future.

Climate change already causing hunger
In 2017, over 20 million people in the African countries of Ethiopia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Kenya experienced acute food insecurity as a consequence of climate change.

While 822 million people suffer from undernourishment, about a third of all food for human consumption is lost or wasted.

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Hunger statistics show progress. But it’s fading.
The number of people affected by hunger has decreased by 189 million people since 1990. But in recent years the positive development has stopped. Since 2015, we have seen an increase in hungry people globally every year.

• 1990: 1011 million

• 1995: 989 million

• 2000: 900 million

• 2005: 945 million

• 2010: 821 million

• 2015: 784 million

• 2016: 804 million

• 2017: 821 million

• 2018: 822 million

It will be a huge challenge to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030.