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World debt comparison: The global debt clock. United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger... Every year, authors, journalists, teachers, researchers, schoolchildren and students ask us for statistics about hunger and malnutrition.

United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger...

To help answer these questions, we've compiled a list of useful facts and figures on world hunger. Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That's about one in nine people on earth. The vast majority of the world's hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9 percent of the population is undernourished.

Asia is the continent with the most hungry people - two thirds of the total. The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality - 20 Facts About... Worldometers - real time world statistics.