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- 1. 8 Hunger Facts (by July 2013) Nguyen Dang Trang PhD student Ritsumeikan University http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Child_Mortality_Report_2011_Final.pdf
- 2. Introduction
- 3. What is hunger? • A lack of food that can cause illness or death • Daily undernourishment
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- 8. 98 % live in developing countries,
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- 10. Asia and the Pacific 563 million hungry people
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- 12. http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Child_Mortality_Report_2011_Final.pdf Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five
- 13. http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Child_Mortality_Report_2011_Final.pdf 3.1 million children each year
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- 20. 80 % of the world's stunted children live in just 20 countries. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673607616948
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- 22. 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry
- 23. Conclusion
- 24. References 1. Source:State of Food Insecurity in the World,FAO, 2012 2. Source: State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2012 3. Source: State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2012 4. Source: Series on Maternal and Child Nutrition, The Lancet, 2013 5. Source: Global health Observatory, WHO, 2011 6. Source: Prevalence and Trends of Stunting among ... Children, Public Health Nutrition, 2012 7. Source: Maternal and Child Undernutrition: Effective Action at National Level,The Lancet, 2008 8. Source:Two Minutes to Learn About School Meals, WFP, 2012
- 25. Thank you very much!
Editor's Notes
- Every year, authors, journalists, teachers, researchers, schoolchildren and students ask us for statistics about hunger and malnutrition. To help answer these questions, we've compiled a list of useful facts and figures on world hunger.
- Malaria /məˈleriə/: a serious illness caused by being bitten by a mosquito, usually in a hot countryTuberculosis /tʊˌbɜrkjəˈloʊsɪs/: a serious infectious disease affecting your lungs
- Hunger is a lack of food that can cause illness or deathDaily undernourishment is a less visible form of hunger
- This is the hunger map, Where is your country?
- Lets get started now with the fact # 1
- 870 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. This number has fallen by 130 million since 1990, but progress slowed after 2008.
- The vast majority of hungry people (98 percent) live in developing countries, where almost 15% of the population is undernourished.
- Asia and the Pacific have the largest share of the world's hungry people (some 563 million) but the trend is downward.
- Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five - 3.1 million children each year.
- Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five - 3.1 million children each year.
- One out of six children -- roughly 100 million -- in developing countries is underweight.
- One in four of the world's children are stunted. In developing countries the proportion can rise to one in three.
- Nutritious /nuˈtrɪʃəs/: nutritious foods provide the substances that people need in order to be healthy
- 80 percent of the world's stunted children live in just 20 countries.
- 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone.
- Lets fight hunger worldwide with WFP and fighting hunger together.