What You Need To Know About Hunger In 2012

1. Approximately 925 million people in the world do not eat enough to be healthy. That means that one in every seven people on Earth goes to bed hungry each night. (Source: FAO News Release, 2012) 2. While the number of hungry people has risen, as a percentage of the world population, hunger actually fell from 37 per cent of the population in 1969 to just over 16 per cent of the population in 2010. (Source: FAO, 2010) Click here to know more