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There are approximately 820 million chronically hungry people in the world.

More than one-third of the world's hungry are in India.

  • Over 7000 Indians die of hunger every day.

  • During 2006-2007, malnutrition contributed to seven million Indian children dying, nearly two million before the age of one.
  • 30% of newborn are of low birth weight, 56% of married women are anemic and 79% of children age 6-35 months are anemic.

One-third of the worlds hungry are in sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the remainder is in "pockets" of hunger in Latin America and the rest of Asia.

The lowest daily calorie consuming countries are reported as: Democratic Republic of the Congo (1,500), Eritrea (1,530), Burundi (1,630), Comoros (1,800), Ethiopia (1,810), Haiti (1,840), Angola (1,880), Zambia (1,890), Central Africa (1,900), Sierra Leone (1,910).

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