One in every nine persons in the world goes hungry: UN State of Food Insecurity Report Asia houses 526 million of the 805 million chronically undernourished people in the world The good news is that the world today is producing enough to support the projected population of nine billion people by 2050. But the bad news is that still 805 million people—or one in every nine people—are hungry in the world, says a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP). The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI 2014) shows that the number of hungry people has declined globally by more than 100 million over the last decade and by more than 200 million since 1990-92. But the vast majority of the hungry people “live in developing regions… (Where) 13.5 per cent of the overall population, remain chronically undernourished in these regions, down from 23.4 percent in 1990–92”. (see chart ‘Changing distribution of world hunger, 1990-2014’)

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