25,000 people (adults and children) die every day from hunger and related causes; The number of undernourished people in the world increased by 75 million in 2007 and 40 million in 2008, largely due to higher food prices; 907 million people in developing countries alone are hungry; Asia and the Pacific region are home to over half the world’s population and nearly two thirds of the world’s hungry people; More than 60 percent of chronically hungry people are women; 65 percent of the world's hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia. More than 70 percent of the world's 146 million underweight children under age five years live in just 10 countries, with more than 50 per cent located in South Asia alone; One out of four children - roughly 146 million - in developing countries is underweight; Under nutrition contributes to 53 percent of the 9.7 million deaths of children under five each year in developing countries. This means that one child dies every six seconds from malnutrition and related causes.
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