UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation finds Sub-Saharan malnutrition is now worse than 10 years ago

5.01.15pm GMT Tue 22nd Nov 2005

Children in Africa

According to today's UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) report nearly 6 million children die each year from hunger and malnutrition and one in three people in sub-Saharan Africa is malnourished. The report found that malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa is now actually worse than it was in the 1990s, with the number of malnourished people totalling over 200 million.

The report shows that world is falling behind on meeting its Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium Development Goals were a set of goals that amongst other aims would have led to massive reductions in hunger by 2015.

Nearly one in seven people worldwide suffer from undernourishment - close to the combined population of the EU, US and Japan. Three quarters of that number live in rural areas of developing countries. Developing countries have 815 million undernourished people, compared with 28 million in semi-developed countries and 9 million in developed countries.

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Read the full report here