The majority of hunger deaths are caused by chronic malnutrition. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five.įamine and wars cause about 10% of hunger deaths, although these tend to be the ones you hear about most often. This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000 twenty years ago. That's roughly 100 times as many as those who actually die from these causes each year.Ībout 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. It is estimated that one billion people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition. Your click on the "Give Free Food" button funds food for the hungry, paid for by site sponsors whose ads appear after you click and provided to people in need around the world through the efforts of - Mercy Corps and - America's Second Harvest.
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