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According to the World Bank statistics as of 2005 to 2008 had estimated that there was an estimated 1,345 million people under poverty in developing countries who live on a $1.25 a day or less.
This table is utilized to calculate this number
| Region | % in $1.25 a day poverty | Population (millions) | Pop. in $1 a day poverty (millions) |
| East Asia and Pacific | 16.8 | 1,884 | 316 |
| Latin America and the Caribbean | 8.2 | 550 | 45 |
| South Asia | 40.4 | 1,476 | 596 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 50.9 | 763 | 388 |
| Total Developing countries | 28,8 | 4673 | 1345 |
| Europe and Central Asia | 0.04 | 473 | 17 |
| Middle East and North Africa | 0.04 | 305 | 11 |
| Total | 5451 | 1372 |
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This is a photograph of chronically undernourished people taken by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters featured in an article of the guardian. According to the UN report that is making strives to lowering the global goals of food hunger by 2015.
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According to Global Issues article there are multiple inter-related issues of hunger, which are related to economics and other factors that are the cause of poverty. These contributing factors include land rights and ownership, diversion of land use to non-productive use, increasing emphasis on export-oriented agriculture, inefficient agricultural practices, war, famine, drought, over-fishing, poor crop yields, etc.
Solving World Hunger
There is a belief of a possibility of decreasing the amount of people who are going hungry by providing/growing more food etc. But it does not stop poverty which leads to poverty in the first place. That being said hunger can be gradually decreased in the long run if poverty is taken out of the equation by the government placing people in jobs that they can provide more food than opposed to barely one meal to their whole family.
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The overall majority of people struggling from hunger live in developing countries with a number of (827 million), where an estimated 14.3% are thought to be undernourished.
Africa holds the highest rate of hunger having one in four people (24.8%) who are currently undernourished. The MDG also know as Millennium Developmental Goals indicate that south-east Asia have the most rapid progress. The prevalence of undernourished has fallen from 31.1% in 1990-92 to an estimated 107% today.
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