To mark World Food Day today, the Food and Agriculture Organisation has launched a website on world hunger, which includes an interactive map that shows trends in the percentage of the world's population experiencing hunger in recent decades. The map is downloadable.
The information is bracketed into two-year periods up until 2006 – 1990-92, 1995-97, 2000-02 and 2004-06.
The interactive also provides country specific "hunger statistics" for each of these periods. Click on a country and population figures, the number of those undernourished, the prevalence of undernourishment and daily dietary energy supply pop up.
A handy resource and easy to use. Hopefully more data will be added in the future.
Earlier this week, the UN organisation published its annual report on world hunger.
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