World Food Program, etc. “735 million hungry people”
122 million more than before COVID-19 in 2019
1 in 5 hunger in West Asia, the Caribbean and Africa
2.4 billion people have difficulty accessing daily meals, and 900 million people are anxious about meals
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The number of people suffering from hunger worldwide has increased by 120 million through the COVID-19 pandemic.
In total, it reached 730 million.
This is a report by Cho Tae-hyun.
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Even in refugee camps, where people have fled from extreme hunger and civil war, the most desperate thing is food.
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Five UN agencies, including the World Food Program, estimated the number of people suffering from hunger at 735 million last year.
It reaches 9% of the world’s population.
That number is about 122 million more than before the 2019 COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to conflicts and extreme climate change, which were existing factors, economic shocks such as rising food prices and inflation during the pandemic had a great impact.
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By region, Asia and Latin America decreased.
By contrast, in Western Asia, the Caribbean and Africa, one in five people go hungry.
According to the World Food Program, 2.4 billion people, or 30% of the world’s population, have difficulty accessing daily meals, and 900 million of them suffer from severe meal anxiety.
If this trend continues, it will become more difficult to achieve the United Nations goal of ending hunger and ensuring food security by 2030.
This is YTN Cho Tae-hyun.
Video editing: Song Bo-hyun
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2023-07-13 02:16:00
