Original title: last year, 820 million people worldwide went hungry!
According to Xinhua news agency, the report on world food security and nutrition released by the United Nations at its headquarters in New York on the 15th shows that the number of people suffering from hunger in the world has increased year by year in recent years. By 2018, the number of people facing food shortage in the world had reached 821.6 million.
The 2019 annual report released on the same day said that the proportion of global hunger in the total population has continued to decline in the past few decades, and has basically remained at a level slightly lower than 11% since 2015. However, in absolute terms, the number of people suffering from hunger reached 821.6 million in 2018, which were 811.7 million, 796.5 million and 785.4 million in 2017, 2016 and 2015 respectively.
The report also focuses on the growing global problem of obesity. Obesity kills about 4 million people every year, and every age group faces obesity, the report said. Among them, the school-age group has become a high incidence group of obesity, mainly due to insufficient intake of fruits and vegetables, eating fast food, drinking carbonated drinks and lack of physical exercise.
The report on the state of world food security and nutrition was jointly issued by the food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Children's fund, the World Health Organization, the International Fund for agricultural development and the world food programme.