The Facts
- The World Banks latest estimates show that 1.4 billion people in developing countries were living in extreme poverty in 2005.
- Recent increases in the price of food have had a direct and adverse effect on the poor and are expected to push many more people - an estimated 100 million - into absolute poverty.
- the proportion of children under five who are undernourished declined from 33% in 1990 to 26% in 2006. However by 2006, the number of children in developing countries who were underweight still exceeded 140 million.
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Where do we Stand
- The MDG target of cutting in half the proportion of people in the developing world living on less then $1 a day by 2010 remains within reach.
- New estimates released by the World Bank in august 2008 show that the number of people in the developing world living in extreme poverty may be higher then previously thought
- Even though the proportion of people worldwide suffering from malnutrition and hunger has fallen since the early 1990's, the number of people lacking food access has risen.
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