Food security

   Food security refers to the availability of food and one's access to it. A household is considered food-secure when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. According to United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, there is around 925 million hungry people in the world, 13.1 percent, or almost 1 in 7 people are hungry. In other words, there is a lot of people are in food insecurity.

Number of hungry people, 1969-2010

  There is largest amount of hungry people live in Asia and the Pacific countries, around 578 million which is 62.4% of the global hunger population. Second high hunger population, 25.8% comes from Sub-Saharan Africa countries which occupied  239 million hungry people. Other countries such as Latin America and the Caribbean(53 million), near East and North Africa(37 million) and developed countries(19 million).

Number of hungry people in the world 2010