WUNRN
Hunger &
Nutrition Commitment Index 2013 Report
Ranking governments on their political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition
Direct Link to Full 137-Page Report,
Released June 2014:
Globally, Levels of Hunger and
Undernutrition Remain Unacceptably High
Hunger and undernutrition are among the most persistent global development challenges. At the global level, insufficient progress has been made towards achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1. Global numbers of undernourished people remain very high despite some improvements over the last year. A total of 842 million people in 2011–13, or around one in eight people in the world, were estimated to be suffering from chronic hunger, regularly not getting enough food to conduct an active life (FAO 2013). This figure is 26 million lower than reported for 2010–12 (FAO 2012). Many countries in Africa still report high or very high child stunting prevalence rates, of 30 per cent or more. The worst-affected countries are concentrated in Eastern Africa and the Sahel. A few countries in South Asia also report stunting rates of up to 50 per cent (FAO 2013). Undernutrition contributed to 45 per cent or 3.1 million deaths of children under five in 2011 (Black, Alderman et al. 2013).
