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Interesting Facts

• 46.8% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa survive with less than $1.25 USD per day, based on the 2011 poverty report. (The World Bank Poverty Headcount Ratio)
• The population in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to more than double (2.3x representing 2.1 billion people) by the mid century and more than quadruple (4.2x representing 3.8 billion people) against the population in 2013 (.9 billion people). (UN Population World Population 2012 Wall Chart)
• Between 2012-14, around 804 million people were estimated to be chronically undernourished around the world, and 214 million of them are located in Sub-Saharan Africa. (FAO The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014)
• “Despite overall progress, marked differences across regions persist. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence of undernourishment, with only modest progress in recent years.” (FAO The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014)
• “The greatest food security challenges overall remain in sub-Saharan Africa, which has seen particularly slow progress in improving access to food, with sluggish income growth, high poverty rates and poor infrastructure, which hampers physical and distributional access. Food availability remains low, even though energy and protein supplies have improved.” (FAO The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014)
• “Sub-Saharan Africa has become home to more than a quarter of the world’s undernourished people, owing to an increase of 38 million in the number of hungry people since 1990–92.” (FAO The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014)
• Between 2012-14 more than one in four people in Sub-Saharan Africa remains chronically undernourished and this number has increased to 38 million people since 1990-92. (FAO The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014)
• “Food availability remains a major element of food insecurity in the poorer regions of the world, notably sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Southern Asia.” (FAO The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014)
• Malawi: 21.8 percent of the population remains undernourished
  Mozambique: 27.9 percent of the population remains undernourished
  Sierra Leone: 25.5 percent of the population remains undernourished
  Swaziland: 26.1 percent of the population remains undernourished
  Ghana: less than 5 percent of the population remains undernourished
  (FAO The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014)