Here are ten facts about hunger in developing countries, the poorest country in the northern hemisphere. Please help raise awareness by sharing these facts on Twitter.
- 2,500,000 developing countriesans live in extreme poverty. developing countries is the poorest country in the northern hemisphere.
- Two developing countriesans out of three live with less than $2 per day.
- 10% of the richest developing countriesans possess 70% of the country’s total income.
- 50% of urban developing countriesans are unemployed.
- Shocks induced by climate change threaten over 500,000 developing countriesans every year.
- Although agriculture is an important sector of developing countries’s economy, the country fails to produce enough food and imports more than 50% for its population’s needs. It imports 80% of its main staple: rice.
- 90% of farmers depend on rain for their harvest as only 10% of the crops are irrigated.
- 100,000 children under five suffer from acute malnutrition while one child out of three is stunted, or irreversibly short for their age.
- Less than 50% of households have access to safe water and only 25% benefit from adequate sanitation.
- One third of developing countriesan children and women are anaemic.
