Global Malnutrition Crisis: Undernourishment & Overnourishment Impacts

2. UNDERNOURISHMENT • Approximately 17% of the population of countries with low per capita incoms suffers from undernourishment. • Undernourishment causes rickets, blindness and anaemia due to the lack of iron. • Each year, up to half a million children go blind because their diets lack vitamin A, and around three hundred and fifty million have anaemia due to a lack of iron. OVERNOURISHMENT • Approximately 15% of the population of countries with high per capita incomes (32% in the USA) suffers from overnourishment. • Overnourishment causes obesity. • Approximately two thirds of deaths in the United States are related to over-nourishment. The greatest contrast in the world Malnutrition affects millions of people around the world. It can be as a consequence of both insufficient food (undernourishment) and excessive consumption (overnourishment).

3. Worldwide distribution of the undernourished population % of undernourished population 35% 20 to 34 % 5 to 19 % 2,5 to 4 %  2,5 % No data

4. The distribution of undernourishment in the world between 1990 and 2005 Number of people suffering from undernourishment between 1990 and 1992 (millions) Number of people suffering from undernourishment between 2003 and 2005 (millions) Total: 848 Total: 842 Asia and Pacific Asia and Pacific Latin America and Caribbean Latin America and Caribbean Middle East and North Africa Middle East and North Africa Subsaharian Africa Subsaharian Africa Developed countries Developed countries