THE HUNGRIEST COUNTRIES ON EARTH
Most of
the world’s hungry live in developing countries. According to the latest Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics from 2013, there are 842 million
hungry people in the world and 98 percent of them are in developing countries.
An American eats about 4,500 calories on the Thanksgiving gala. But
unfortunately in other poor countries most of the people eat less than half of
that in a single day, and many more are eating much less than that. In the time
span between 2010 to 2012, about 870 million people weren’t able to eat enough
food to satisfy their daily body need of energy.
Most of
the time we all try to sit around in large tables, eating too much, drinking
too much, and avoiding necessary topics in discussion. Well at the same time
people in other parts of the world are starving. There are several metrics for
assessing and describing hunger. This list is arranged by the number of
calories available each day to the average person, the % of a country’s
population that is undernourished; the country’s calorie deficit, and the
Global Hunger Index ranking.
THESE
ARE THE HUNGRIEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD:
1) BURUNDI:
1,670 calories per day;Undernourished:
67.3 percent;Calorie
deficit: 581;GHI
ranking: 78
2) ERITREA: 1,730 calories per day;Undernourished:
61.3 percent;Calorie
deficit: 488;GHI
ranking: 77
3)
ZAMBIA: 1,910
calories per day;Undernourished:
43.1 percent;Calorie deficit: 306;GHI
ranking: 69
4) TIMOR ESTE:
1,920 calories per day;Undernourished:
38.3 percent;Calorie
deficit: 254;GHI
ranking: 75
5)
HAITI: 1,980 calories
per day;Undernourished:
49.8 percent;Calorie
deficit: 431;GHI
ranking: 67
6) PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES:
2,090 calories per day;Undernourished:
31.8 percent;Calorie
deficit: 211;GHI
ranking:
7) SWAZILAND:
2,100 calories per day;Undernourished:
35.8 percent;Calorie
deficit: 262;GHI
ranking: 35
8)
COMOROS: 2,110
calories per day;Undernourished:
65.3 percent;Calorie
deficit: 655;GHI
ranking: 76
9)
MADAGASCAR: 2,160
calories per day;Undernourished:
27.2 percent;
Calorie
deficit: 176;GHI
ranking: 70
10) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO:
2,170 calories per day;Undernourished:
33 percent;Calorie
deficit: 234;GHI
ranking: 61
11) MOZAMBIQUE: 2,180 calories per day;Undernourished:
36.8 percent;Calorie
deficit: 269;GHI
ranking: 64
12) KENYA: 2,180 calories per day;Undernourished:
25.8 percent;Calorie
deficit: 166;GHI
ranking: 51 (tied with North Korea)
13) TANZANIA: 2,210 calories per day;Undernourished:
33 percent;Calorie
deficit: 221;GHI
ranking: 62
14)
RWANDA: 2,240
calories per day;Undernourished:
29.7 percent;Calorie
deficit: 201;GHI
ranking: 41
15)
NORTH KOREA: 2,240 calories per day;Undernourished:
31 percent;Calorie
deficit: 238;GHI
ranking: 51 (tied with Kenya)
The
other countries not included in this list but rank below 50 in the Global
Hunger Index are: Sudan, Chad, Yemen, Ethiopia, Central African Republic,
Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, India, Niger, Djibouti, Bangladesh, Pakistan,
Uganda, Angola, Laos, Namibia, Liberia.
