India Child Hunger: 25 Million Children Suffer From Malnutrition And Starvation
"Six days I would eat, then the next six days I wouldn't eat at all," 9-year-old Roshan tells Al Jazeera. The tiny girl grew up on a diet of 600 calories per day, not even half as much as a child her age should receive.
Across India, millions of children like Roshan suffer from starvation -- making malnutrition more common in the Asian country than in sub-Saharan Africa, Al Jazeera reports. Every second a child under the age of 3 is underfed, according to the network.
World Hunger Facts
- 805 million people – or one in nine people in the world – do not have enough to eat.
- 98% of the world’s undernourished people live in developing countries.
- Where is hunger the worst?
- Asia: 525.6 million
- Sub-Saharan Africa: 214 million
- Latin America and the Caribbean: 37 million
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