This ratio indicates the existence of a paradoxical crisis at the global level: hundreds of millions of people (about 673 million) are hungry, while billions (almost 2.9 billion) are overeating.
Overnutrition and malnutrition have steadily overtaken malnutrition and hunger as the most important global health problems. Nevertheless, food insecurity is still the leading cause of an estimated 9 million deaths each year. The regions of sub-Saharan Africa (Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Somalia, etc.) remain the most vulnerable to hunger. In the last five years, an alarming trend has also been observed in South Asia, where about half of child deaths are related to malnutrition. Bangladesh currently has one of the highest rates of hunger-related mortality (56.4 deaths per 100,000 population).
These data confirm the fact that hunger is directly linked to poverty, social inequality, poor economic development, political instability and armed conflict.
