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The number of undernourished people (million) in 2010–2012 and 2014–2016 (projected). According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), these countries had 5 million or more undernourished people in 2001–2003 and in 2005–2007. [9]
Prenatal malnutrition and early life growth patterns can alter metabolism and physiological patterns and have lifelong effects on the risk of cardiovascular disease. [14] Children who are undernourished are more likely to be short in adulthood, have lower educational achievement and economic status, and give birth to smaller infants. [14]
The undernourishment occurred despite the world's farmers producing enough food to feed around 12 billion people—almost double the current world population. [186] Malnutrition, as of 2010, was the cause of 1.4% of all disability adjusted life years. [187]
There are around 50 million children less than five years old who have protein-energy malnutrition. Of the malnourished children population in the world, 80% live in Asia, 15% in Africa, and 5% in Latin America. It is estimated that the prevalence of acute malnutrition in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States to be 6.1–14%.
Undernourishment: the share of the population with insufficient caloric intake. Child stunting : the share of children under age five who have low height for their age, reflecting chronic undernutrition.
A notable marker of the harsh conditions in Germany was a spike in female mortality, which increased by 11.5% in 1916 and 30% in 1917 when compared to pre-war rates. [2] This rate increased due to malnutrition and disease that was commonplace amongst the German populace.
Life expectancy at birth in Germany. Germany ranked 20th in the world in life expectancy in 2014 with 76.5 years for men and 82.1 years for women.It had a very low infant mortality rate (4.3 per 1,000 live births), and it was eighth place in the number of practicing physicians, at 3.3 per 1,000 people
This is the United Nation's FAO measurement, which is typically referred to as chronic undernourishment (or in older publications, as 'food deprivation,' 'chronic hunger,' or just plain 'hunger.') For the FAO: Hunger or chronic undernourishment exists when "caloric intake is below the minimum dietary energy requirement (MDER). The MDER is the ...