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Furthermore, young people constitute an important and growing demographic cohort, particularly in food-insecure countries. Forty- two percent of the world's people are under 25 years of age, and the global population of adolescents and young adults, at 1.2 billion, is the largest in history.
About 735 million people worldwide faced chronic hunger in 2022, a figure much higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic and which threatens progress towards a global goal to end hunger by 2030 ...
This table does not represent the number of people who "went to bed hungry today." The below is a list of countries by percentage of population with undernourishment , as defined by the United Nations World Food Programme and the FAO in its "The State of Food Insecurity in the World" 2009 report.
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with lowest economic class based on the World Bank's international poverty lines of $2.15 and $3.65 a day Country Region World Bank Income group (2024) Extremely poor: Less than $2.15 a day Moderately poor: $2.15 to less than $3.65 a day Not extremely or moderately poor: $3.65 or above a day Afghanistan: South Asia Low income
The following list ranks countries by the share of population with access to financial services.Access to financial services is defined as the share of the adult population (population ages 15+) with an account ownership at a financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider.
In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic "may add between 83 and 132 million people to the total number of undernourished in the world by the end of 2020 depending on the economic growth scenario". [37] The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown has placed a huge amount of pressure on agricultural production, disrupted global value and supply chain.
Earth has a human population of over 8 billion as of 2024, with an overall population density of 50 people per km 2 (130 per sq. mile). Nearly 60% of the world's population lives in Asia, with more than 2.8 billion in the countries of India and China combined. The percentage shares of China, India and rest of South Asia of the world population ...