Fewer suffer from hunger in Asia-Pacific
WORLDWIDE, the number of hungry people has dropped to 795 million from more than a billion a quarter-century ago, the United Nations says.
THE proportion of people suffering from hunger in the Asia-Pacific region has fallen by half in the past 25 years.
USING 1990 as a base year, when about 24 per cent of the population in the region was undernourished, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization says the percentage has been cut to 12 per cent.
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