UN’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
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Nearly 690 million people, or 8.9% of the world’s population, went hungry in 2019.
It is an increase of 10 million since 2018 and of nearly 60 million since 2014.
It was in accordance with the United Nations' (UN) annual report “The state of food security and nutrition in the world - Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets”.
The report has been prepared by the following 5 UN agencies
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),
In this report China ranked at 2nd place. Japan ranked at the 3rd place.
International Fund For Agricultural Development (IFAD),