The second United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to end hunger, achieve food security,
and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
The global pandemic is exaggerating world hunger.
Worldwide an additional 70 to 161 million people are likely to have experienced hunger
as a result of the pandemic in 2020.
Numbers of undernourished people in the world include 207 million people in 2014, 650 million
people in 2019, and 720 to 111 million in 2020.
The pandemic will worsen child malnutrition.
22% are 149.2 million.
Children under 5 are stunted.
67% of 45.4 million children under the age of 5 suffer from wasting.
5.7% are 38.9 million children under the age of 5 are overweight as of 2020.
Unfortunately these 2020 estimates do not reflect the impact of the pandemic.
Almost one-third of women of reproductive age globally suffer from anemia, in part due
to nutritional deficiencies.
2.37 billion people are without food or unable to eat a healthy balanced diet on a regular
basis.