Data Updates

Rural Poverty Report 2001: The Challenge of Ending Rural Poverty of the International Fund for Agricultural Development

United Nations Development Programme:

• Global, Regional, and National Reports
• Human Development Report 2003
• Search the Human Development Indicators for development-related statistics

More than 1.2 million destitute, homeless or orphaned children in India beg on the streets or work up to 18 hours a day in quarries, restaurants and factories. National Catholic Reporter, May 16, 2003

Agriculture in the Global Economy, Bread for the World Institute's 2003 report on the state of world hunger.

International and Domestic facts on hunger and poverty

The FAO’s latest data on world hunger, from the period 1999-2001, is reported in The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2003. “Across the developing world as a whole, an estimated 798 million people were undernourished in1999-2001, only 19 million fewer than during the WSF baseline period [1990-92]”. From these figures, it will take a lot more work to reach the goal of cutting the number of undernourished in half by 2015.

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