Of these 821 million, 514 million lived in Asia, more than 256 million in Africa, and 42 million in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the same year, WHO data revealed that 45% of mortality among children under five is due to malnutrition, with 3.1 million children dying of hunger per year. Child growth failure (CGF), caused by malnutrition, is expressed as stunting, wasting, and underweight. Yet in 2017, 176 million children were deemed ‘shorter than medical standards presume for their age’. Most LMICs will not reach WHO’s global nutrition targets, the researchers predicted, with ‘even fewer’ expected to meet targets across subnational units.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 04, 2020 14:15 UTC