Total Undernourished in total population . REGION population Number of people Percentage SUBREGION 1996 1995/97 of population Country (millions) (millions) 1995/97 . DEVELOPING WORLD 4428.2 791.5 18 ASIA AND PACIFIC 3047.8 525.5 17 EAST ASIA 1,309.2 176.8 14 China (3) 1,238.8 164,4 13 Korea, DPR (1) 22.6 10.8 48 Korea, Rep (5) 45.3 0.4 1 Mongolia (1) 2.5 1.2 48 OCEANIA 4.4 1.1 24 Papua New Guinea (2) 4.4 1.1 24 SOUTHEAST ASIA 483.6 63.7 13 Cambodia (1) 10.2 3.4 33 Indonesia(3) 200.4 11.5 6 Laos (2) 4.9 1.6 33 Malaysia (5) 20.5 0.4 2 Myanmar (3) 43.4 2.8 7 Philippines (2) 69.9 15.6 22 Thailand (2) 59.2 14.3 24 Viet Nam (3) 75.1 14.1 19 SOUTH ASIA 1250.6 283.9 23 Bangladesh (1) 120.6 44.0 37 India (2) 950.0 204.4 22 Nepal (2) 21.8 4.6 21 Pakistan (3) 140.1 26.3 19 Sri Lanka (2) 18.1 4.6 25 LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN 481.3 53.4 11 NORTH AMERICA 92.7 5.1 6 Mexico (3) 92.7 5.1 6 CARIBBEAN 30.5 9.3 31 Cuba (3) 11.0 2.1 19 Dominican Rep (2) 8.0 2.1 26 Haiti (1) 7.7 4.7 61 Jamaica (3) 2.5 0.3 11 Trinidad & Tobago (3) 1.3 0.1 11 CENTRAL AMERICA 32.8 5.6 17 Costa Rica (3) 3.7 0.2 7 El Salvador (3) 5.8 0.6 10 Guatemala (3) 10.2 1.7 17 Honduras (2) 5.8 1.2 21 Nicaragua (2) 4.6 1.4 31 Panama (3) 2.7 0.5 17 SOUTH AMERICA 325.3 33.3 10 Argentina (5) 35.2 0.5 1 Bolivia (2) 7.6 1.8 23 Brazil (3) 161.5 16.2 10 Chile (3) 14.4 0.7 5 Colombia (3) 39.3 4.9 12 Ecuador (3) 11.7 0.6 5 Guyana (3) 0.8 0.1 16 Paraguay (3) 5.0 0.6 13 Peru (3) 23.9 4.6 19 Suriname (3) 0.4 0.0 9 Uruguay (4) 3.2 0.1 4 Venezuela (3) 22.3 3.3 15 NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 360.2 32.9 9 NEAR EAST 227.4 27.5 12 Afghanistan (1) 20.3 12.7 62 Iran (3) 63.5 3.7 6 Iraq (3) 20.6 3.2 15 Jordan (4) 4.4 0.1 3 Kuwait (4) 1.7 0.1 3 Lebanon (5) 3.1 0.1 2 Saudi Arabia (4) 18.9 0.7 4 Syrian Arab Rep (5) 14.6 0.2 1 Turkey (5) 62.3 1.0 2 United Arab Emirates(5) 2.3 0.0 1 Yemen (1) 15.7 5.7 37 NORTH AFRICA 132.8 5.4 4 Algeria (3) 28.7 1.5 5 Egypt (4) 63.5 2.5 4 Lybian Arab Jamahiriya(5) 5.1 0.0 1 Morocco (3) 26.4 1.4 5 Tunisia (5) 9.1 0.1 1 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 539.3 179.6 33 CENTRAL AFRICA 74.3 35.6 48 Cameroon (2) 13.6 4.3 32 Central African Republic (1) 3.4 1.4 42 Chad (1) 6.9 3.1 46 Congo, Dem Rep (1) 46.7 25.8 55 Congo, Rep (2) 2.6 0.9 34 Gabon (3) 1.1 0.1 8 EAST AFRICA 185.7 77.9 42 Burundi (1) 6.3 4.0 63 Eritrea (1) 3.3 2.2 67 Ethiopia (1) 56.8 28.7 51 Kenya (1) 27.8 11.4 41 Rwanda (1) 5.6 2.1 37 Somalia (1) 8.5 6.2 73 Sudan (2) 27.2 5.5 20 Tanzania, United Rep(1) 30.7 12.3 40 Uganda (2) 19.5 5.5 28 SOUTHERN AFRICA 79.8 35.0 44 Angola (1) 11.3 4.9 43 Botswana (2) 1.5 0.4 25 Lesotho (2) 2.0 0.6 28 Madagascar (1) 14.2 5.6 39 Malawi (1) 9.9 3.7 37 Mauritius (3) 1.1 0.1 6 Mozambique (1) 12.9 11.3 63 Namibia (2) 1.6 0.5 30 Swaziland (3) 0.9 0.1 14 Zambia (1) 8.4 3.7 45 Zimbabwe (1) 11.0 4.3 39 WEST AFRICA 199.5 31.1 16 Benin (3) 5.5 0.8 18 Burkina Faso (2) 10.7 3.2 30 Cote d'Ivoire (3) 13.8 2.0 15 Gambia (2) 1.2 0.3 25 Ghana (3) 18.2 2.0 11 Guinea (2) 7.3 2.3 31 Liberia (1) 2.2 0.9 42 Mali (2) 10.2 2.9 29 Mauritania (3) 2.4 0.3 13 Niger (1) 9.5 3.6 39 Nigeria (3) 101.4 8.3 8 Senegal (3) 8.6 1.5 17 Sierra Leone (1) 4.3 1.8 43 Togo (2) 4.2 1.0 23 NOTES: GENERAL Figure in brackets ( ) denotes prevalence category, i.e. proportion of the population undernourished in 1995/97. Countries in bold are those with a population of 40 million people or more NOTE: NA Separated figures for Eritrea and Ethiopia are not available prior to 1995/97 Category (1) >35% Very high (2) 20-34% Moderately high (3) 5-19% Moderately low : (4) 2.5-4% Very low (5) <2.5% Extremely low SOURCES Total population: UN World Population Prospects, 1998 Revision Undernourished in total population: FAO estimates Source: UN Food and Agriculture Organization
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