(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121009-hungry-da.photoblog900.jpg)Rafiq Maqbool / APMalnourished children eat a meal at the Apanalaya center, an organization working for the betterment of slum children, in Mumbai, India on Oct. 9, 2012. The United Nations now says its 2009 headline-grabbing announcement that 1 billion people in the world were hungry was off-target and that the number is actually more like 870 million.One in eight of world population going hungry: UN
Reuters reports — One out of every eight people in the world is chronically undernourished (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49339106), the United Nations' food agencies said on Tuesday, warning that progress to reduce hunger has slowed since 2007/08 when high food prices sparked riots in several poor countries.
In their latest report on food insecurity, the UN agencies estimated that 868 million people were suffering hunger in 2010-2012, or about 12.5 percent of the world's population, down more sharply than previously estimated from about 1 billion, or 18.6 percent in 1990-92.
The new figures are lower than the last estimates for recent years that pegged the number of hungry people at 925 million in 2010 and 1.02 billion in 2009.
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