World hunger is down by 200 million since 1990

Soy farmers in Kenya
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Despite the world's population growth, global hunger has declined in the last 25 years, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday.

In 1990, about one billion people worldwide were declared hungry, compared with 795 million — about one in every nine people — today. The U.N. also found that of the 129 nations it monitored, 72 countries had met the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target of halving their percentages of hungry people.

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Meghan DeMaria

Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.