According to a new report by Oxfam, eleven people die every minute of hunger, which also found the number of those facing famine-like conditions has increased by six times over the past year, Report informs.
Published on Friday, “The Hunger Virus Multiplies” report said the death toll from famine outpaces that of COVID-19, which kills about seven people per minute.
“The statistics are staggering, but we must remember that these figures are made up of individual people facing unimaginable suffering. Even one person is too many,” said Abby Maxman, Oxfam America’s president and chief executive officer.
According to the charity, 155 million people worldwide now live at crisis levels of food insecurity or worse – some 20 million more than last year. About two-thirds of them face hunger because their country is in military conflict.