FAO statistics number of hungry 1969-2006
June 2010, FAO site/page http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/ said that today with 1.02 billion hungry, “these are more hungry people than at any time since 1970” when started keeping comparable statistics. Also note # of hungry going up from 2000 to 2004/06, BEFORE the “crisis” 08. Number and percentage of undernourished persons 2004-2006:873million (13%) 2000-2002:857million (14%) 1995-1997:825million (14%) 1990-1992:845million (16%) 1979-1981:853million (19%) 1969-1971:878million (24%) [THEN on 10.15.12 at the FAO hunger page ( http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/) these numbers appear. They are completely different than those above. Note that it leaves out the mid nineties, which in the above numbers is the lowest at 825 million] Number and percentage of undernourished persons 2010-2012 868 million (12%) 2007-2009 867 million (13%) 2004-2006 898 million (14%) 1991-2001 919 million (15%) 1990-1992 1000 million (19%)
FAO http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/; accessed June 15, 2010 And http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/ accessed October 15, 2012