ON A GLOBAL SCALE
FIGURE
2.2. Global Distribution of Hunger
CIESIN 2005
Robinson Projection
Percentage of children age 0–5 underweight, circa 2000
<10.1 10.1–20.0
Unlike the global infant mortality map, this map suggests that children in parts of South Asia are faring as poorly or worse than their counterparts in Africa. In South Asia, areas of highest hunger correspond to some of the areas of highest population density. However, nowhere in the Americas comes close to the highest levels of hunger in the Eastern hemisphere, at least at the levels mapped.
20.1–30.0 30.1–40.0 40.1–50.0 >50.0 no data National Boundary
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