Malnutrition causes in 1 year:
  • 1 million children to die before the age of five
  • 50,000 women to die during or soon after childbirth
  • 19 million infants to be born with impaired mental capacity
  • 100,000 infants to be born with preventable physical defects
  • Global cost of malnutrition amounts $19 billion in lost adult work performance and related health expenditure
Source: GAIN


 Poverty
 Malnutrition and poverty are closely linked, because poor people do not have access or cannot afford nutritious food. Africa has more high poverty countries than any other developing country region, but Asia has the most people living in extreme poverty.
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 Malnourished children
 African and Asian countries have the highest rates of malnourished children under 5. Large disparities exist for underweight prevalence between urban and rural children and between children in rich households and poor households in the developing world.
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 Child mortality
 30’000 children a day die before their fifth birthday. Of the 10.5 million child deaths under five every year, almost half occur in Sub-Saharan-Africa.
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 Education for all
 Education prepares children to participate in society and in economy; it is the foundation of sustainable development and poverty alleviation. Malnutrition affects the physical and mental development of a child and thus the capability to learn and concentrate at school.
Almost one in five (18%), of all primary school-age children in the world are not in school.
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