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Number of undernourished people (million) in 2001-2003, according to the FAO, the following countries had 10 million or more undernourished people:

Country Number of Undernourished (million)
India 212.0
China 150.0
Bangladesh 43.1
Democratic Republic of Congo 37.0
Pakistan 35.2
Ethiopia 31.5
Tanzania 16.1
Philippines 15.2
Brazil 14.4
Indonesia 13.8
Vietnam 13.8
Thailand 13.4
Nigeria 11.5

Measuring Poverty

Poverty-stricken people washing their clothes by a road in Mumbai, India. by Antônio Milena/ABr

Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

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http://www.millenniumcampaign.org/site/pp.asp?c=grKVL2NLE&b=185518
One third of deaths - some 18 million people a year or 50,000 per day - are due to poverty-related causes. That's 270 million people since 1990, the majority women and children, roughly equal to the population of the US.

Over 1 billion people live on less than $1 a day with nearly half the world's population (2.8 billion) living on less than $2 a day. (UN HDR, 2003)