The world’s worst - ​ affected regions were southern Asia, where 562 million people suffer from famine (49 percent of the population); Africa, with 216 million (47.8 percent of the population); the Near East and North Africa, with 73 million (33.1 percent of the population); and Latin America and the Caribbean, with 108 million (25.2 percent of the population). These figures do not include almost another billion persons who suffer from malnutrition.
मानव अधिकारों पर विश्‍व सम्मेलन (अंग्रेज़ी), संयुक्‍त राष्ट्र का एक समाचार - पत्र पुष्टि करता है कि आज संसार की कम - से - कम आधी जनसंख्या मानव अधिकारों के अतिक्रमण से पीड़ित है ।