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Roshni weighs 6.3 lbs.-- her weight should be more like 10 lbs. About 60% children in India's Madhya Pradesh state are malnourished. Photo: BBC

The soaring price of food throughout the world in 2007-08 has dramatically increased hunger  throughout the world. Roshni is an Indian child who lives in Madhya Pradesh state. Roshni weighs 6.3 lbs.-- her weight should be more like 10 lbs. About 60 percent of children in Madhya Pradesh state are malnourished. Photo: BBC

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This part of the Hunger Notes website enables you to learn make a free (to you) contribution to assist hungry people. This hunger quiz  enables you to learn more about hunger by reading essential information on an important aspect of world hunger and answering several questions. When you answer this quiz,  Hunger Notes will make a donation to assist people in crisis--see below for donation specifics.

Hunger quiz: How many hungry people are there in the world? What percentage of the world's population is hungry?

1. How many people are there in the world?  (Round to the nearest billion.  To find the answer to this, type 'world population' into a search engine.)

  • 7 billion
  • 6 billion
  • 5 billion
2. What is the number of hungry people in the world? (Round to the nearest number below.)  See the answer at Hunger Notes World Hunger Facts.)
  • 1 billion
  • 800 million
  • 700 million
3. What percentage of the world's population is hungry?
  • 6.25 percent--1/16th of the world's population
  • 14.3 percent--1/7th of the world's population
  • 25 percent--1/4th of the world's population

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