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U.N. reports about 200 million fewer hungry people than in 1990

by Rick Gladstone

The number of hungry people globally has declined from about one billion 25 years ago to about 795 million today, or about one person out of every nine, despite a surge in population growth, the United Nations reported Wednesday.

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