While the overall world index has decreased by 34% since 1990, some 19 countries with a total population of 1.6 billion—are classified as having "alarming" or "extremely alarming" levels of hunger.
In September there was an increase in money flowing into Spain, the first, tentative, sign that the alarming levels of capital flight afflicting the euro area may be leveling off.
"The survey found truly alarming levels of malnutrition," says Challiss McDonough, a WFP spokeswoman.
In parts of the region, the report found "alarming levels of school dropout, repetition and late entry".
That professional isolation — and the moral distress that goes with it — has contributed to alarming levels of professional burnout.
Polls regularly throw up alarming levels of dissatisfaction with the political elite – only 14% of young people feel their voice is heard at all.
The results, the groups said, revealed alarming levels of heavy metals that corresponded directly with metals most commonly found in computers.
An agency study in 1982 found alarming levels of asbestos in ore that Grace had said included harmless amounts of the material, which can cause cancer.
She said: "Consumers will be appalled to learn that ministers have repeatedly failed to take any action to tackle the alarming levels of campylobacter in supermarket chicken.
A two-year survey of tigers (Panthera tigris) in India revealed alarming levels of population decline and cast doubt on previous population estimates.
While most figures suggest improvements in crime levels and greater efforts to ensure police discipline over the past 10 years, few doubt that Rio is still home to alarming levels of killings by police.
