The estimates of the prevalence of undernourishment of less than 2.5% are open ended values and estimates of the number of undernourished have not been performed.
923m The number of undernourished people in the world, according to a 2007 UN survey.
The number of undernourished people has fallen and electricity consumption has more than doubled.
The volatility in the number of undernourished people points to the deeper problem of vulnerability.
Overall, the number of undernourished people is dropping by 6m a year.
Though the number of undernourished persons had increased since 1990, there were fewer in 2010 than in 2008.
Projections suggest that the number of undernourished people will fall by only 82 million by 2050 if current commitments are met, leaving 766 million people undernourished.
In Asia the number of undernourished people is 525 million, or 17percentt of the population, with the worst hunger found in North Korea, Mongolia, Cambodia and Bangladesh.
The number of undernourished people in the world has fallen since 1990, but only by a fifth, and now stands at about 800m.
The report estimated that the number of undernourished people in the Asia-Pacific region would decline 12 percent from 2009, to 578 million, because of economic growth there.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the number of undernourished people in China fell from 194m in 1990-92 to 142m a decade later.
