An additional 265 million live in sub-Saharan Africa while 95 million come from Latin America , the Caribbean , the Near East and North Africa . World Food Programme : One in five of world 's population is now going hungry . Nearly all the world 's undernourished live in developing countries . Number of hungry spiked as the global economic crisis took hold , report says . Calls for greater investment in agriculture to tackle long and short - term hunger .
World Food Programme : One in five of world 's population is now going hungry . Nearly all the world 's undernourished live in developing countries . Number of hungry spiked as the global economic crisis took hold , report says . Calls for greater investment in agriculture to tackle long and short - term hunger .