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Health > Hunger and malnutrition > Undernourished population: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Number of people in the country who subsist on less than the required nutritional amounts per day.

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 India 213.8 million 2012
2 China 158 million 2012
3 Ethiopia 32.1 million 2012
4 Pakistan 31 million 2012
5 Bangladesh 24.8 million 2012
6 Indonesia 22.3 million 2012
7 Tanzania 15.7 million 2012
8 Philippines 15.6 million 2012
9 Brazil 13.6 million 2012
10 Nigeria 12.1 million 2012
11 Kenya 11 million 2012
12 Uganda 10.7 million 2012
13 Mozambique 9 million 2012
14 Iraq 8.8 million 2012
=15 Yemen 7.4 million 2012
=15 Vietnam 7.4 million 2012
=17 Madagascar 6 million 2012
=17 Zambia 6 million 2012
19 Burundi 5.9 million 2012
=20 Colombia 5.1 million 2012
=20 Haiti 5.1 million 2012
22 Nepal 5 million 2012
23 Angola 4.9 million 2012
24 Sri Lanka 4.8 million 2012
25 Guatemala 4.6 million 2012
26 Burkina Faso 4.4 million 2012
27 Cote d'Ivoire 4.2 million 2012
=28 Thailand 4 million 2012
=28 Zimbabwe 4 million 2012
30 Iran 3.7 million 2010
=31 Peru 3.5 million 2012
=31 Chad 3.5 million 2012
=33 Rwanda 3.4 million 2012
=33 Eritrea 3.4 million 2012
35 Malawi 3.2 million 2012
36 Senegal 2.8 million 2012
37 Cameroon 2.7 million 2012
38 Ecuador 2.4 million 2012
39 Niger 2.3 million 2012
=40 Cambodia 2.2 million 2012
=40 Bolivia 2.2 million 2012
=40 South Africa 2.2 million 1998
43 Tajikistan 2.1 million 2012
44 Sierra Leone 1.8 million 2012
=45 Laos 1.7 million 2012
=45 Morocco 1.7 million 2011
=45 Algeria 1.7 million 2004
=48 Dominican Republic 1.6 million 2012
=48 Guinea 1.6 million 2012
=48 Uzbekistan 1.6 million 2012
=51 Paraguay 1.5 million 2012
=51 Venezuela 1.5 million 2008
=53 Palestine 1.4 million 2012
=53 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1.4 million 2012
=53 Ghana 1.4 million 2009
=56 Central African Republic 1.3 million 2012
=56 Syria 1.3 million 2012
=56 Nicaragua 1.3 million 2012
=59 Liberia 1.2 million 2012
=59 Mali 1.2 million 2012
=59 Kazakhstan 1.2 million 2001
62 Togo 1 million 2012
63 Chile 0.8 million 1999
=64 Namibia 0.7 million 2012
=64 Honduras 0.7 million 2012
=64 El Salvador 0.7 million 2012
=67 Benin 0.6 million 2012
=67 Mongolia 0.6 million 2012
=67 Azerbaijan 0.6 million 2002
=67 Cuba 0.6 million 1999
=71 Comoros 0.5 million 2012
=71 Botswana 0.5 million 2012
=71 East Timor 0.5 million 2012
=74 Costa Rica 0.4 million 2012
=74 Swaziland 0.4 million 2012
=76 Kyrgyzstan 0.3 million 2012
=76 Gambia 0.3 million 2012
=76 Lesotho 0.3 million 2012
=76 Mauritania 0.3 million 2012
=76 Panama 0.3 million 2012
=76 Turkmenistan 0.3 million 2007
=76 Jordan 0.3 million 2001
=83 Djibouti 0.2 million 2012
=83 Uruguay 0.2 million 2012
=83 Guinea-Bissau 0.2 million 2012
=83 Jamaica 0.2 million 2012
=83 Armenia 0.2 million 2006
=88 Solomon Islands 0.1 million 2012
=88 Gabon 0.1 million 2012
=88 Trinidad and Tobago 0.1 million 2012
=88 Suriname 0.1 million 2012
=88 Mauritius 0.1 million 2012
=88 Kuwait 0.1 million 1995
=94 Guyana 0.0 2012
=94 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0 2012
=94 Seychelles 0.0 2012
=94 Grenada 0.0 2012
=94 Kiribati 0.0 2012
=94 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0 2012
=94 Saint Lucia 0.0 2012
=94 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0 2012
=94 The Bahamas 0.0 2012
=94 Cape Verde 0.0 2012
=94 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0 2012
=94 Maldives 0.0 2012
=94 Belize 0.0 2012
=94 Vanuatu 0.0 2012
=94 New Caledonia 0.0 2010
=94 Barbados 0.0 2005
=94 Samoa 0.0 2000
=94 Fiji 0.0 1999
=94 Dominica 0.0 1997
=94 Netherlands Antilles 0.0 1994

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