Infographic: Hunger Pandemic – By the End of the Year, More Than 250 Million People Will Be on the Brink of Life Due to Food Shortages

While the coronavirus dominates the headlines of all print media and web portals around the world lately, another type of emergency threatens millions of people worldwide, namely food shortages. And while the number of victims from the coronavirus is counted daily, with each day revealing who has tragically succumbed to the virus, those who die from food shortages do not receive that media attention. According to Worldometer, around 12,000 people lose their lives daily due to hunger and diseases related to food shortages, while food is ‘in abundance.’

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Now, adding the coronavirus to this food shortage makes the predictions extremely disturbing. By the end of 2020, according to the Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC 2020), more than 265 million people could be on the brink of starvation, which is double the number from before the coronavirus. This means that normally, around 132 million people are on the brink of starvation in normal times, about whom almost no one ever talks. Thus, 132 million people in ‘normal’ times have nothing to eat.

The Global Report GRFC 2020 shows data on the prevalence of food shortages that have serious impacts on the lives of people around the world. Food shortages or scarcity primarily affect Africa.

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One of the worst-hit countries is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where more than 15 million people live on the brink of starvation.

In the Middle East, more than 43 million people face similar challenges, with Yemen suffering the most in this story, as nearly 16 million people struggle daily with food shortages.

Another problematic area in the Middle East is Afghanistan, where 11.3 million people are in a critical state of acute food insecurity.

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Over half (51 percent) of the analyzed population of Pakistan also faces this problem, which is the highest in all of Asia.

As COVID-19 worsens economic conditions, funding for humanitarian organizations that usually care for the hungry is also decreasing. However, as we see, not very well, as there were more than 130 million even before the crisis. Where all that money goes, where all that food goes is hard to know, but it is certain that it does not end up in the hands of those who need it most.

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