Essentials of Ecology

SUPPLEMENT 3 S17

0%–5%

5%–20%

20%–35%

>35%

India

Democratic Republic

of the Congo

Countries with the Most Undernourished People

Percentage of

population

undernourished,

2005

Bangladesh

China

221 million

35.5 million

42 million

142 million

Figure 13 World hunger shown as a percentage of
population suffering from chronic hunger and mal-
nutrition in 2005. (Data from Food and Agriculture
Organization, United Nations)

Data and Map Analysis

1. List the continents in order from the highest per-
   centage of undernourished people to the lowest
   such percentage. (See Figure 1 on pp. S10–S11
   for country and continent names.)


2. On which continent is the largest block of coun-
   tries that suffer the highest levels of undernour-
   ishment? List five of these countries.