RP 5th ‘hungry’ in world survey

The Philippines ranked fifth among 55 countries in a recent global hunger survey conducted by Gallup International. It said four in 10 poor Filipinos were going hungry in the last 12 months. In its “Voice of the People” survey, Gallup International said 40 percent of the Filipino respondents were found to have experienced an empty stomach in late 2007 to the present. The Gallup poll interviewed more than 58,600 people between June and early September 2008, and the survey represented the views of more than 1.5 billion global citizens.
The Gallup International survey said 55 percent of respondents in Cameroon have suffered hunger, followed by Pakistan with 53 percent and Nigeria, 48 percent. The poll also found that one-third of the population has not had enough to eat in Bolivia and Guatemala, both with 35 percent, and Ghana, 32 percent. Meril James, the secretary-general of Gallup International, said, ‘It is shocking to see that still so many people don?t have enough to eat even in the most developed regions.”

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