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  Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

5    The percentage point increase from 2008 to 2009 in the proportion of employed people in the developing world living in extreme poverty was 5.

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830 million    The number of undernourished people in developing regions was 830 million from 2005-2007.

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1 in 4    About 1 in 4 children under five in the developing world were underweight in 2008.

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2    In developing regions, rural children are nearly two times as likely to be underweight as urban children.

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19   In South Asia, 19 per cent of children under five are wasted, based on survey data from 2003 to 2009.

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1 in 3   One in three children under five years old in the developing world are stunted, based on survey data from 2003 to 2009.

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4 in 10   More than 4 in 10 children were underweight in South Asia, based on survey data from 2003 to 2009.

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1/3    In India, underweight prevalence in the richest 20 per cent of households decreased by about a third between 1990 and 2008.

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1.5    In developing countries, rural children are 1.5 times more likely to be stunted than urban children.

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129 million    The number of under-fives in developing regions who are underweight for their age is 129 million.

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19 million    The number of infants in developing countries who are born with low birthweight is 19 million.

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148 million     In 2007, 148 million children under age five in the developing world were underweight for their age.

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5   The prevalence of underweight children under-five in the developing world has declined

by 5 percentage points between 1990 and 2006.

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1 in 4   Around 1 in 4 children under five in the developing world are underweight
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1 in 2   Approximately 1 in 2 underweight children in the developing world live in South Asia
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980 million   The number of people living in developing countries living on less than $1 a day
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16%   The proportion of infants in developing countries who are born weighing less than 2,500 grams
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20%   The proportion of decline of children who are underweight globally
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38 million   The number of newborns who are not protected from iodine deficiency
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1 of 3   The proportion of children under five in developing countries who are stunted
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4 times   The increase in the proportion of children fully protected with two doses
of vitaminA
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40%   The proportion of infants in the developing world who are exclusively breastfed for the first six months
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14.1%   The proportion of people living on less than $1 a day in Eastern Asia in 2002 - down from 33.0% in 1990
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824 million   The number of people in the developing world affected by chronic hunger in 2003
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