RABAT, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Some 1.2 million people suffer from undernourishment in Morocco, which represents 3.5 percent of the total population, local media reported on Sunday.
Citing the United Nations report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, the Moroccan daily L'Economiste said undernourishment has significantly declined in the kingdom.
Morocco contains the least proportion of undernourished in North Africa, followed by Egypt 4.5 percent, Algeria 4.6, Tunisia by five percent and Sudan by 25.6.
After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger appears to be on the rise, affecting 11 percent of the global population, the report indicates.
The estimated number of undernourished people worldwide has increased from 777 million in 2015 to 815 million in 2016, it underlines.
