The medical histories of the dead children of the Shanghai Children’s Welfare Institute, China’s showcase orphanage, read like macabre experiments in human starvation: Ke Yue, a girl, was admitted to the orphanage in November 1989, the month of her birth. There are countries we haven't even heard of, but their fate is so much worse than ours. OUR DATA: We use the most recent data from these primary sources: WHO, World Bank, UNESCO, CIA and individual country databases for global health and causes of death. So in average, there are 2.4 million people die in China each day. Most Popular Today 1 Mitt Romney knocked ... being fed a starvation diet of rice, steamed buns and porridge but little or no meat. Around the world, more than enough food is produced to feed the global population—but more than 690 million people still go hungry. Author Yang Jisheng is determined to change that with his book, Tombstone Starvation, famine, food insecurity, poverty and so many other things. Key facts about global hunger today. The Great Leap Forward was a push by Mao Zedong to change China from a predominantly agrarian (farming) society to a modern, industrial society—in just five years. In a world where we produce enough food to feed everyone, 821 million people – one in nine – still go to bed on an empty stomach each night.Even more – one in three – suffer from some form of malnutrition. First, what is true is that there is less poverty in China today than in the 20 th century, when the country suffered for decades the consequences of Chairman Mao’s Great Leap Forward (1958–1962), widely regarded as the greatest human-made disaster in history, with estimates ranging from 15 to 55 millions of Chinese who died of starvation. Yang also broke down the death toll in … For most of China’s history, famine was just an extreme version of the normal state of affairs. Every day too many men and women across the globe struggle to feed their children a nutritious meal. As recently as the late 1970s, 30 percent of China’s population was undernourished. According to national statistics bureau, about 890 million people died in a year. The results, unfortunately, were catastrophic. We use the CDC, NIH and individual state and county databases for verification and supplementation for USA data. Overall, China had 47 million fewer people because of the Great Famine, according to China’s own official data. It was an impossible goal, of course, but Mao had the power to force the world's largest society to try. The famine that killed up to 45 million people remains a taboo subject in China 50 years on. [4] After steadily declining for a decade, world hunger is on the rise, affecting 8.9 percent of people globally.