And all that's on the decline.
Yeah, while we should check the numbers, I am pretty sure there were far more poor and starving people 100 years ago, not in total number of course, but in proportion of the actual world population. When is the last time you heard about starvation in China, for example ?
Hunger kills more people than Malaria, HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis combined.
About 925 million people are hungry (that's very roughly 1 in 7 people).
Undernutrition kills 5 million children under the age of 5 each year.
(http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats)