FIGURE 1.14 Global map of undernourishment, using data from 2007. This map is based on 2007 data (the only data presently available), before the global recession (not yet reflected in 2007 data) put many people back into a state of hunger. What shows here is that the proportion of people suffering from undernourishment—the lack of adequate nutrition to meet their daily needs—had declined in the developing world, most notably in India, over the past several years. However, hundreds of millions of people remain affected by chronic hunger. As you can see from the map, those who are the most affected are people in much of sub-Saharan Africa, parts of South Asia, Mongolia, North Korea, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Bolivia, and Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean.