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survey, which comes ahead of World Food Day on Monday, found
that 59% of parents surveyed were very concerned about child
hunger and malnutrition in their families, with 46% worried
about finding the money to buy food.
It also found that 37% of parents said their children fail to
receive proper nutrition each day and 21% said their children
have gone hungry in the last month.
The percentage of children going to bed hungry rises to 38% in
low-income countries. In the United States, 18% of respondents
said a child has gone to bed hungry in their home.
"Hunger is a global problem, and it isn't limited to any one
country or part of the globe," Andrew Morely, the president of
World Vision International, said in a statement.
The survey, conducted by Ipsos, polled more than 14,000 people
of all income levels.
Among respondents who said their children went to sleep hungry,
46% cited inflation and the cost of living as the main reason.
The next two most common reasons cited were low household income
(39%) and not enough government focus on ending hunger (25%).
Surging prices have affected economies around the globe due to
factors including pandemic-related disruptions to global supply
chains and the effects of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Persistently high inflation was the biggest economic concern of
economists this year, according to Reuters polls.
The 16 countries included Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil,
Britain, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines,
South Korea and the United States where Ipsos surveyed about
1,000 adults in each nation. In Chad, the Democratic Republic of
the Congo, Iraq and Malawi, it surveyed about 500 people in each
country.
Inflation and increased cost of living was the most-cited cause
of child hunger in 11 of the 16 countries, reaching a high of
70% in Bangladesh. But wealthy countries such as Canada (68%),
Australia (66%) and Britain (66%) also cited higher prices as
the main cause.
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
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