UN: Pandemic Could Push Tens of Millions Into Chronic Hunger

The U.N. World Food Program's logo is seen at the agency's headquarters in New York. Nov. 6, 2017. The United Nations says the ranks of the world’s hungry grew by 10 million last year and warns that the coronavirus pandemic could push as many as 130 million more people into chronic hunger this year. The grim assessment is contained in an annual report released Monday, July 13 2020 by the five U.N. agencies that produced it. Robert Bumstead/AP Photo

ROME—The United Nations says the ranks of the world’s hungry grew by 10 million last year and warns that the coronavirus pandemic could push as many as 130 million more people into chronic hunger this year.

The grim assessment was contained in the latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, an annual report released Monday by the five U.N. agencies that produced it.