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1) Undernutrition (including fetal growth restriction, stunting, wasting, and deficiencies of vitamin A and zinc along with sub-optimal breastfeeding) contributes to more than 3 million deaths of children per year - up to 45% of the global total.

(Source: Lancet Paper 1 (Black et al 2013)

2) Roughly 100 million children under 5 years of age are underweight (16%)

(Source: Lancet Paper 1 (Black et al 2013)

3) There are still 165 million children stunted in the world (26% or 1 in 4 children) and at least 52 million wasted (8%)

(Source: Lancet Paper 1 (Black et al 2013)

4) In 2011, 43 million children younger than 5 years, or 7%, were overweight - a 54% increase from an estimated 28 million in 1990.

(Source: Lancet Paper 1 (Black et al 2013)

Maternal and child undernutrition is the cause of more than 3 million deaths annually

(Black et al, Lancet Series 2013)

A girl happy to learn in a classroom in Kenya in 2009

Source: Mike Bloem Photography

Girl learning in an orphanage classroom in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Source: Mike Bloem Photography