............. According to Gallup World, in 2013,
the 10 countries with the highest proportion of residents living in extreme poverty were all in sub-Saharan Africa.
Extreme poverty is defined as living on $1.25 or less a day. In 2010,
414 million people were living in extreme poverty across sub-Saharan Africa.
According to the World Bank, those living on $1.25 a day accounted for 48.5 percent of the population in that region in 2010.
Approximately one in three people living in sub-Saharan Africa are undernourished.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations estimated that 239 million people (around 30 percent of the population) in sub-Saharan Africa were hungry in 2010.
This is the highest percentage of any region in the world.
In addition, the U.N. Millennium Project reported that over 40 percent of all Africans are unable to regularly obtain sufficient food.
In sub-Saharan Africa, 589 million people live without electricity. As a result, a staggering 80 percent of the population relies on biomass products such as wood, charcoal and dung in order to cook .........