Number of hungry people worldwide drops below 800 million - U.N.

Malnourished two-year-old Dhoah Thoan is fed at a hospital ward in Akobo in southeastern Sudan's Jonglei state April 10, 2010. REUTERS/Mohamed Dahir

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of people in the world still going to bed hungry 15 years after the U.N. placed eradicating hunger and extreme poverty at the top of its Millennium Development Goals has dropped to 795 million, according to a report released on Wednesday.

The report by three U.N. agencies claims that number is a reduction of 167 million people over the last 10 years.