"Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That's about one in nine people on earth." [0]

that's more people than were alive globally in 1700 [1]. looks like the last 300 years have been a complete catastrophe with respect to hunger.

[0] https://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

[1] https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/worldpo...