Despite its green revolution and food self-sufficiency, India has as many as 204 million undernourished people against 180 million in all of Sub-Saharan Africa, says the first edition of the `State Of The Food Insecurity In The World, 1999'.

Hartwig De Haen, assistant director-general of the Economic and Social Department of FAO who released the report at a news conference here, said that almost 800 million people in the developing world go to sleep hungry every night. "That is more than the combined population of Europe and North America."

The number of undernourished people in the developing world has fallen by 40 million from 830 million between 1992 and 1997. This decline, however, represents the extraordinary achievement of just 37 countries which realised reductions totalling 100 million.