Billions of people go to bed hungry every day, says UN deputy secretary-general

UNITED NATIONS, July 17 — Today, one in 10 people across the world still lives in extreme poverty, 2.3 billion people go to bed hungry every night, and more than 2 billion people still lack access to safe drinking water, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said Thursday.

Speaking at the high-level segment of the Economic and Social Council on the “Way forward to 2030,” Mohammed said the 2026 UN Secretary-General’s report on progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals indicates that more than a third of SDG targets are on track or making moderate progress, but progress remains deeply uneven across the goals and among countries.