6 Million Youths a Year

From an article in USA Today, according to a recent UN study:

Hunger and malnutrition kill nearly 6 million children a year... Many of the children die from diseases that are treatable, including diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria and measles... Diseases such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, which kill more than 6 million people a year, hit the hungry and poor the hardest, according to the report's findings. Millions of families are pushed deeper into poverty and hunger by the illness and death of breadwinners, the cost of health care, paying for funerals and support of orphans. About 75% of the world's hungry and poor live in rural areas in poor countries, the report found.