Table 1.

Effects of trade on the number of countries and the percentage of the global population not free from hunger (F<F_fh), free from hunger but with no well-being (F_fh < F < F_wb), and in a well-being state (F > F_wb), for select years in the study period.

	Access to food		1986		1991		1996		2001		2006		2010
State after trade	Reduced by trade percentage)	Number of countries	Percentage of global population	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
Countries not free from hunger F < Ffh	from not free from hunger (F<Ffh)	0	0.00	1	0.08	2	0.29	1	0.20	2	1.34	3	0.25
	from free from hunger (Ffh<F<Fwb)	0	0.00	1	0.20	0	0.00	1	0.14	0	0.00	0	0.00
	from well-being (i.e., F>Fwb)	0	0.00	2	0.10	1	0.02	2	0.04	2	0.04	1	0.59
	Improved by trade	21	3.65	26	4.66	34	8.12	26	5.48	18	3.35	24	5.95
	otal	21	3.65	30	5.04	37	8.42	30	5.86	22	4.72	28	6.79
Countries free from hunger but with no well-being Ffh<F<Fwb	Reduced by trade
	from free from hunger (Ffh<F<Fwb)	3	0.42	3	17.03	5	17.92	1	0.19	1	0.20	2	0.71
	from well-being (i.e., F>Fwb)	2	0.27	0	0.00	1	0.13	2	1.01	2	0.42	4	0.60
	Improved by trade
	from free from hunger (F>Ffh)	15	7.41	13	5.15	10	3.55	15	4.93	12	4.55	10	4.26
	from not free from hunger (F<Ffh)	13	20.78	13	4.65	14	2.87	13	21.58	8	19.90	7	19.89
	otal	33	28.88	29	26.82	30	24.47	31	27.71	23	25.07	23	25.46
Countries in well-being state F>Fwb	Reduced by trade	23	18.64	22	19.90	21	14.46	25	17.98	26	17.32	24	18.84
	Improved by trade
	from well-being (i.e., F>Fwb)	26	39.31	24	36.77	38	41.33	39	39.03	40	40.57	44	37.27
	from not free from hunger (F<Ffh)	16	4.32	13	5.46	11	6.42	8	3.48	19	6.50	11	6.08
	from free from hunger (Ffh<F<Fwb)	14	5.20	16	6.01	18	4.91	22	5.95	24	5.82	24	5.56
	otal	79	67.47	75	68.14	88	67.10	94	66.44	109	70.21	103	67.75
Global	Population billions	4.84		5.36		5.77		6.16		6.54		6.85
	Reduced by trade	28	19.33	29	37.31	30	32.81	32	19.56	33	19.32	34	20.98
	Improved by trade	105	80.67	105	62.69	125	67.19	123	80.44	121	80.68	120	79.02

Note: Within each of these categories we show the number of countries and the percentage of the global population whose situation is improved by trade, eroded by trade, and shifted from a different category. Globally, trade is improving the per capita calories available, but inequality is not decreasing (see figure 2). The majority of countries—and their associated populations—”adversely” affected by trade remain above the well-being threshold.