How many people die from starvation yearly?

20,000 to 24,000 people die every day from malnutrition (hunger), or hunger-related causes. This equates to 7,300,00 to 8,760,000 per year. Tom Tietenberg's book lists 24,000 people (Environmental Economics and Policy, by Tom Tietenberg, Addison Wesley, page 188, 2006). Tietenberg cites the "United Nations Hunger Project, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (2002), and the FAO (2003)." Within the websites of these three organizations, the value of 20,000 per day is used, but the root document where this number comes from was not found. This should be researched further.