Millions still suffer despite progress by UN

About 800 million people still live in poverty and suffer from hunger despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals being the most successful anti-poverty push in history, the UN said on Monday.

The number of people living in extreme poverty on less than $1.25 a day has more than halved, to 836 million from 1.9 billion in 1990, the UN said in a report analyzing eight development goals set out in the Millennium Declaration in 2000.

"Following profound and consistent gains, we now know that extreme poverty can be eradicated within one more generation," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement.