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Just a few numbers to put that number into perspective. I am not trying to make any particular point with this post, just trying to get a feeling for how many children/people are affected by this.
Sudan has a population of about 46.87 million people.
One death every two hours would be 4380 deaths a year or about 1 death in 10700 people in the total population.
According to UNICEF
The world population in 2022 was 7.951 billion people.
The 4.9 million death figure would be 1 death in 1622 people in the total population, the 2.3 million would be 1 death in 3456 people in the total population, 2.6 million would be 1 in 3058 and 2.1 million would be 1 in 3786.
Presumably the child every two hours is an excess death figure above the deaths that occur under normal circumstances and certainly the numbers will be much higher when those mass starvation occurs.
From the article
This would be 1 in 6.7 people in the entire population of the country.
Yeah, I think it's going to get much much worse than the current situation, which is already terrible.