Some startling numbers

Today I came across some statistics that, frankly, shocked me. Here they are:

1.)"One in six working Londoners is functionally illiterate."
This is in the So Why Can't They Read? put out by the UK-based Centre for Policy Studies.

2.)"The number of food-insecure people at the aggregate level will not improve much over the next decade, declining by only 1 percent. While there will be notable improvements in Asia and Latin America, the situation in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to deteriorate after 2010. Food-insecure people are defined as those consuming less than the nutritional target of 2,100 calories per day per person."
This comes from the Food Security Assessment, 2010-2020.The report is put out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service.