2.1.2 Number of moderately or severely food insecure people (male) (15 years old and over) — Value by country
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What the numbers show
2.1.2 Number of moderately or severely food insecure people (male) (15 years old and over) — Value is currently reported for 115 countries. The highest value is 52,774 1000 No in Nigeria; the lowest is 100.2 1000 No in Lithuania.
The median across all reporting countries is 1,354 1000 No, and the mean is 3,445 1000 No.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 527.
Over the past decade 85 countries rose and 28 fell. The largest increase was in Paraguay (up 258.4%), and the largest decrease in Poland (down 71.4%).
2.1.2 Number of moderately or severely food insecure people (male): full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nigeria | 52,774 1000 No | 2024 | up 180.9% | rising |
| 2 | Ethiopia | 24,015 1000 No | 2024 | up 48.0% | rising |
| 3 | Bangladesh | 15,392 1000 No | 2024 | down 1.7% | falling |
| 4 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 23,684 1000 No | 2024 | up 37.5% | rising |
| 4 | Pakistan | 15,244 1000 No | 2024 | up 90.2% | rising |
| 5 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 13,685 1000 No | 2024 | down 12.3% | falling |
| 5 | Philippines | 13,302 1000 No | 2024 | down 16.4% | falling |
| 6 | Kenya | 12,365 1000 No | 2024 | up 93.1% | rising |
| 7 | Egypt | 11,136 1000 No | 2024 | up 45.7% | rising |
| 7 | United Republic of Tanzania | 11,127 1000 No | 2024 | up 71.5% | rising |
| 8 | Afghanistan | 8,964 1000 No | 2024 | up 132.4% | rising |
| 8 | Viet Nam | 2,997 1000 No | 2024 | up 52.9% | rising |
| 9 | Yemen | 8,784 1000 No | 2024 | up 125.8% | rising |
| 9 | Melanesia | 2,439 1000 No | 2025 | up 23.4% | rising |
| 10 | Angola | 7,481 1000 No | 2024 | up 22.8% | rising |
| 10 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 904.2 1000 No | 2024 | up 44.1% | rising |
| 11 | Uganda | 7,106 1000 No | 2024 | up 9.4% | flat |
| 11 | Republic of Moldova | 233.5 1000 No | 2024 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 12 | Mexico | 6,508 1000 No | 2024 | down 34.6% | falling |
| 13 | Brazil | 6,502 1000 No | 2024 | down 24.8% | flat |
| 14 | Myanmar | 6,157 1000 No | 2024 | up 47.8% | rising |
| 15 | Madagascar | 5,951 1000 No | 2024 | up 33.4% | rising |
| 16 | Colombia | 5,302 1000 No | 2024 | up 62.8% | rising |
| 17 | Cameroon | 5,118 1000 No | 2024 | up 59.4% | rising |
| 18 | Argentina | 5,066 1000 No | 2024 | up 101.2% | rising |
| 19 | Malawi | 4,955 1000 No | 2024 | up 43.4% | rising |
| 20 | Ghana | 4,800 1000 No | 2024 | up 50.5% | rising |
| 21 | South Africa | 4,618 1000 No | 2024 | up 45.3% | rising |
| 22 | Indonesia | 4,442 1000 No | 2024 | down 22.6% | falling |
| 23 | Japan | 4,179 1000 No | 2024 | up 138.2% | rising |
| 24 | Ukraine | 4,123 1000 No | 2024 | up 35.3% | rising |
| 25 | Niger | 3,734 1000 No | 2024 | up 33.4% | rising |
| 26 | Peru | 3,641 1000 No | 2024 | up 57.5% | rising |
| 27 | Nepal | 3,497 1000 No | 2024 | up 37.9% | rising |
| 28 | Chad | 3,471 1000 No | 2024 | up 40.4% | rising |
| 29 | Haiti | 3,237 1000 No | 2024 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 30 | Côte d'Ivoire | 3,660 1000 No | 2024 | up 43.3% | rising |
| 30 | South Sudan | 3,112 1000 No | 2024 | up 31.5% | rising |
| 31 | Zimbabwe | 3,088 1000 No | 2024 | up 32.3% | rising |
| 32 | Algeria | 3,012 1000 No | 2024 | down 4.1% | rising |
| 33 | Guatemala | 2,831 1000 No | 2024 | up 42.3% | rising |
| 34 | Zambia | 2,734 1000 No | 2024 | up 21.0% | rising |
| 35 | Burkina Faso | 2,717 1000 No | 2024 | up 27.7% | rising |
| 36 | Benin | 2,711 1000 No | 2024 | up 56.2% | rising |
| 37 | France | 2,705 1000 No | 2024 | up 63.2% | rising |
| 38 | Malaysia | 2,448 1000 No | 2024 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 39 | Sierra Leone | 2,324 1000 No | 2024 | up 54.9% | rising |
| 40 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 2,223 1000 No | 2024 | up 185.1% | rising |
| 41 | Australia and New Zealand | 2,103 1000 No | 2025 | up 134.4% | rising |
| 42 | Cambodia | 1,982 1000 No | 2024 | up 8.9% | rising |
| 43 | Ecuador | 1,925 1000 No | 2024 | up 69.5% | rising |
| 44 | Republic of Korea | 1,639 1000 No | 2024 | up 38.3% | rising |
| 45 | Canada | 1,634 1000 No | 2024 | up 135.2% | rising |
| 46 | Australia | 1,569 1000 No | 2024 | up 78.6% | rising |
| 47 | Germany | 1,542 1000 No | 2024 | up 29.0% | rising |
| 48 | Dominican Republic | 1,537 1000 No | 2024 | down 17.8% | falling |
| 49 | Senegal | 1,507 1000 No | 2024 | down 16.3% | falling |
| 50 | Russian Federation | 1,452 1000 No | 2024 | down 65.4% | falling |
| 51 | Honduras | 1,362 1000 No | 2024 | up 19.2% | rising |
| 52 | Mali | 1,354 1000 No | 2024 | up 3.0% | flat |
| 53 | Togo | 1,317 1000 No | 2024 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 54 | Liberia | 1,310 1000 No | 2024 | up 26.4% | rising |
| 55 | Chile | 1,309 1000 No | 2024 | up 101.8% | rising |
| 56 | Thailand | 1,242 1000 No | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 57 | Spain | 1,158 1000 No | 2024 | down 9.7% | falling |
| 58 | Romania | 1,083 1000 No | 2024 | down 18.3% | flat |
| 59 | Tunisia | 1,057 1000 No | 2024 | up 37.2% | rising |
| 60 | Libya | 955.4 1000 No | 2024 | up 72.9% | rising |
| 61 | Mauritania | 915 1000 No | 2024 | up 246.1% | rising |
| 62 | Lebanon | 857.3 1000 No | 2024 | up 140.4% | rising |
| 63 | Sri Lanka | 855.2 1000 No | 2024 | up 69.2% | rising |
| 64 | El Salvador | 827 1000 No | 2024 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 65 | Tajikistan | 743.2 1000 No | 2024 | up 65.3% | rising |
| 66 | Jamaica | 669.1 1000 No | 2024 | up 41.9% | rising |
| 67 | Paraguay | 619.7 1000 No | 2024 | up 258.4% | rising |
| 68 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 584.1 1000 No | 2024 | up 47.1% | rising |
| 69 | Hungary | 575.7 1000 No | 2024 | up 52.7% | rising |
| 70 | Azerbaijan | 549.7 1000 No | 2024 | up 184.5% | rising |
| 71 | Namibia | 479.9 1000 No | 2024 | up 31.6% | rising |
| 72 | Lesotho | 449 1000 No | 2024 | up 35.0% | rising |
| 73 | Botswana | 420.9 1000 No | 2024 | up 37.4% | rising |
| 74 | Gambia | 407 1000 No | 2024 | up 21.7% | rising |
| 75 | Palestine, State of | 402.9 1000 No | 2022 | up 17.9% | rising |
| 76 | New Zealand | 387.3 1000 No | 2024 | up 178.0% | rising |
| 77 | Guinea-Bissau | 385.7 1000 No | 2022 | up 18.1% | rising |
| 78 | Belgium | 367.4 1000 No | 2024 | up 80.6% | rising |
| 79 | Portugal | 351.1 1000 No | 2024 | down 31.5% | falling |
| 80 | Czechia | 347.8 1000 No | 2024 | up 52.1% | rising |
| 81 | Sweden | 335.4 1000 No | 2024 | up 94.5% | rising |
| 82 | Poland | 330.8 1000 No | 2024 | down 71.4% | falling |
| 83 | Albania | 309.2 1000 No | 2024 | down 23.5% | falling |
| 84 | Finland | 296.4 1000 No | 2024 | up 57.6% | rising |
| 85 | Israel | 288.1 1000 No | 2024 | down 9.4% | falling |
| 86 | Georgia | 286.6 1000 No | 2024 | down 32.1% | falling |
| 87 | Greece | 286.4 1000 No | 2024 | down 59.2% | falling |
| 88 | Bulgaria | 266.8 1000 No | 2024 | down 34.7% | falling |
| 89 | Singapore | 260 1000 No | 2024 | up 144.1% | rising |
| 90 | Kuwait | 259.4 1000 No | 2024 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 91 | Costa Rica | 242.7 1000 No | 2024 | up 14.9% | rising |
| 92 | Eswatini | 232.4 1000 No | 2024 | — | flat |
| 93 | Austria | 181.9 1000 No | 2024 | up 11.5% | rising |
| 94 | Uruguay | 177.5 1000 No | 2024 | up 17.9% | rising |
| 95 | Serbia | 166.8 1000 No | 2024 | down 48.4% | falling |
| 96 | Kyrgyzstan | 160.5 1000 No | 2024 | up 19.5% | rising |
| 97 | Norway | 159.4 1000 No | 2024 | — | rising |
| 98 | Denmark | 151.5 1000 No | 2024 | up 24.8% | rising |
| 99 | Mauritius | 145 1000 No | 2024 | up 43.7% | rising |
| 100 | Ireland | 139.8 1000 No | 2024 | down 17.5% | falling |
| 101 | Slovakia | 138.9 1000 No | 2024 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 102 | Switzerland | 119.7 1000 No | 2024 | down 19.6% | falling |
| 103 | Croatia | 112.9 1000 No | 2022 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 104 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 105.1 1000 No | 2023 | down 20.7% | falling |
| 105 | Kazakhstan | 104.1 1000 No | 2024 | down 10.0% | falling |
| 106 | North Macedonia | 100.8 1000 No | 2023 | down 1.0% | rising |
| 107 | Lithuania | 100.2 1000 No | 2020 | down 38.6% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 722,161 1000 No
- Asia 367,629 1000 No
- Africa 256,516 1000 No
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 195,903 1000 No
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 247,982 1000 No
- Middle Africa 45,294 1000 No
- Southern Asia 243,366 1000 No
- Sub-Saharan Africa 229,232 1000 No
- Eastern Africa 92,856 1000 No
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 12,540 1000 No
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 86,345 1000 No
- Western Africa 85,043 1000 No
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 81,407 1000 No
- Americas 66,655 1000 No
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 65,524 1000 No
- Latin America and the Caribbean 52,535 1000 No
- Eastern Asia 49,637 1000 No
- Northern America and Europe 40,830 1000 No
- Western Asia 38,240 1000 No
- South-Eastern Asia 31,770 1000 No
- South America 31,266 1000 No
- Northern Africa 27,284 1000 No
- Europe 26,710 1000 No
- Northern America 14,120 1000 No
- Central America 12,714 1000 No
- United States of America 12,324 1000 No
- Northern Europe 9,423 1000 No
- Eastern Europe 8,588 1000 No
- Caribbean 8,556 1000 No
- Southern Africa 6,039 1000 No
- Western Europe 5,681 1000 No
- Oceania 4,651 1000 No
- Central Asia 4,616 1000 No
- Southern Europe 3,017 1000 No
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 2,548 1000 No
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