2.1.2 Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity (15 years old and over) (no breakdown by urbanisation) — Value — Female — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — National by country

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

• Low-income economies 64 %
• Middle Africa 76.7 %
• Eastern Africa 63.4 %
• Sub-Saharan Africa 62.4 %
• Western Africa 62.4 %
• Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 54.7 %
• Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 61.8 %
• Africa 56.7 %
• Small island developing States (SIDS) 48.4 %
• Caribbean 53.8 %
• Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 51.2 %
• Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 48.5 %
• Lower-middle-income economies 39.5 %
• Asia 21.2 %
• Western Asia 36.7 %
• Southern Asia 36.5 %
• Central Asia and Southern Asia 35.7 %
• Western Asia and Northern Africa 35.3 %
• Northern Africa 33.8 %
• Latin America and the Caribbean 26.1 %
• Central America 26.1 %
• Southern Africa 25.6 %
• Oceania 25.2 %
• World 24.7 %
• South America 23.3 %
• Central Asia 15.8 %
• South-Eastern Asia 13.8 %
• United States of America 12.8 %
• Northern America 12.6 %
• Upper-middle-income economies 12.5 %
• Eastern Europe 9.7 %
• Northern America and Europe 9.2 %
• High-income economies 8 %
• Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 7.9 %
• Europe 7.8 %
• Northern Europe 7.3 %
• Southern Europe 6.8 %
• Western Europe 6.4 %
• Eastern Asia 5.6 %