Number of moderately or severely food insecure female adults (million) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Lower bound by country
The Suite of Food Security Indicators presents the core set of food security indicators. Following the recommendation of experts gathered in the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Round Table on hunger measurement, hosted at FAO headquarters in September 2011, an initial set of indicators aiming to capture...
What the numbers show
Number of moderately or severely food insecure female adults (million) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Lower bound is currently reported for 2 countries. The highest value is 1.9 million No in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 2.3 million No in Melanesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 2.1 million No, and the mean is 2.1 million No.
Number of moderately or severely food insecure female adults: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia and New Zealand | 1.9 million No | 2025 | up 72.7% | rising |
| 5 | Melanesia | 2.3 million No | 2025 | up 27.8% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 737.7 million No
- Asia 347.4 million No
- Lower-middle-income economies 392 million No
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 205.4 million No
- Africa 264.4 million No
- Middle Africa 46 million No
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 236.4 million No
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 13.1 million No
- Sub-Saharan Africa 234.1 million No
- Southern Asia 232 million No
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 181.3 million No
- Upper-middle-income economies 132.4 million No
- Low-income economies 120.2 million No
- Eastern Africa 95.6 million No
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 89 million No
- Western Africa 84 million No
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 68 million No
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 66.5 million No
- Latin America and the Caribbean 64.2 million No
- High-income economies 53.7 million No
- Northern America and Europe 52 million No
- South America 37.3 million No
- Western Asia 36.3 million No
- South-Eastern Asia 33.9 million No
- Eastern Asia 33 million No
- Europe 31.8 million No
- Northern Africa 29.2 million No
- Northern America 20 million No
- Central America 17.2 million No
- Eastern Europe 11.4 million No
- Caribbean 9.1 million No
- Northern Europe 8.4 million No
- Southern Africa 6.7 million No
- Western Europe 6.2 million No
- Southern Europe 4.5 million No
- Oceania 4.4 million No
- Central Asia 4.1 million No
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 2.4 million No
About this data
The Suite of Food Security Indicators presents the core set of food security indicators. Following the recommendation of experts gathered in the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Round Table on hunger measurement, hosted at FAO headquarters in September 2011, an initial set of indicators aiming to capture various aspects of food insecurity is presented here. The choice of the indicators has been informed by expert judgement and the availability of data with sufficient coverage to enable comparisons across regions and over time. Many of these indicators are produced and published elsewhere by FAO and other international organizations. They are reported here in a single database with the aim of building a wide food security information system. More indicators will be added to this set as more data will become available. Indicators are classified along the four dimensions of food security -- availability, access, utilization and stability.