Number of moderately or severely food insecure people (million) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Upper 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 people (million) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Upper bound is currently reported for 2 countries. The highest value is 5.6 million No in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 7.4 million No in Melanesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 6.5 million No, and the mean is 6.5 million No.
Number of moderately or severely food insecure people (million): full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia and New Zealand | 5.6 million No | 2025 | up 75.0% | rising |
| 5 | Melanesia | 7.4 million No | 2025 | up 19.4% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 2,167 million No
- Asia 1,025 million No
- Lower-middle-income economies 1,203 million No
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 684.2 million No
- Africa 887 million No
- Middle Africa 168.9 million No
- Sub-Saharan Africa 799.4 million No
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 36 million No
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 717.7 million No
- Southern Asia 704.4 million No
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 615.1 million No
- Low-income economies 413.5 million No
- Upper-middle-income economies 355.9 million No
- Eastern Africa 326.3 million No
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 303.1 million No
- Western Africa 291.7 million No
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 207.4 million No
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 203.1 million No
- Latin America and the Caribbean 155.5 million No
- Eastern Asia 117.6 million No
- High-income economies 115.4 million No
- Western Asia 114.9 million No
- Northern America and Europe 101.3 million No
- South-Eastern Asia 92.5 million No
- South America 90.9 million No
- Northern Africa 90.6 million No
- Europe 59.8 million No
- Northern America 42.4 million No
- Central America 42.2 million No
- Eastern Europe 25.9 million No
- Caribbean 24 million No
- Southern Africa 18.8 million No
- Western Europe 16.1 million No
- Central Asia 14.6 million No
- Oceania 13.1 million No
- Southern Europe 10.3 million No
- Northern Europe 10.2 million No
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 7.7 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.