Number of moderately or severely food insecure people (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 people (million) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Lower bound is currently reported for 2 countries. The highest value is 4.6 million No in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 6.9 million No in Melanesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 5.75 million No, and the mean is 5.75 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 | 4.6 million No | 2025 | up 109.1% | rising |
| 5 | Melanesia | 6.9 million No | 2025 | up 19.0% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 2,081 million No
- Asia 941.7 million No
- Lower-middle-income economies 1,125 million No
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 665.1 million No
- Africa 866.9 million No
- Middle Africa 164.2 million No
- Sub-Saharan Africa 780.8 million No
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 34.4 million No
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 639.9 million No
- Southern Asia 626.5 million No
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 598.2 million No
- Low-income economies 404.7 million No
- Upper-middle-income economies 327.2 million No
- Eastern Africa 311.5 million No
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 287 million No
- Western Africa 281.6 million No
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 191.4 million No
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 180.5 million No
- Latin America and the Caribbean 150.6 million No
- High-income economies 108.5 million No
- Western Asia 105.9 million No
- Northern America and Europe 95.3 million No
- Eastern Asia 91.3 million No
- South America 86.8 million No
- South-Eastern Asia 86.6 million No
- Northern Africa 83.1 million No
- Europe 54.2 million No
- Northern America 40.2 million No
- Central America 39.9 million No
- Caribbean 22.5 million No
- Eastern Europe 22.5 million No
- Southern Africa 17.3 million No
- Western Europe 13.4 million No
- Central Asia 12.2 million No
- Oceania 12 million No
- Southern Europe 8.1 million No
- Northern Europe 7.5 million No
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 7.2 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.