Number of moderately or severely food insecure people (million) (annual value) — Value 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) — Value is currently reported for 2 countries. The highest value is 5.1 million No in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 7.1 million No in Melanesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 6.1 million No, and the mean is 6.1 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 | 5.1 million No | 2025 | up 88.9% | rising |
| 5 | Melanesia | 7.1 million No | 2025 | up 18.3% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 2,124 million No
- Asia 983.2 million No
- Lower-middle-income economies 1,164 million No
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 674.7 million No
- Africa 877 million No
- Middle Africa 166.5 million No
- Sub-Saharan Africa 790.1 million No
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 35.2 million No
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 678.8 million No
- Southern Asia 665.4 million No
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 606.7 million No
- Low-income economies 409.1 million No
- Upper-middle-income economies 341.6 million No
- Eastern Africa 318.9 million No
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 295 million No
- Western Africa 286.6 million No
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 197.3 million No
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 194 million No
- Latin America and the Caribbean 153.1 million No
- High-income economies 111.9 million No
- Western Asia 110.4 million No
- Eastern Asia 104.5 million No
- Northern America and Europe 98.3 million No
- South-Eastern Asia 89.5 million No
- South America 88.8 million No
- Northern Africa 86.9 million No
- Europe 57 million No
- Northern America 41.3 million No
- Central America 41 million No
- Eastern Europe 24.2 million No
- Caribbean 23.2 million No
- Southern Africa 18 million No
- Western Europe 14.8 million No
- Central Asia 13.4 million No
- Oceania 12.6 million No
- Southern Europe 9.2 million No
- Northern Europe 8.8 million No
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 7.4 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.