Number of 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 severely food insecure female adults (million) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Lower bound is currently reported for 2 countries. The highest value is 0.6 million No in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 1 million No in Melanesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.8 million No, and the mean is 0.8 million No.
Number of severely food insecure female adults (million) (annual): full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia and New Zealand | 0.6 million No | 2025 | up 200.0% | rising |
| 5 | Melanesia | 1 million No | 2025 | up 25.0% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 261.3 million No
- Asia 133.9 million No
- Lower-middle-income economies 159.3 million No
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 74 million No
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 107.9 million No
- Middle Africa 20.8 million No
- Southern Asia 107.2 million No
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 4.8 million No
- Africa 96 million No
- Sub-Saharan Africa 85.2 million No
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 71.7 million No
- Low-income economies 52.9 million No
- Eastern Africa 33.4 million No
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 27.3 million No
- Western Africa 26.8 million No
- Upper-middle-income economies 26.1 million No
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 25.3 million No
- Latin America and the Caribbean 15.5 million No
- Western Asia 14.7 million No
- High-income economies 11.4 million No
- Northern America and Europe 10.6 million No
- Northern Africa 10.2 million No
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 9 million No
- Europe 8.4 million No
- South America 7.1 million No
- Central America 4.5 million No
- Eastern Asia 4.5 million No
- South-Eastern Asia 4 million No
- Caribbean 3.3 million No
- Northern Europe 2.9 million No
- Southern Africa 2.8 million No
- Northern America 2.1 million No
- Western Europe 2 million No
- Eastern Europe 1.8 million No
- Oceania 1.7 million No
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 1 million No
- Southern Europe 0.9 million No
- Central Asia 0.6 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.