Number of severely food insecure female adults (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 severely food insecure female adults (million) (annual value) — Value is currently reported for 2 countries. The highest value is 0.7 million No in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 1.1 million No in Melanesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.9 million No, and the mean is 0.9 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 | 0.7 million No | 2025 | up 133.3% | rising |
| 5 | Melanesia | 1.1 million No | 2025 | up 22.2% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 273 million No
- Asia 145.4 million No
- Lower-middle-income economies 170.6 million No
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 75.8 million No
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 119.3 million No
- Middle Africa 21.6 million No
- Southern Asia 118.5 million No
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 5.6 million No
- Africa 98 million No
- Sub-Saharan Africa 87 million No
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 73.3 million No
- Low-income economies 54 million No
- Eastern Africa 34.6 million No
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 28.7 million No
- Upper-middle-income economies 28.3 million No
- Western Africa 27.9 million No
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 26.4 million No
- Latin America and the Caribbean 16.5 million No
- Western Asia 15.4 million No
- High-income economies 12.2 million No
- Northern America and Europe 11.4 million No
- Northern Africa 11 million No
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 10.7 million No
- Europe 9.2 million No
- South America 7.6 million No
- Eastern Asia 6.2 million No
- Central America 4.8 million No
- South-Eastern Asia 4.6 million No
- Caribbean 4.1 million No
- Northern Europe 3.6 million No
- Southern Africa 2.9 million No
- Western Europe 2.4 million No
- Northern America 2.2 million No
- Eastern Europe 2.1 million No
- Oceania 1.8 million No
- Southern Europe 1.2 million No
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 1.1 million No
- Central Asia 0.8 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.