Number of severely food insecure male adults (million) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Upper bound by country

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

• World 275.6 million No
• Asia 157 million No
• Lower-middle-income economies 176 million No
• Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 72.6 million No
• Central Asia and Southern Asia 127.7 million No
• Middle Africa 21.3 million No
• Southern Asia 126.8 million No
• Small island developing States (SIDS) 6.5 million No
• Africa 93.8 million No
• Sub-Saharan Africa 84.4 million No
• Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 71.5 million No
• Low-income economies 51.2 million No
• Eastern Africa 33.9 million No
• Upper-middle-income economies 29.4 million No
• Western Africa 28 million No
• Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 27.8 million No
• Western Asia and Northern Africa 27 million No
• Western Asia 17.5 million No
• Latin America and the Caribbean 15.7 million No
• High-income economies 15.2 million No
• Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 13.9 million No
• Northern America and Europe 11.1 million No
• Northern Africa 10 million No
• Eastern Asia 9.8 million No
• Europe 9.7 million No
• South America 7.2 million No
• Caribbean 5.1 million No
• Northern Europe 5.1 million No
• South-Eastern Asia 4.4 million No
• Central America 4.1 million No
• Southern Africa 2.7 million No
• Western Europe 2.5 million No
• Oceania 2 million No
• Eastern Europe 1.9 million No
• Northern America 1.5 million No
• Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 1.2 million No
• Central Asia 1.1 million No
• Southern Europe 1 million No