Number of 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 severely food insecure people (million) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Lower bound is currently reported for 1 countries. The highest value is 1.4 million No in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 1.4 million No in Australia and New Zealand.
The median across all reporting countries is 1.4 million No, and the mean is 1.4 million No.
Number of severely food insecure people (million) (annual value): full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia and New Zealand | 1.4 million No | 2025 | up 180.0% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 747.4 million No
- Asia 362.8 million No
- Lower-middle-income economies 447.5 million No
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 240.4 million No
- Africa 312.2 million No
- Middle Africa 74 million No
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 287.6 million No
- Small island developing states (SIDS) 13.5 million No
- Southern Asia 285.2 million No
- Melanesia 3.1 million No
- Sub-Saharan Africa 282 million No
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 235.2 million No
- Low-income economies 175.1 million No
- Eastern Africa 107.6 million No
- Western Africa 88.4 million No
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 86.3 million No
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 74.3 million No
- Upper-middle-income economies 67.7 million No
- Western Asia 44.7 million No
- Latin America and the Caribbean 38.8 million No
- Northern Africa 28.3 million No
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 25.2 million No
- High-income economies 24 million No
- Northern America and Europe 18.6 million No
- South America 17.1 million No
- Europe 14.3 million No
- Eastern Asia 14 million No
- Central America 11.2 million No
- South-Eastern Asia 10.2 million No
- Caribbean 9.1 million No
- Southern Africa 7.1 million No
- Oceania 4.7 million No
- Western Europe 4.4 million No
- Northern America 4 million No
- Eastern Europe 3.8 million No
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 3.2 million No
- Northern Europe 3.1 million No
- Central Asia 1.8 million No
- Southern Europe 1.6 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.