Number of severely food insecure people (million) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Upper 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: Upper bound is currently reported for 1 countries. The highest value is 1.9 million No in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 1.9 million No in Australia and New Zealand.
The median across all reporting countries is 1.9 million No, and the mean is 1.9 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 | 1.9 million No | 2025 | up 90.0% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 809.8 million No
- Asia 423.5 million No
- Lower-middle-income economies 507.9 million No
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 253.3 million No
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 347.7 million No
- Middle Africa 79.4 million No
- Southern Asia 345.2 million No
- Small island developing states (SIDS) 17.3 million No
- Africa 325.9 million No
- Melanesia 3.5 million No
- Sub-Saharan Africa 295 million No
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 247.2 million No
- Low-income economies 182.9 million No
- Eastern Africa 117 million No
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 96.8 million No
- Western Africa 95.5 million No
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 80.3 million No
- Upper-middle-income economies 77.4 million No
- Western Asia 48.8 million No
- Latin America and the Caribbean 43.7 million No
- Northern Africa 32.7 million No
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 32.3 million No
- High-income economies 27.5 million No
- Northern America and Europe 21.7 million No
- Eastern Asia 20.7 million No
- South America 19.7 million No
- Europe 17.4 million No
- Caribbean 12.8 million No
- Central America 12.6 million No
- South-Eastern Asia 12.6 million No
- Southern Africa 8 million No
- Western Europe 6.1 million No
- Oceania 5.3 million No
- Eastern Europe 5 million No
- Northern Europe 4.8 million No
- Northern America 4.7 million No
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 3.6 million No
- Central Asia 3 million No
- Southern Europe 2.9 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.