Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the male adult population (percent) (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
Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the male adult population (percent) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Lower bound is currently reported for 2 countries. The highest value is 14 % in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 52.3 % in Melanesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 33.15 %, and the mean is 33.15 %.
Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the male adult: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia and New Zealand | 14 % | 2025 | up 122.2% | rising |
| 3 | Melanesia | 52.3 % | 2025 | up 3.2% | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Middle Africa 74.8 %
- Low-income economies 61.7 %
- Sub-Saharan Africa 60.4 %
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 52.7 %
- Eastern Africa 60.3 %
- Western Africa 60.2 %
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 44.6 %
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 59.5 %
- Asia 18.5 %
- Africa 54 %
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 50 %
- Caribbean 49 %
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 45.6 %
- Lower-middle-income economies 33.6 %
- Western Asia 30.3 %
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 29.5 %
- Southern Asia 29.2 %
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 28.7 %
- Northern Africa 27.6 %
- Oceania 24.3 %
- World 22.2 %
- Southern Africa 22 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 20.4 %
- Central America 18.5 %
- South America 17.9 %
- Central Asia 14.8 %
- South-Eastern Asia 11.6 %
- Upper-middle-income economies 10.8 %
- Northern America 8.4 %
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 7.9 %
- High-income economies 7.4 %
- Northern America and Europe 7.3 %
- Northern Europe 7.2 %
- Eastern Europe 7.1 %
- Europe 6.8 %
- Eastern Asia 6.3 %
- Western Europe 6.2 %
- Southern Europe 4.1 %
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.