Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the male adult population (percent) (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
Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the male adult population (percent) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Upper bound is currently reported for 3 countries. The highest value is 18.2 % in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 52.2 % in Caribbean.
The median across all reporting countries is 52.2 %, and the mean is 42.1 %.
Over the past decade 2 countries rose and 1 fell. The largest increase was in Australia and New Zealand (up 91.6%), and the largest decrease in Caribbean (down 14.7%).
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 | 18.2 % | 2025 | up 91.6% | rising |
| 2 | Melanesia | 55.9 % | 2025 | up 3.1% | flat |
| 8 | Caribbean | 52.2 % | 2025 | down 14.7% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Middle Africa 76.7 %
- Eastern Africa 63.4 %
- Low-income economies 63.2 %
- Western Africa 62.4 %
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 54.3 %
- Sub-Saharan Africa 61.9 %
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 46.7 %
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 61.3 %
- Asia 20.2 %
- Africa 55.3 %
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 53.3 %
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 48.4 %
- Lower-middle-income economies 36.4 %
- Western Asia 33.2 %
- Southern Asia 33.1 %
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 32.5 %
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 31.4 %
- Northern Africa 30 %
- Oceania 27.4 %
- Southern Africa 24.3 %
- World 23.3 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 21.1 %
- Central America 19.7 %
- South America 18.9 %
- Central Asia 18.2 %
- South-eastern Asia 12.4 %
- Upper-middle-income economies 11.8 %
- Northern America 9.2 %
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 8.9 %
- Northern Europe 8.8 %
- Eastern Europe 8.4 %
- High-income economies 8 %
- Northern America and Europe 7.9 %
- Eastern Asia 7.7 %
- Western Europe 7.6 %
- Europe 7.5 %
- Southern Europe 5.5 %
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.