Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the total 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 total population (percent) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Lower bound is currently reported for 2 countries. The highest value is 14.2 % in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 52.4 % in Melanesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 33.3 %, and the mean is 33.3 %.
Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the total: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia and New Zealand | 14.2 % | 2025 | up 82.1% | rising |
| 3 | Melanesia | 52.4 % | 2025 | up 3.1% | 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 63.2 %
- Sub-Saharan Africa 61.4 %
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 54.8 %
- Eastern Africa 60.7 %
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 60.6 %
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 47.1 %
- Western Africa 60.5 %
- Asia 19.5 %
- Africa 56 %
- Caribbean 50.3 %
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 50.1 %
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 47.4 %
- Lower-middle-income economies 35.6 %
- Western Asia 33.7 %
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 32.4 %
- Northern Africa 30.1 %
- Southern Asia 30 %
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 29.5 %
- Oceania 25.7 %
- World 25.3 %
- Southern Africa 23.4 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 22.6 %
- Central America 21.5 %
- South America 19.8 %
- Central Asia 14.5 %
- South-Eastern Asia 12.4 %
- Upper-middle-income economies 11.4 %
- Northern America 10.4 %
- Northern America and Europe 8.4 %
- Eastern Europe 7.9 %
- High-income economies 7.8 %
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 7.7 %
- Europe 7.3 %
- Northern Europe 6.9 %
- Western Europe 6.7 %
- Eastern Asia 5.5 %
- Southern Europe 5.4 %
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.