Prevalence of severe food insecurity in the female adult population (percent) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Lower bound by country

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

• Middle Africa 33.8 %
• Low-income economies 27.7 %
• Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 23.8 %
• Sub-Saharan Africa 22.2 %
• Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 19.4 %
• Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 21.9 %
• Small island developing States (SIDS) 17.1 %
• Eastern Africa 21.3 %
• Asia 7.2 %
• Africa 20.1 %
• Western Africa 19.5 %
• Caribbean 18.6 %
• Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 14.3 %
• Lower-middle-income economies 14.3 %
• Southern Asia 14.2 %
• Central Asia and Southern Asia 13.8 %
• Western Asia 13.6 %
• Western Asia and Northern Africa 12.5 %
• Northern Africa 10.8 %
• Southern Africa 9.8 %
• Oceania 9.2 %
• World 8.2 %
• Central America 6.3 %
• Latin America and the Caribbean 5.8 %
• South America 4 %
• Northern Europe 2.4 %
• Western Europe 2.3 %
• Upper-middle-income economies 2.2 %
• Europe 2.1 %
• Central Asia 2.1 %
• Northern America and Europe 1.9 %
• High-income economies 1.7 %
• South-Eastern Asia 1.5 %
• Eastern Europe 1.4 %
• Southern Europe 1.3 %
• Northern America 1.3 %
• Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 0.9 %
• Eastern Asia 0.6 %