Prevalence of 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 severe food insecurity in the male adult population (percent) (annual value) — Confidence interval: Lower bound is currently reported for 3 countries. The highest value is 4.4 % in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 20.9 % in Caribbean.
The median across all reporting countries is 20.9 %, and the mean is 16.23 %.
Over the past decade 2 countries rose and 1 fell. The largest increase was in Australia and New Zealand (up 158.8%), and the largest decrease in Caribbean (down 5.0%).
Prevalence of severe food insecurity in the male adult population: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia and New Zealand | 4.4 % | 2025 | up 158.8% | rising |
| 2 | Melanesia | 23.4 % | 2025 | up 3.1% | flat |
| 5 | Caribbean | 20.9 % | 2025 | down 5.0% | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Middle Africa 33.2 %
- Low-income economies 26.5 %
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 23.2 %
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 22.1 %
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 18.7 %
- Sub-Saharan Africa 21.4 %
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 18.2 %
- Asia 7.1 %
- Eastern Africa 20.4 %
- Africa 19 %
- Western Africa 18.7 %
- Lower-middle-income economies 13.6 %
- Southern Asia 13.3 %
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 13.2 %
- Western Asia 13.1 %
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 12.9 %
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 11.5 %
- Oceania 9.5 %
- Northern Africa 9 %
- Southern Africa 8.9 %
- World 7.9 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 5.5 %
- Central America 5.3 %
- South America 3.6 %
- Northern Europe 2.8 %
- Central Asia 2.3 %
- Upper-middle-income economies 2.2 %
- Europe 2.1 %
- Western Europe 2.1 %
- High-income economies 2 %
- Northern America and Europe 1.7 %
- South-eastern Asia 1.4 %
- Eastern Europe 1.3 %
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 1.2 %
- Eastern Asia 1 %
- Southern Europe 0.8 %
- Northern America 0.8 %
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.