Prevalence of 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 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 30 % in Caribbean; the lowest is 26.2 % in Melanesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 26.2 %, and the mean is 20.73 %.
Over the past decade 2 countries rose and 1 fell. The largest increase was in Australia and New Zealand (up 87.5%), and the largest decrease in Caribbean (down 13.8%).
Prevalence of severe food insecurity in the male adult population: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caribbean | 30 % | 2025 | down 13.8% | falling |
| 1 | Australia and New Zealand | 6 % | 2025 | up 87.5% | rising |
| 2 | Melanesia | 26.2 % | 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 35.6 %
- Low-income economies 27.7 %
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 24.6 %
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 23.8 %
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 24.5 %
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 19.8 %
- Eastern Africa 22.6 %
- Asia 8.3 %
- Sub-Saharan Africa 22.5 %
- Western Africa 20.2 %
- Africa 20 %
- Southern Asia 16.2 %
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 15.8 %
- Lower-middle-income economies 15.6 %
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 15.1 %
- Western Asia 14.5 %
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 12.6 %
- Oceania 10.9 %
- Northern Africa 10.6 %
- Southern Africa 10.3 %
- World 8.7 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 6.2 %
- Central America 6.2 %
- Northern Europe 4.3 %
- South America 4.2 %
- Central Asia 4 %
- Western Europe 3 %
- Europe 2.6 %
- Upper-middle-income economies 2.5 %
- High-income economies 2.3 %
- Northern America and Europe 2.1 %
- South-eastern Asia 1.7 %
- Eastern Europe 1.7 %
- Southern Europe 1.6 %
- Eastern Asia 1.4 %
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 1.4 %
- Northern America 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.