Prevalence of severe food insecurity in the male adult population (percent) (annual value) — Value 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) — Value is currently reported for 3 countries. The highest value is 5.2 % in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 24.8 % in Melanesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 24.8 %, and the mean is 18.47 %.
Over the past decade 2 countries rose and 1 fell. The largest increase was in Australia and New Zealand (up 116.7%), and the largest decrease in Caribbean (down 10.6%).
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 | 5.2 % | 2025 | up 116.7% | rising |
| 2 | Caribbean | 25.4 % | 2025 | down 10.6% | falling |
| 2 | Melanesia | 24.8 % | 2025 | up 3.3% | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Middle Africa 34.4 %
- Low-income economies 27.1 %
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 23.9 %
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 21 %
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 23.4 %
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 19.2 %
- Sub-Saharan Africa 22 %
- Asia 7.7 %
- Eastern Africa 21.5 %
- Africa 19.5 %
- Western Africa 19.4 %
- Southern Asia 14.8 %
- Lower-middle-income economies 14.6 %
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 14.4 %
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 14.2 %
- Western Asia 13.8 %
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 12 %
- Oceania 10.2 %
- Northern Africa 9.8 %
- Southern Africa 9.6 %
- World 8.3 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 5.8 %
- Central America 5.8 %
- South America 3.9 %
- Northern Europe 3.6 %
- Central Asia 3.1 %
- Western Europe 2.5 %
- Upper-middle-income economies 2.4 %
- Europe 2.3 %
- High-income economies 2.1 %
- Northern America and Europe 1.9 %
- South-eastern Asia 1.5 %
- Eastern Europe 1.5 %
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 1.3 %
- Eastern Asia 1.2 %
- Southern Europe 1.2 %
- Northern America 0.9 %
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.