Prevalence of undernourishment (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...
Prevalence of undernourishment (percent) (annual value) — Value: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
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Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Low-income economies 30.4 %
- Middle Africa 28.9 %
- Melanesia 26.9 %
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 25.9 %
- Eastern Africa 25.6 %
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 20.9 %
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 24.8 %
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 16.3 %
- Sub-Saharan Africa 22.2 %
- Asia 6 %
- Africa 20 %
- Polynesia 2.6 %
- Western Africa 16.9 %
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 16.8 %
- Caribbean 16.6 %
- Western Asia 13 %
- Southern Africa 12.3 %
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 11.5 %
- Lower-middle-income economies 10.8 %
- Northern Africa 9.8 %
- Southern Asia 9.3 %
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 9.1 %
- Oceania 8 %
- World 7.8 %
- South-Eastern Asia 5.1 %
- Central America 5.1 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 4.8 %
- South America 3.5 %
- Central Asia 2.8 %
- Eastern Asia 2.6 %
- Upper-middle-income economies 2.6 %
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 2.6 %
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.