Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population

The percentage of people in the population who live in households classified as moderately or severely food insecure. A household is classified as moderately or severely food insecure when at least one adult in the household has reported to have been exposed, at times during the year, to low quality diets and might have been forced to also reduce the quantity of food they would normally eat because of a lack of money or other resources.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
157
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

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  1. Produced by

    Food and Agriculture Organization

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan202380.80percent
Albania202333percent
Algeria202317.60percent
Antigua and Barbuda202313.50percent
Argentina202333.80percent
Armenia20237.80percent
Australia202313.80percent
Austria20234.70percent
Azerbaijan202314percent
Belarus20231.10percent

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