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Food insecurity

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.

Unit: % of population. Original provider definition and metadata ↗

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Covered economies, 2023

EconomyValue
Afghanistan80.8%
Albania33.0%
Algeria17.6%
Angola76.6%
Antigua and Barbuda13.5%
Argentina33.8%
Armenia7.8%
Australia13.8%
Austria4.7%
Azerbaijan14.0%
Bangladesh26.0%
Belarus1.1%
Belgium8.1%
Belize16.5%
Benin65.6%
Bolivia25.7%
Bosnia and Herzegovina9.9%
Botswana52.8%
Brazil13.3%
Bulgaria11.6%
Burkina Faso41.4%
Burundi70.8%
Cabo Verde32.1%
Cambodia40.0%
Cameroon61.2%
Canada10.2%
Chad66.3%
Chile18.1%
Colombia28.9%
Comoros79.7%
Congo, Dem. Rep.81.5%
Costa Rica15.4%
Cote d'Ivoire38.4%
Croatia6.0%
Cyprus1.4%
Czechia10.0%
Denmark6.9%
Dominican Republic43.8%
Ecuador33.3%
Egypt, Arab Rep.30.8%
El Salvador45.5%
Estonia10.8%
Eswatini59.0%
Ethiopia61.4%
Finland13.4%
France8.4%
Gambia, The54.8%
Georgia26.6%
Germany4.1%
Ghana44.5%
Greece6.7%
Grenada17.3%
Guatemala48.8%
Guyana25.5%
Haiti83.4%
Honduras41.3%
Hungary15.6%
Iceland7.8%
Indonesia4.5%
Iran, Islamic Rep.38.8%
Ireland4.8%
Israel9.2%
Italy1.7%
Jamaica56.4%
Japan5.8%
Kazakhstan1.7%
Kenya73.9%
Kiribati42.9%
Korea, Rep.5.4%
Kuwait8.4%
Lao PDR35.6%
Latvia11.2%
Lebanon42.4%
Lesotho59.9%
Liberia80.8%
Libya35.1%
Lithuania6.5%
Luxembourg2.6%
Madagascar60.1%
Malawi81.7%
Malaysia16.7%
Mali20.6%
Malta9.2%
Mauritania66.3%
Mauritius31.1%
Mexico17.9%
Moldova25.1%
Mongolia4.7%
Montenegro10.4%
Myanmar32.7%
Namibia55.9%
Nepal36.6%
Netherlands7.5%
New Zealand17.3%
Niger50.9%
Nigeria74.8%
North Macedonia15.2%
Norway7.8%
Pakistan22.6%
Palau28.1%
Peru35.9%
Philippines32.9%
Poland3.4%
Portugal11.9%
Romania18.6%
Russian Federation3.0%
Samoa18.6%
Senegal29.1%
Serbia9.5%
Sierra Leone89.8%
Singapore9.5%
Slovak Republic7.5%
Slovenia8.2%
South Africa20.3%
Spain6.5%
Sri Lanka11.2%
Sweden6.9%
Switzerland2.0%
Tajikistan25.1%
Tanzania58.0%
Thailand5.4%
Togo58.5%
Trinidad and Tobago27.6%
Tunisia25.4%
Uganda54.6%
Ukraine32.5%
United Arab Emirates3.6%
United Kingdom6.9%
United States10.4%
Uruguay16.2%
Viet Nam10.7%
Zambia45.3%
Zimbabwe68.8%

Snapshot retrieval: 2026-11-01. Coverage is limited to the atlas comparison set. Download and limitations.