According to the Global Hunger Index 2024, which was adopted by the International Food Policy Research Institute, Somalia was the most affected by hunger and malnutrition, with an index of 44.1. Yemen and Chad followed behind. The World Hunger Index combines three indicators: undernourishment, child underweight, and child mortality. Sub-Saharan Africa most affected The index is dominated by countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the region, more than one fifth of the population is undernourished . In terms of individuals, however, South Asia has the highest number of undernourished people. Globally, there are 735 million people that are considered undernourished or starving. A lack of food is increasing in over 20 countries worldwide. Undernourishment worldwide The term malnutrition includes both undernutrition and overnutrition. Undernutrition occurs when an individual cannot maintain normal bodily functions such as growth, recovering from disease, and both learning and physical work. Some conditions such as diarrhea, malaria, and HIV/AIDS can all have a negative impact on undernutrition. Rural and agricultural communities can be especially susceptible to hunger during certain seasons. The annual hunger gap occurs when a family’s food supply may run out before the next season’s harvest is available and can result in malnutrition. Nevertheless, the prevalence of people worldwide that are undernourished has decreased over the last decades, from 18.7 percent in 1990-92 to 9.2 percent in 2022, but it has slightly increased since the outbreak of COVID-19. According to the Global Hunger Index, the reduction of global hunger has stagnated over the past decade.

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger globally, regionally, and by country. Each year, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) calculates GHI scores in order to assess progress, or the lack thereof, in decreasing hunger. The GHI is designed to raise awareness and understanding of regional and country differences in the struggle against hunger. Since 2015, GHI scores have been calculated using a revised and improved formula. The revision replaces child underweight, previously the sole indicator of child undernutrition, with two indicators of child undernutrition—child wasting and child stunting—which are equally weighted in the GHI calculation. The revised formula also standardizes each of the component indicators to balance their contribution to the overall index and to changes in the GHI scores over time. The 2016 GHI has been calculated for 118 countries for which data on the four component indicators are available and where measuring hunger is considered most relevant. GHI scores are not calculated for some higher income countries where the prevalence of hunger is very low. The GHI is only as current as the data for its four component indicators. This year's GHI reflects the most recent available country-level data and projections available between 2011 and 2016. It therefore reflects the hunger levels during this period rather than solely capturing conditions in 2016. The 1992, 2000, 2008, and 2016 GHI scores reflect the latest revised data for the four component indicators of the GHI. Where original source data were not available, the estimates of the GHI component indicators were based on the most recent data available. The four component indicators used to calculate the GHI scores draw upon data from the following sources: 1. Undernourishment: Updated data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) were used for the 1992, 2000, 2008, and 2016 GHI scores. Undernourishment data and projections for the 2016 GHI are for 2014-2016. 2. Child wasting and stunting: The child undernutrition indicators of the GHI—child wasting and child stunting—include data from the joint database of United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Bank, and additional data from WHO's continuously updated Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition; the most recent Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) reports; and statistical tables from UNICEF. For the 2016 GHI, data on child wasting and child stunting are for the latest year for which data are available in the period 2011-2015. 3. Child mortality: Updated data from the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation were used for the 1992, 2000, 2008, and 2016 GHI scores. For the 2016 GHI, data on child mortality are from 2015. Resources related to 2016 Global Hunger Index 2016 Global Hunger Index Web App 2016 Global Hunger Index Linked Open Data (LOD) 2016 Global Hunger Index Report

According to the Global Hunger Index 2024, hunger worldwide decreased since 2000, but the pace of the reduction has slowed since 2016. In the Middle East and North Africa, for instance, the hunger index value was the same in 2024 as in 2016, and it had even increased marginally in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2024, Somalia had the highest index score worldwide, meaning it was the country where hunger was most prevalent. The World Hunger Index combines four indicators: undernourishment, child stunting, child wasting, and child mortality.

This report responds to requirements found in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA) and summarizes hunger, obesity, and Type II diabetes among American Indian and Alaska Native children living on or near reservations or other tribal lands (Indian Country). The report provides a summary of available statistics on hunger, obesity, and Type II diabetes among children living in Indian Country and offers comparable statistics for the general population for context and comparison.

In 2024, Somalia had the highest ranking Global Hunger Index (GHI) within Eastern African at 44.1, indicating an alarming hunger situation. The country has experienced heavy rainfall and flooding after an extended period of drought, which has led to food insecurity as a result. Mauritius scored the lowest GHI in the region, with a score of 12.8, representing a moderate foo insecurity.

In 2024, Zambia had the highest ranking Global Hunger Index (GHI) within Southern African at 30.7, indicating a serious hunger situation. The country has experienced its worst drought in decades, which has led to food and water being scarce. South Africa scored the lowest GHI in the region, with a score of 12.5, representing a moderate food insecurity.

Historical chart and dataset showing Brazil hunger statistics by year from 2001 to 2022.

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a comprehensive tool used to assess and rank the state of hunger worldwide. It provides valuable insights into the severity of hunger and malnutrition in various countries, highlighting the challenges faced by populations in accessing sufficient and nutritious food.

By analyzing multiple factors such as undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting, and child mortality, the Global Hunger Index presents a holistic picture of the hunger situation globally. The index takes into account both the prevalence and intensity of hunger, considering not only the lack of food but also the quality of nutrition and health outcomes.

Through its rankings, the Global Hunger Index aims to draw attention to regions and countries where hunger is most prevalent and urgent. It serves as a crucial tool for policymakers, organizations, and governments to identify areas requiring immediate intervention and to formulate effective strategies for combating hunger and improving food security.

Moreover, the Global Hunger Index plays a significant role in monitoring progress and identifying trends over time, enabling stakeholders to track improvements or setbacks in the fight against hunger. By regularly updating the index, it provides an objective measure to evaluate the effectiveness of policies and interventions implemented to address hunger-related challenges.

Ultimately, the Global Hunger Index serves as a call to action, urging global cooperation and collective efforts to eliminate hunger, promote sustainable agricultural practices, and ensure access to nutritious food for all.

Indonesia hunger statistics for 2022 was 7.20%, a 0.4% increase from 2021.

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<li>Indonesia hunger statistics for 2021 was <strong>6.80%</strong>, a <strong>0.5% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Indonesia hunger statistics for 2020 was <strong>6.30%</strong>, a <strong>0.1% increase</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>Indonesia hunger statistics for 2019 was <strong>6.20%</strong>, a <strong>0.3% increase</strong> from 2018.</li>
</ul>Population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption (also referred to as prevalence of undernourishment) shows the percentage of the population whose food intake is insufficient to meet dietary energy requirements continuously. Data showing as 5 may signify a prevalence of undernourishment below 5%.

According to the Global Hunger Index, India had an index value of **** in 2023. The composition of the index was a combination of different indicators such as undernourishment, child underweight, and child mortality. India's score indicates a serious level of hunger crisis, placing the country at a position of ***** out of 121 countries that year. However, the country had improved the situation from ** index points falling in the category of alarming level in 2000.

The Global Hunger Index ranks countries on a 100 point scale, with 0 being the best score ("no hunger") and 100 being the worst, though neither of these extremes is achieved in practice. The higher the score, the worse the food situation of a country. The GHI combines three equally weighted indicators: 1) the proportion of the undernourished as a percentage of the population; 2) the prevalence of underweight children under the age of five; 3) the mortality rate of children under the age of five.

Millions of people are at risk of starvation worldwide, many of these in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Across all five severity stages, Nigeria had the highest number of people at risk of starvation in 2025, with over 200 million. Almost 175 million of these fell within the two least severe stages.

France hunger statistics for 2022 was 2.50%, a 0% increase from 2021.

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<li>France hunger statistics for 2021 was <strong>2.50%</strong>, a <strong>0% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>France hunger statistics for 2020 was <strong>2.50%</strong>, a <strong>0% increase</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>France hunger statistics for 2019 was <strong>2.50%</strong>, a <strong>0% increase</strong> from 2018.</li>
</ul>Population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption (also referred to as prevalence of undernourishment) shows the percentage of the population whose food intake is insufficient to meet dietary energy requirements continuously. Data showing as 5 may signify a prevalence of undernourishment below 5%.

Global hunger index of Pakistan improved by 4.89% from 26.60 index in 2023 to 27.90 index in 2024. Since the 13.68% slump in 2020, global hunger index surged by 13.41% in 2024. The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger globally, regionally, and by country

This dataset measures food availability and access for 76 low- and middle-income countries. The dataset includes annual country-level data on area, yield, production, nonfood use, trade, and consumption for grains and root and tuber crops (combined as R&T in the documentation tables), food aid, total value of imports and exports, gross domestic product, and population compiled from a variety of sources. This dataset is the basis for the International Food Security Assessment 2015-2025 released in June 2015. This annual ERS report projects food availability and access for 76 low- and middle-income countries over a 10-year period. Countries (Spatial Description, continued): Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: CSV File for all years and all countries. File Name: gfa25.csvResource Title: International Food Security country data. File Name: GrainDemandProduction.xlsxResource Description: Excel files of individual country data. Please note that these files provide the data in a different layout from the CSV file. This version of the data files was updated 9-2-2021

More up-to-date files may be found at: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/international-food-security.aspx

As of February 15, 2024, about ** percent of the population of Afghanistan experienced and suffered from insufficient food consumption. It is only superseded by Somalia, where a share of ** percent of the population suffers from insufficient food intake. The ** countries shown here accounted for about ** percent of the total number of people with insufficient food consumption. Not all countries are included in the monitoring of the source. Insufficient food consumption covers individuals who eat staples and vegetables daily, and also consume vegetable oil and pulses a few times a week, and everyone who eats less than that.Compared to September 19, 2022, the share of people in the top 12 has grown by ***** percent.

Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agricultureGlobally, the proportion of undernourished people in the developing regions has fallen by almost half since 1990, from 23.3% in 1990-1992 to 12.9% in 2014-2016. However, one in nine people in the world today (795 million) are still undernourished.The vast majority of the world’s hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9% of the population is undernourished.Asia is the continent with the hungriest people – two-thirds of the total. The percentage in southern Asia has fallen in recent years, but in western Asia it has increased slightly.Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest prevalence (percentage of population) of hunger. About one person in four there is undernourished.Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children each year.One in four of the world’s children suffer stunted growth. In developing countries the proportion rises to one in three.66 million primary school-age children in developing countries attend classes hungry, with 23 million in Africa alone.Agriculture is the single largest employer in the world, providing livelihoods for 40% of today’s global population. It is the largest source of income and jobs for poor rural households.500 million small farms worldwide, most still rain fed, provide up to 80% of food consumed in a large part of the developing world. Investing in smallholder farmers is an important way to increase food security and nutrition for the poorest, as well as food production for local and global markets.In 1990, 53% of all Indian children were malnourished. In 2015, malnourishment declined to 40%.This map layer is offered by Esri India, for ArcGIS Online subscribers, If you have any questions or comments, please let us know via content@esri.in.

Samples_Mentions-only. Manual analysis of 100 papers that mentioned countries in the GHI categories but did not include any author affiliations from the same category. We aim to determine the precise subject under study, the regional nature of the paper, and the reason that no author affiliations were included.

Samples_Affiliations-only. Manual analysis of 100 papers that features authors affiliated to countries in the GHI categories but did not mention those same categories in the title or abstract of the paper. We aim to determine the precise subject under study, the regional nature of the paper, and the reason no country in the category was mentioned.

Abstract

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 2.1 commits countries to end hunger, ensure access by all people to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year around. Indicator 2.1.2, “Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)”, provides internationally-comparable estimates of the proportion of the population facing difficulties in accessing food. More detailed background information is available at http://www.fao.org/in-action/voices-of-the-hungry/fies/en/

The FIES-based indicators are compiled using the FIES survey module, containing 8 questions. Two indicators can be computed:
1. The proportion of the population experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity (SDG indicator 2.1.2), 2. The proportion of the population experiencing severe food insecurity.

These data were collected by FAO through the Gallup World Poll. General information on the methodology can be found here: https://www.gallup.com/178667/gallup-world-poll-work.aspx. National institutions can also collect FIES data by including the FIES survey module in nationally representative surveys.

Microdata can be used to calculate the indicator 2.1.2 at national level. Instructions for computing this indicator are described in the methodological document available in the downloads tab. Disaggregating results at sub-national level is not encouraged because estimates will suffer from substantial sampling and measurement error.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

Individuals

Universe

Individuals of 15 years or older with access to landline and/or mobile phones.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

With some exceptions, all samples are probability based and nationally representative of the resident adult population. The coverage area is the entire country including rural areas, and the sampling frame represents the entire civilian, non-institutionalized, aged 15 and older population. For more details on the overall sampling and data collection methodology, see the World poll methodology attached as a resource in the downloads tab. Specific sampling details for each country are also attached as technical documents in the downloads tab. Exclusions: NA Design effect: 1.31

Mode of data collection

Face-to-Face [f2f]

Cleaning operations

Statistical validation assesses the quality of the FIES data collected by testing their consistency with the assumptions of the Rasch model. This analysis involves the interpretation of several statistics that reveal 1) items that do not perform well in a given context, 2) cases with highly erratic response patterns, 3) pairs of items that may be redundant, and 4) the proportion of total variance in the population that is accounted for by the measurement model.

Sampling error estimates

The margin of error is estimated as 3.5. This is calculated around a proportion at the 95% confidence level. The maximum margin of error was calculated assuming a reported percentage of 50% and takes into account the design effect.

In 2022, global hunger index for Bolivia was 13.2 index. Though Bolivia global hunger index fluctuated substantially in recent years, it tended to decrease through 2001 - 2022 period ending at 13.2 index in 2022. The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger globally, regionally, and by country