Edition 2017
Global Report on Food Crises 2017
Published 2017 · describes 2016 · stored as published, never rewritten
Global Report on Food Crises 2017 covers 41 countries on 3 measures. Madagascar is highest, at 52; 6 countries share the lowest reading, 1. The middle country reads 9.
Global Report on Food Crises · Edition 2017
HighestMadagascar
52Lowest6 countries share it
1Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.
01Position · derived
The table
Every country and every column of Global Report on Food Crises 2017, as published. FSIN ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.
Showing 25 of 41 countries · select a heading to sort
| derived | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MadagascarMDGEastern Africa | 52 | 848,659 | 1,631,545 |
| 2 |  YemenYEMWestern Asia | 51 | 14,119,280 | 27,428,000 |
| 3 |  MalawiMWIEastern Africa | 46 | 6,700,000 | 14,500,000 |
| 4 |  ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa | 42 | 4,071,532 | 9,623,278 |
| 5 |  South SudanSSDEastern Africa | 41 | 4,935,000 | 11,845,855 |
| 6 |  Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa | 40 | 2,008,856 | 5,053,330 |
| 7 |  EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa | 38 | 350,069 | 910,543 |
| =8 |  LesothoLSOSouthern Africa | 36 | 510,257 | 1,412,131 |
| =8 |  SyriaSYRWestern Asia | 36 | 6,745,678 | 18,600,000 |
| 10 |  AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia | 31 | 8,458,268 | 26,490,799 |
| 11 |  SomaliaSOMEastern Africa | 24 | 2,912,000 | 12,327,530 |
| 12 |  BurundiBDIEastern Africa | 23 | 2,286,033 | 9,351,450 |
| 13 |  DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa | 22 | 196,910 | 900,000 |
| 14 |  North KoreaPRKEastern Asia | 17 | 4,261,635 | 25,300,000 |
| =15 |  HaitiHTICaribbean | 15 | 1,500,000 | 10,300,000 |
| =15 |  MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa | 15 | 1,910,536 | 12,451,985 |
| 17 |  SudanSDNNorthern Africa | 12 | 4,415,355 | 37,127,057 |
| 18 |  KenyaKENEastern Africa | 11 | 1,254,600 | 11,123,392 |
| =19 |  EthiopiaETHEastern Africa | 9 | 9,700,000 | 102,900,000 |
| =19 |  GuatemalaGTMCentral America | 9 | 1,500,000 | 16,300,000 |
| =19 |  NigeriaNGAWestern Africa | 9 | 8,081,077 | 91,969,254 |
| =22 |  ChadTCDMiddle Africa | 8 | 1,052,436 | 12,903,715 |
| =22 |  DR CongoCODMiddle Africa | 8 | 5,895,844 | 71,651,112 |
| =24 |  Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa | 6 | 66,203 | 1,142,909 |
| =24 |  LibyaLBYNorthern Africa | 6 | 363,500 | 6,400,000 |
| =26 |  Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa | 4 | 800,000 | 19,400,000 |
| =26 |  IraqIRQWestern Asia | 4 | 1,500,000 | 36,000,000 |
| =28 |  CameroonCMRMiddle Africa | 3 | 288,928 | 9,295,534 |
| =28 |  GambiaGMBWestern Africa | 3 | 64,287 | 1,920,098 |
| =28 |  MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa | 3 | 118,851 | 3,735,019 |
| =28 |  SenegalSENWestern Africa | 3 | 345,049 | 11,907,105 |
| =32 |  HondurasHNDCentral America | 2 | 100,000 | 4,500,000 |
| =32 |  MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia | 2 | 700,000 | 35,000,000 |
| =32 |  NigerNERWestern Africa | 2 | 326,697 | 18,044,597 |
| =32 |  Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa | 2 | 159,003 | 6,369,763 |
| =36 |  Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa | 1 | 233,319 | 18,936,014 |
| =36 |  GuineaGINWestern Africa | 1 | 90,707 | 8,861,680 |
| =36 |  LiberiaLBRWestern Africa | 1 | 52,960 | 4,197,432 |
| =36 |  MaliMLIWestern Africa | 1 | 240,661 | 18,343,082 |
| =36 |  NepalNPLSouthern Asia | 1 | 430,000 | 28,900,000 |
| =36 |  UgandaUGAEastern Africa | 1 | 390,165 | 37,240,450 |
02In 2016
At either end
The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.
Highest
- 1Madagascar52
- 2Yemen51
- 3Malawi46
- 4Zimbabwe42
- 5South Sudan41
A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 9. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.
Each measure’s ends
03Caveats
Read before you use
What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.
This edition describes 2016
FSIN names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Global Report on Food Crises 2017 are for 2016.
23 distinct values among 41
Values are stored exactly as published. 6 countries share 1. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
The position is ours
FSIN publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 41 countries has every column.
04The files
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FSIN’s own file, on its own site.
grfc_afi_database_2016-2025_september_update.xlsx
What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
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Cite this edition
Food Security Information Network (FSIN) (2017). Global Report on Food Crises 2017 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/food-crises/2017
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06Questions
Global Report on Food Crises 2017: questions and answers
Which country has the highest acute food insecurity in Global Report on Food Crises 2017?
Madagascar, at 52, of the 41 countries in the file.
What year does Global Report on Food Crises 2017 describe?
2016.
How many countries does Global Report on Food Crises 2017 cover?
41.
Where can I download Global Report on Food Crises 2017?
On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.
Is Global Report on Food Crises 2017 the newest?
No. The newest held here is Global Report on Food Crises 2025.