Edition 2023
Global Report on Food Crises 2023
Published 2023 · describes 2022 · stored as published, never rewritten
Global Report on Food Crises 2023 covers 44 countries on 3 measures. Bangladesh is highest, at 89; Iraq is lowest, at 3. The middle country reads 20. Against the 2022 edition, 37 values changed (20 up, 17 down), 4 countries joined, 1 left.
Global Report on Food Crises · Edition 2023
HighestBangladesh
89LowestIraq
3Shaded 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 2023, 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 44 countries · select a heading to sort
| derived | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BGDSouthern Asia | 89 | 1,279,328 | 1,440,698 |
| 2 | SSDEastern Africa | 63 | 7,744,000 | 12,348,961 |
| =3 | SYRWestern Asia | 55 | 12,061,856 | 22,095,247 |
| =3 | YEMWestern Asia | 55 | 17,365,500 | 31,900,000 |
| 5 | HTICaribbean | 48 | 4,724,394 | 9,906,757 |
| 6 | AFGSouthern Asia | 46 | 19,903,995 | 43,100,596 |
| 7 | CAFMiddle Africa | 44 | 2,652,693 | 6,091,097 |
| 8 | PAKSouthern Asia | 43 | 8,619,234 | 19,785,905 |
| 9 | LBNWestern Asia | 37 | 1,984,000 | 5,364,000 |
| 10 | MDGEastern Africa | 36 | 2,225,075 | 6,230,078 |
| 11 | SOMEastern Africa | 33 | 5,594,290 | 16,955,256 |
| 12 | NAMSouthern Africa | 30 | 750,313 | 2,550,226 |
| =13 | SWZSouthern Africa | 29 | 335,804 | 1,171,233 |
| =13 | KENEastern Africa | 29 | 4,354,545 | 14,834,569 |
| 15 | LKASouthern Asia | 28 | 6,271,143 | 22,159,516 |
| 16 | MMRSouth-eastern Asia | 27 | 15,200,000 | 56,000,000 |
| 17 | CODMiddle Africa | 26 | 26,429,376 | 102,971,764 |
| 18 | UKREastern Europe | 25 | 8,900,000 | 35,600,000 |
| 19 | SDNNorthern Africa | 24 | 11,653,068 | 47,881,435 |
| 20 | LSOSouthern Africa | 23 | 337,511 | 1,475,113 |
| 21 | ETHEastern Africa | 21 | 23,610,000 | 114,964,000 |
| =22 | MWIEastern Africa | 20 | 3,822,502 | 19,317,465 |
| =22 | MRTWestern Africa | 20 | 878,920 | 4,359,275 |
| =22 | ZWEEastern Africa | 20 | 3,000,000 | 15,300,000 |
| =25 | LBYNorthern Africa | 19 | 300,000 | 1,553,277 |
| =25 | SLEWestern Africa | 19 | 1,605,719 | 8,605,845 |
| 27 | NERWestern Africa | 18 | 4,402,406 | 24,933,140 |
| =28 | BFAWestern Africa | 16 | 3,453,510 | 21,253,895 |
| =28 | DJIEastern Africa | 16 | 192,168 | 1,181,675 |
| 30 | ZMBEastern Africa | 14 | 1,952,123 | 13,490,313 |
| =31 | CMRMiddle Africa | 13 | 3,597,014 | 27,190,906 |
| =31 | TCDMiddle Africa | 13 | 2,098,861 | 15,800,189 |
| =33 | BDIEastern Africa | 12 | 1,403,868 | 12,045,234 |
| =33 | NGAWestern Africa | 12 | 19,453,305 | 159,066,021 |
| 35 | GINWestern Africa | 11 | 1,219,288 | 11,165,931 |
| =36 | CPVWestern Africa | 10 | 46,093 | 483,627 |
| =36 | MOZEastern Africa | 10 | 3,146,423 | 31,966,572 |
| =36 | TZAEastern Africa | 10 | 1,110,784 | 10,506,240 |
| =39 | GMBWestern Africa | 8 | 207,666 | 2,444,250 |
| =39 | LBRWestern Africa | 8 | 373,230 | 4,799,779 |
| =39 | MLIWestern Africa | 8 | 1,841,067 | 21,696,914 |
| =42 | SENWestern Africa | 5 | 881,276 | 17,738,771 |
| =42 | UGAEastern Africa | 5 | 2,300,000 | 44,200,000 |
| 44 | IRQWestern Asia | 3 | 196,313 | 6,152,486 |
02In 2022
At either end
The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.
Highest
- 1
Bangladesh89
- 2
South Sudan63
- 3
Syriashared55
- 3
Yemenshared55
- 5
Haiti48
A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 20. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.
Each measure’s ends
People in Phase 3+
Highest
DR Congo26,429,376
Lowest
Cabo Verde46,093
Middle country: 2,476,347
Population analysed
Highest
Nigeria159,066,021
Lowest
Cabo Verde483,627
Middle country: 15,067,285
032022 → 2023
Since the 2022 edition
What changed between the 2022 edition and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.
- +4 / −1countries joined / left
- 37values changed, of 40 in both
- 20 · 17rose · fell
- 3unchanged
Rose most
Pakistan25 → 43+18
Libya6 → 19+13
Kenya16 → 29+13
Somalia22 → 33+11
Mauritania11 → 20+9
Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.
04Caveats
Read before you use
What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.
This edition describes 2022
FSIN names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Global Report on Food Crises 2023 are for 2022.
31 distinct values among 44
Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 3 countries share 20. 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 44 countries has every column.
05The files
Download and cite
The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.
- .csv
For a spreadsheet or code
44 rows · 2.9 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel
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The publisher’s original
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.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words
Cite this edition
Food Security Information Network (FSIN) (2023). Global Report on Food Crises 2023 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/food-crises/2023
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Other editions
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Global Report on Food Crises 2022describes 2021 · 41 countries
The edition after ›
Global Report on Food Crises 2024describes 2023 · 45 countries
All of them
Global Report on Food Crises: every edition9 held, with the data dictionary, coverage and licence.
How it has moved, charted by country
07Questions
Global Report on Food Crises 2023: questions and answers
Which country has the highest acute food insecurity in Global Report on Food Crises 2023?
Bangladesh, at 89, of the 44 countries in the file.
What year does Global Report on Food Crises 2023 describe?
2022.
How many countries does Global Report on Food Crises 2023 cover?
44.
Where can I download Global Report on Food Crises 2023?
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 2023 the newest?
No. The newest held here is Global Report on Food Crises 2025.