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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.

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Global Report on Food Crises · Edition 2023

HighestBangladesh

89

LowestIraq

3

Shaded 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

Global Report on Food Crises 2023: every country, as published by Food Security Information Network (FSIN).
derived
1BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia891,279,3281,440,698
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa637,744,00012,348,961
=3SyriaSYRWestern Asia5512,061,85622,095,247
=3YemenYEMWestern Asia5517,365,50031,900,000
5HaitiHTICaribbean484,724,3949,906,757
6AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia4619,903,99543,100,596
7Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa442,652,6936,091,097
8PakistanPAKSouthern Asia438,619,23419,785,905
9LebanonLBNWestern Asia371,984,0005,364,000
10MadagascarMDGEastern Africa362,225,0756,230,078
11SomaliaSOMEastern Africa335,594,29016,955,256
12NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa30750,3132,550,226
=13EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa29335,8041,171,233
=13KenyaKENEastern Africa294,354,54514,834,569
15Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia286,271,14322,159,516
16MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia2715,200,00056,000,000
17DR CongoCODMiddle Africa2626,429,376102,971,764
18UkraineUKREastern Europe258,900,00035,600,000
19SudanSDNNorthern Africa2411,653,06847,881,435
20LesothoLSOSouthern Africa23337,5111,475,113
21EthiopiaETHEastern Africa2123,610,000114,964,000
=22MalawiMWIEastern Africa203,822,50219,317,465
=22MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa20878,9204,359,275
=22ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa203,000,00015,300,000
=25LibyaLBYNorthern Africa19300,0001,553,277

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. 1Bangladesh89
  2. 2South Sudan63
  3. 3Syriashared55
  4. 3Yemenshared55
  5. 5Haiti48

Lowest

  1. 44Iraq3
  2. 42Ugandashared5
  3. 42Senegalshared5
  4. 39Malishared8
  5. 39Liberiashared8

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+

    HighestDR Congo26,429,376

    LowestCabo Verde46,093

    Middle country: 2,476,347

  • Population analysed

    HighestNigeria159,066,021

    LowestCabo 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

Fell most

+ Cabo Verde+ Sri Lanka+ Myanmar+ Ukraine− Côte d’Ivoire

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.

How values are stored
  • 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.

Licence in full

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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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.

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