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Global Report on Food Crises 2024

Published 2024 · describes 2023 · stored as published, never rewritten

Global Report on Food Crises 2024 covers 45 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 63; Colombia is lowest, at 3. The middle country reads 23. Against the 2023 edition, 33 values changed (15 up, 18 down), 5 countries joined, 4 left.

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Global Report on Food Crises · Edition 2024

HighestSouth Sudan

63

LowestColombia

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 2024, 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 45 countries · select a heading to sort

Global Report on Food Crises 2024: every country, as published by Food Security Information Network (FSIN).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa637,764,00012,374,205
2YemenYEMWestern Asia5618,000,00032,000,000
3SyriaSYRWestern Asia5512,878,31923,407,636
4HaitiHTICaribbean494,890,2339,906,757
5AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia4619,903,99543,100,596
6Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa442,652,6936,091,097
=7LebanonLBNWestern Asia422,260,0005,364,000
=7SudanSDNNorthern Africa4220,293,35248,579,711
9SomaliaSOMEastern Africa396,583,23016,955,266
10MadagascarMDGEastern Africa362,225,0756,230,078
=11KenyaKENEastern Africa325,438,21516,618,409
=11PakistanPAKSouthern Asia3211,809,09436,702,048
=13BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia3111,914,08638,236,840
=13Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa311,903,5126,220,626
15NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa26695,0002,642,000
=16DR CongoCODMiddle Africa2525,840,744102,971,764
=16HondurasHNDCentral America252,418,1929,745,149
=18DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa24285,4131,181,675
=18EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa24282,8361,188,391
=18GuatemalaGTMCentral America244,273,09817,602,431
=18Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia245,514,90022,602,051
=22ZambiaZMBEastern Africa232,037,7109,134,417
=22ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa233,500,00015,400,000
=24LesothoLSOSouthern Africa22324,8471,495,243
=24MalawiMWIEastern Africa224,402,00019,692,000

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Lowest

  1. 45Colombia3
  2. 44Uganda4
  3. 42Malishared6
  4. 42Guineashared6
  5. 41Senegal7

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 23. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • People in Phase 3+

    HighestDR Congo25,840,744

    LowestEswatini282,836

    Middle country: 3,012,103

  • Population analysed

    HighestNigeria193,612,894

    LowestDjibouti1,181,675

    Middle country: 16,955,266

032023 → 2024

Since the 2023 edition

What changed between the 2023 edition and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +5 / −4countries joined / left
  • 33values changed, of 40 in both
  • 15 · 18rose · fell
  • 7unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Republic of the Congo+ Colombia+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ El Salvador− Cabo Verde− Gambia− Iraq− Libya

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 2023

    FSIN names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Global Report on Food Crises 2024 are for 2023.

  • 29 distinct values among 45

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 4 countries share 24. 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 45 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) (2024). Global Report on Food Crises 2024 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/food-crises/2024

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07Questions

Global Report on Food Crises 2024: questions and answers

Which country has the highest acute food insecurity in Global Report on Food Crises 2024?

South Sudan, at 63, of the 45 countries in the file.

What year does Global Report on Food Crises 2024 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Global Report on Food Crises 2024 cover?

45.

Where can I download Global Report on Food Crises 2024?

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 2024 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Global Report on Food Crises 2025.

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