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Global Report on Food Crises 2025

Published 2025 · describes 2024 · stored as published, never rewritten

Global Report on Food Crises 2025 covers 44 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 56.0; El Salvador is lowest, at 3.0. The middle country reads 22.0. Against the 2024 edition, 37 values changed (18 up, 19 down), 1 left.

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Global Report on Food Crises · Edition 2025

HighestSouth Sudan

56.0

LowestEl Salvador

3.0

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 2025, 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 2025: every country, as published by Food Security Information Network (FSIN).
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa56.07,099,00012,613,120
2SudanSDNNorthern Africa54.025,597,40047,208,125
=3HaitiHTICaribbean48.05,407,89811,214,605
=3YemenYEMWestern Asia48.016,652,36334,676,420
=5Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa41.02,534,0486,128,671
=5NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa41.01,255,6423,022,401
7SyriaSYRWestern Asia39.09,155,81723,703,857
8AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia36.015,823,67944,532,600
9ZambiaZMBEastern Africa33.05,832,34217,766,278
=10PakistanPAKSouthern Asia32.011,809,09436,702,048
=10ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa32.04,990,00015,675,158
12Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa31.01,794,3966,220,626
13LebanonLBNWestern Asia30.01,653,9915,587,322
14MalawiMWIEastern Africa28.05,692,12320,270,568
15LesothoLSOSouthern Africa27.0402,7571,505,411
16BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia26.023,577,15790,887,951
=17EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa25.0303,7251,204,835
=17MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia25.014,350,73156,874,593
=19DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa24.0285,0001,181,675
=19MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa24.04,890,22720,273,959
21SomaliaSOMEastern Africa23.04,388,11018,706,931
=22DR CongoCODMiddle Africa22.025,552,751115,881,715
=22MadagascarMDGEastern Africa22.01,706,9297,732,732
24Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa20.41,569,8957,703,563
25ChadTCDMiddle Africa20.03,364,45317,141,911

02In 2024

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan56.0
  2. 2Sudan54.0
  3. 3Haitishared48.0
  4. 3Yemenshared48.0
  5. 5Central African Republicshared41.0

Lowest

  1. 44El Salvador3.0
  2. 42Ugandashared5.0
  3. 42Senegalshared5.0
  4. 41Mali6.0
  5. 40Guinea7.0

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 22.0. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • People in Phase 3+

    HighestNigeria31,758,164

    LowestEl Salvador189,000

    Middle country: 3,088,065

  • Population analysed

    HighestNigeria200,345,877

    LowestDjibouti1,181,675

    Middle country: 17,684,355

032024 → 2025

Since the 2024 edition

What changed between the 2024 edition and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 37values changed, of 44 in both
  • 18 · 19rose · fell
  • 7unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Sri Lanka

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 2024

    FSIN names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Global Report on Food Crises 2025 are for 2024.

  • 31 distinct values among 44

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 48.0. 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) (2025). Global Report on Food Crises 2025 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/food-crises/2025

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07Questions

Global Report on Food Crises 2025: questions and answers

Which country has the highest acute food insecurity in Global Report on Food Crises 2025?

South Sudan, at 56.0, of the 44 countries in the file.

What year does Global Report on Food Crises 2025 describe?

2024.

How many countries does Global Report on Food Crises 2025 cover?

44.

Where can I download Global Report on Food Crises 2025?

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 2025 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-06, when it was read from the publisher.

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