Prevalence of Undernourishment

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: undernourishment-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Prevalence of Undernourishment: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	165	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	165	0
Population undernourished (%)undernourishmentHeadline	The headline figure: Population undernourished (%).	Number · up to 1 decimal	2.562 share it54.2Haitimiddle 5.2	83	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

The newest 12 of 23 years.

Not in this dataset · 56 places this site covers

FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBahrainBermudaBhutanBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBurundiCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoEquatorial GuineaEritreaFaroe IslandsGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamIsle of ManJapanKosovoLaosLesothoLiechtensteinMaldivesMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePuerto RicoQatarSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSan MarinoSingaporeSint MaartenSomalilandTaiwanTongaTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican CityYemen

1. 1 · Publisher

   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

   fao.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Prevalence of Undernourishment 2023

   SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 6, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   23 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as undernourishment-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/undernourishment

Produced by the FAO and pulled through the World Bank’s indicator API (SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS). Read it beside severe food insecurity, which asks people directly and will not agree.