FSIN · Global Report on Food Crises
Acute food insecurity by country
What share of an analysed population faces crisis-level hunger or worse?
Of the 44 countries compared in 2024, El Salvador had the lowest reading, 3.0%, and South Sudan had the highest reading, 56.0%. In the middle country the figure was 22.0%. Among the 29 countries measured in every edition since 2016, the middle one moved from 12.0% to 22.0%.
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Acute food insecurity · 2024
Context statistic
Lowest of 44El Salvador
3.0%012024 · position · derived
Who leads
The three countries at the lowest end of 44 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
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3Photo: Rod Waddington from Kergunyah, Australia · CC BY-SA 2.0, greyscale
Highest in 2024
South Sudan56.0%
Sudan54.0%
Yemen48.0%
Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
Lowest on each continent
- Africa
2 countries share 5.0%
- AmericasEl Salvador3.0%
- Asia
Myanmar25.0% - Europe
Ukraine15.0%1 of 49 measured
- Every region
02Every measured country
Acute food insecurity on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a lower value — the better end.
- 33.0–56.0%
- 25.0–32.0%
- 19.0–24.0%
- 12.0–18.0%
- 3.0–11.0%
- No reading in 2024 (11 measured in an earlier edition)
- Americas
18.0%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 48 members
El Salvador3.0%
Haiti48.0%Lowest and highest reading in Americas.
- Africa
20.4%
the middle country, of 31 measured · 55 members
2 share 5.0%
South Sudan56.0%Lowest and highest reading in Africa.
- Asia
32.0%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 52 members
Myanmar25.0%Yemen48.0%Lowest and highest reading in Asia.
- Europe
1 of 49 measured — too few for a middle: Ukraine.
Ukraine15.0%Lowest and highest reading in Europe.
- Every region
12 sub-regions, lowest middle country first
- Western Africa
12.0%
the middle country, of 9 measured · 16 members
Senegal5.0%
Sierra Leone20.4%Lowest and highest reading in Western Africa.
- Middle Africa
22.0%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 9 members
Cameroon11.0%
Central African Republic41.0%Lowest and highest reading in Middle Africa.
- Eastern Africa
23.0%
the middle country, of 13 measured · 19 members
Uganda5.0%South Sudan56.0%Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Caribbean
1 of 24 measured — too few for a middle: Haiti.
Haiti48.0%Lowest and highest reading in Caribbean.
- Central America
3 of 8 measured — too few for a middle: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras.
El Salvador3.0%
Honduras19.0%Lowest and highest reading in Central America.
- Eastern Europe
1 of 10 measured — too few for a middle: Ukraine.
Ukraine15.0%Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Northern Africa
1 of 6 measured — too few for a middle: Sudan.
Sudan54.0%Lowest and highest reading in Northern Africa.
- South America
1 of 12 measured — too few for a middle: Colombia.
Colombia15.0%Lowest and highest reading in South America.
- South-eastern Asia
1 of 11 measured — too few for a middle: Myanmar.
Myanmar25.0%Lowest and highest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Southern Africa
3 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia.
Eswatini25.0%
Namibia41.0%Lowest and highest reading in Southern Africa.
- Southern Asia
3 of 9 measured — too few for a middle: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan.
Bangladesh26.0%
Afghanistan36.0%Lowest and highest reading in Southern Asia.
- Western Asia
3 of 19 measured — too few for a middle: Lebanon, Syria, Yemen.
Lebanon30.0%Yemen48.0%Lowest and highest reading in Western Asia.
03The whole field at once
The spread
44 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 22.0%; a quarter are above 31.3%, and a quarter below 13.8%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 55 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first — position 1 is the highest value, the way FSIN’s own tables read. “=” marks a position shared with another country. Food Security Information Network (FSIN) ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. The share is of the population FSIN analysed, not of the country, which is how FSIN computes it — reading it as a national percentage would overstate every figure. And this is not a world ranking: only countries already in acute food crisis are assessed, so an absent country usually has no crisis.
Showing 25 of 55 countries
Values for 2024. The change column compares 2024 with 2023 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.
052016–2024 · 9 editions
Over time
Each point is one annual edition, and each describes the PREVIOUS year — which is why the report year and the data year differ throughout.
- the middle country
- the middle half of countries
- the middle of the 29 countries measured every time
- each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
| Year | Countries | Middle country | Middle half | Measured every time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 44 | 22.0% | 13.8% – 31.3% | 22.0% |
| 2023 | 45 | 23.0% | 13.0% – 32.0% | 22.0% |
| 2022 | 44 | 20.0% | 12.0% – 30.8% | 20.0% |
| 2021 | 41 | 20.0% | 10.0% – 35.0% | 21.0% |
| 2020 | 42 | 16.0% | 10.0% – 30.8% | 16.0% |
| 2019 | 41 | 15.0% | 4.0% – 32.0% | 22.0% |
| 2018 | 40 | 11.0% | 5.0% – 25.3% | 14.0% |
| 2017 | 42 | 13.5% | 7.0% – 30.8% | 24.0% |
| 2016 | 41 | 9.0% | 3.0% – 24.0% | 12.0% |
062023 → 2024
Who rose and fell
The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.
Improved most
before → after
Kenya32.0% → 12.0% · 11th → 36th−20.0
Syria55.0% → 39.0% · 3rd → 7th−16.0
Somalia39.0% → 23.0% · 9th → 21st−16.0
Madagascar36.0% → 22.0% · 10th → 22nd−14.0- Lebanon42.0% → 30.0% · 7th → 13th−12.0
44 countries were measured in both 2023 and 2024. The field changed from 45 to 44 countries, so a place can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the country itself.
07Across every edition
Acute food insecurity in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading on record
89.0%
In IPC Phase 3+ (% of analysed population)
Lowest reading on record
Reached 4 times by 3 countries — shared, so no holder is named
0.0%
In IPC Phase 3+ (% of analysed population)
Biggest improvement between editions
−58.0
89.0% → 31.0%
Biggest decline between editions
+57.0
27.0% → 84.0%
Most improved since first measured
−30.0
52.0% → 22.0%
At the top most often
2 of 9
editions, alone at the first-listed end
08The measure
About acute food insecurity
The Global Report on Food Crises measures the share of an analysed population in IPC Phase 3 or above — crisis-level acute food insecurity or worse. Compiled by the Food Security Information Network, it is the reference document for where famine risk is being tracked.
What the number is: In IPC Phase 3+ (% of analysed population).
09Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Health & Wellbeing and Risk & Resilience and Food & Agriculture, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Health & WellbeingRisk & ResilienceFood & AgricultureWhich statistics vote, and why
Moves with
Where acute food insecurity is higher, these tend to be higher too.
No statistic lines up this closely.
Moves against
Where acute food insecurity is higher, these tend to be lower.
No statistic lines up this closely.
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 0 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
10Keep reading
Explore further
The countries at either end
11Questions
Acute food insecurity: questions and answers
Which country has the lowest acute food insecurity?
El Salvador, at 3.0%, among the 44 countries compared in 2024.
Which country has the highest acute food insecurity?
South Sudan, at 56.0%, among the 44 countries compared in 2024.
How many countries does the Global Report on Food Crises cover?
44 in 2024, and 55 at least once across all editions. The number measured varies from 40 to 45 between editions.
What is the world average acute food insecurity?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 44 compared in 2024, the figure was 22.0%.
Is this Food Security Information Network (FSIN)’s own ranking?
No. Food Security Information Network (FSIN) publishes the values but ranks nobody; the position on this page is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values, and equal values share a position.
How often is the Global Report on Food Crises published?
This site holds 9 editions, describing 2016 to 2024.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From Food Security Information Network (FSIN), under CC BY 4.0. From FSIN’s published GRFC tables, using only its own whole-country rows marked as included in the report. Where FSIN reports a country solely as sub-populations it is absent rather than summed — Palestine is the case that matters, published as Gaza Strip and West Bank with no combined figure. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
12Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Global Report on Food Crises — Food Security Information Network (FSIN)
From FSIN’s published GRFC tables, using only its own whole-country rows marked as included in the report. Where FSIN reports a country solely as sub-populations it is absent rather than summed — Palestine is the case that matters, published as Gaza Strip and West Bank with no combined figure.
Newest edition
Report year 2025Data year 2024
Cite the source as: Food Security Information Network. Global Report on Food Crises. Rome: FSIN and Global Network Against Food Crises.
Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-09-05.
How this page reads the numbers
- Food Security Information Network (FSIN) ranks nobody on this measure. The position is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values; equal values share a position.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- El Salvador — Renemgb, CC0
- Senegal — Arensond, CC0
- Uganda — Rod Waddington from Kergunyah, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Acute food insecurity by country: Global Report on Food Crises, data from Food Security Information Network (FSIN). https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/food-crises