Key Statistics
In 2023, this many people in 59 food-crisis countries were forcibly displaced due to conflict and food insecurity.
What is 90 million?
In 2023, conflict was the leading driver of food insecurity, affecting this many people worldwide.
What is 135 million?
In 2023, this many children under five in food-crisis countries were suffering from acute malnutrition.
What is 36 million?
In the Sudan, immediate humanitarian action is needed to prevent famine in these regions during the 2024 lean season.
What are Khartoum, Gezira, Greater Darfur, and Greater Kordofan?
In 2023, this percentage of the global population analyzed in the report faced high levels of acute food insecurity.
What is over 20%?
Economic shocks were the primary cause of food insecurity in these 21 countries.
What are food-crisis countries like Haiti and Sudan?
A child suffering from severe acute malnutrition is up to this many times more likely to die than a well-nourished child.
What is 12 times?
This percentage of Gaza Strip’s population was internally displaced by December 2023 due to conflict.
What is 80%?
This African country declared a national disaster in 2024 due to drought conditions linked to El Niño.
What is Malawi? (Also Zambia and Zimbabwe)
The hottest year on record, driven by El Niño and climate change, occurred in this year.
What is 2023?
Q: In 2023, 20 countries faced critical levels of child wasting, with many in this region.
What is sub-Saharan Africa?
The total funding required to address acute food insecurity in 2023 exceeded this amount in U.S. dollars.
What is $60 billion?
In 2024, the total number of people in need of humanitarian assistance worldwide was projected to exceed this number.
What is 250 million?
Rising global prices of these two essential items were major contributors to economic shocks driving food crises.
What are fuel and food?
By the end of 2023, conflict and lack of access to health services left nearly half of children under five in this country acutely malnourished.
What is Yemen?
In this country, floods and economic collapse displaced millions, leading to widespread food insecurity in 2023.
What is Pakistan