Food insecurity experienced by people, 2023–2025

FAOSTAT Food Insecurity Experience Scale · 2023–2025 source interpreted as one representative average year

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Data

What the source shows

Main result125 complete country or territory prevalence records

Additional result99 exact population records; 26 censored records reported per 100,000 only

Time basis2023–2025 source interpreted as one representative average year

Main takeaway

FIES directly records food-access experiences across a broad country and territory set.

Keep in mind

The source period is treated as a representative average year. Population values are censored for 26 records, and moderate-only confidence intervals are not derived.

Charts

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Severe food insecurity across 125 records

Bar chart of severe FIES prevalence bands across 125 records.

Validated FAOSTAT FIES extract, 2023-2025.

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Four measures, four questions

Four headline measures of hunger and malnutrition.

SOFI 2026, GRFC 2026, and JME 2025 edition.

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USU Research

Experimental retrospective annualized USU scenario

Central experimental result2.66 million annualized USU per 100,000

Median range: 263,721–5,732,063 USU per 100,000Deterministic model range, not a confidence interval

Model assumptions

Moderate-only intensity 2/3/4 with 10/70/115 days; severe intensity 4/5/6 with 7/50/85 days; p=1; no overlap adjustment; mortality separate. P2 evidence-informed intensity; D1 illustrative duration.

Reports and data

Public brief

A short summary of the data, experimental result, and main limitations.

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Full report

Source context, mappings, calculations, results, and interpretation.

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Technical methods: assumptions and reproducibility note.

Machine-readable data: per-100,000 results and exact-total results.