Acute world hunger on the rise

Up to 135 million people were living in food crises in 2019 – up from 113 million a year earlier, according to the World Food Programme


FOOD CRISES, 2019 (one million people or more in Crisis* or worse) 

Yemen		15.9 million people (53% of population)
D.R. Congo	15.6m (26%)
Afghanistan 	11.3m (37%)
Venezuela 	9.3m (32%)
Ethiopia 	8.0m (27%)
South Sudan 	7.0m (61%)
Syria 		6.6m (36%)
Sudan 		5.9m (14%)
Northen Nigeria 5.0m (5%)
Haiti 		3.7m (35%)
Zimbabwe 	3.6m (38%)
Malawi 		3.3m (22%)
Pakistan 	3.1m (51%)
Kenya 		3.1m (22%)
Guatemala	3.1m (18%)
Zambia   	2.3m (24%) 
Somalia   	2.1m (17%)
CAR†   		1.8m (41%) 
Iraq   		1.8m (5%)
Mozambique   	1.7m (34%) 
Palestine   	1.7m (33%)
Uganda   	1.5m (4%) 
Cameroon   	1.4m (8%) 
Niger   	1.4m (7%)
Bangladesh   	1.3m (37%) 
Madagascar   	1.3m (28%)
Burkina Faso   	1.2m (6%) 
Tanzania	1.0m(20%)


Top 10 countries account for 65% of total population (88m) in Crisis or worse

      
CRISES COMPARISON
People in food crisis, or worse

2019 135m people (55 countries)
2018 113m (53 countries)
2017 124m (51 countries)
2016 108m (48 countries)


*FOOD INSECURITY SCALE 
Phase 1: Minimal
Phase 2: Stressed
Phase 3: Crisis
Phase 4: Emergency 
Phase 5: Famine
 

†Central African Republic


Source: World Food Programme 
Picture: Getty Images
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