International Food Security Assessment, 2024–34

by Lila Cardell, Yacob Abrehe Zereyesus, Kayode Ajewole, Jarrad Farris, Michael E. Johnson, Jessie Lin, Constanza Valdes, and Wendy Zeng

Food security is estimated to improve in 2024 relative to 2023 for most of the 83 countries covered by the International Food Security Assessment (IFSA) due to an average 3.4 percent growth in per capita GDP and easing of international and domestic food price levels for most commodities, including vegetable oils, wheat, sorghum, and corn. In 2024, an estimated 19.0 percent of the population included in IFSA, or 824.6 million people, are unable to consume the 2,100 kilocalories (kcal) per day considered necessary for a healthy and active lifestyle. This represents a 27.5 percent decrease (313.0 million fewer people) from the estimated number of food-insecure people in 2023.

Keywords: Calories, food demand, food insecurity, food prices, income, inflation, caloric threshold, Asia, Former Soviet Union, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

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