Editing Hunger (section)

==World statistics==
{{See also|Food security#Malnutrition}}
[[File:In 2022, Asia was home to 55 percent (402 million) of the people in the world affected by hunger, while more than 38 percent (282 million) lived in Africa.svg|thumb|In 2022, Asia was home to 55% (402 million) of the people in the world affected by hunger, while more than 38% (282 million) lived in Africa.]]
[[File:Global hunger remained virtually unchanged from 2021 to 2022 but is still far above pre-Covid-19-pandemic levels.svg|thumb|Global hunger remained virtually unchanged from 2021 to 2022 but is still far above pre-COVID-19-pandemic.]]
The [[United Nations]] publishes an annual report on the state of food security and nutrition across the world. Led by the [[FAO]], the report was joint authored by four other UN agencies: the [[WFP]], [[IFAD]], [[WHO]] and [[UNICEF]]. The theme of the 2024 report is on how efforts to meet [[Sustainable Development Goal 2|SDG 2.1 & 2.2]] can be financed.  The FAO's yearly report provides a statistical overview on the prevalence of hunger around the world, and is widely considered the main global reference for tracking hunger.  No simple set of statistics can ever fully capture the multi dimensional nature of hunger however. Reasons include that the FAO's key metric for hunger, "undernourishment", is defined solely in terms of dietary energy availability – disregarding micro-nutrients such as vitamins or minerals. Second, the FAO uses the energy requirements for minimum activity levels as a benchmark; many people would not count as hungry by the FAO's measure yet still be eating too little to undertake hard manual labour, which might be the only sort of work available to them. Thirdly, the FAO statistics do not always reflect short-term undernourishment.<ref name="FAO2018" /><ref name="FAO2019">{{Cite web
|url=http://www.fao.org/3/ca5162en/ca5162en.pdf
|title=The state of food security and nutrition in the world (2019)
|publisher=[[FAO]]
|date=15 July 2019
|access-date=15 July 2019
|archive-date=2 September 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902213652/http://www.fao.org/3/ca5162en/ca5162en.pdf
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref name="FAO2020">{{Cite book
|url=http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/2020/en/
|title=The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
|publisher=[[FAO]]
|date=7 July 2020
|doi=10.4060/CA9692EN
|isbn=978-92-5-132901-6
|s2cid=239729231
|access-date=27 January 2021
|archive-date=10 October 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010205743/http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/2020/en/
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref name="FAO2021">{{Cite web
|url=http://www.fao.org/3/cb4474en/cb4474en.pdf
|title=The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021
|publisher=[[FAO]]
|date=2021
|access-date=10 September 2021
|archive-date=4 September 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210904033340/http://www.fao.org/3/cb4474en/cb4474en.pdf
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref name="FAO2023">{{Cite web
|url=https://www.fao.org/3/cc3017en/cc3017en.pdf
|title=The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023
|publisher=[[FAO]]
|date=2023
|access-date=2 November 2023
}}</ref><ref name="FAO2024">{{Cite web
|url=https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/the-state-of-food-security-and-nutrition-in-the-world-2024
|title=The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023
|publisher=[[FAO]]
|date=2024
|access-date=25 August 2024
}}</ref>

According to the report of United Nations from 2025, acute food insecurity increases globally for 6 years in a row. As funding become scarce, a possible solution is "investment in [[sustainable agriculture]], which is four times more cost-effective than direct food assistance but only accounts for three percent of  humanitarian funds."<ref name=UN2025>{{cite web |title=Another year, another rise in food insecurity – including famine |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163321 |website=United Nations |access-date=20 May 2025}}</ref>


{| class="wikitable"
!Year!!2005!!2010!!2015!!2017!!2018!!2019!!2020!!2021!!2022!!2023
|-

!Number (million) of undernourished people (global)<ref name="FAO2024"/>
|798.3 ||604.8||570.2||541.3||557.0||581.3||669.3||708.7||723.8||733.4
|-

!Percentage of undernourished people (global)<ref name="FAO2024"/>
|12.2%||8.7%||7.7%||7.1%||7.2%||7.5%||8.5%||9.0%||9.1%||9.1%
|}
An alternative measure of hunger across the world is the [[Global Hunger Index]] (GHI). Unlike the FAO's measure, the GHI defines hunger in a way that goes beyond raw calorie intake, to include for example ingestion of micronutrients. GDI is a multidimensional statistical tool used to describe the state of countries' hunger situation. The GHI measures progress and failures in the global fight against hunger.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8306556.stm |title= Global hunger worsening, warns UN |publisher= BBC (Europe) |date= 14 October 2009 |access-date= 22 August 2010 |archive-date= 23 October 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181023054023/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8306556.stm |url-status= live }}</ref> The GHI is updated once a year. The data from the 2015 report showed that Hunger levels have dropped 27% since 2000. Fifty two countries remained at serious or alarming levels.<ref>K. von Grebmer, J. Bernstein, A. de Waal, N. Prasai, S. Yin, Y. Yohannes: [http://www.ifpri.org/cdmref/p15738coll2/id/129681/filename/129892.pdf 2015 Global Hunger Index - Armed Conflict and the Challenge of Hunger]. Bonn, Washington D. C., Dublin: Welthungerhilfe, IFPRI, and Concern Worldwide. October 2015.</ref> The 2019 GHI report expresses concern about the increase in hunger since 2015. In addition to the latest statistics on Hunger and Food Security, the GHI also features different special topics each year. The 2019 report includes an essay on hunger and climate change, with evidence suggesting that areas most [[Climate change vulnerability|vulnerable to climate change]] have suffered much of the recent increases in hunger.<ref>{{cite news
 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/oct/15/higher-temperatures-driving-alarming-levels-hunger-report-climate-crisis
 |title= Higher temperatures driving 'alarming' levels of hunger – report
 |work= [[The Guardian]]
 |author= Lucy Lamble
 |date= 15 October 2019
|access-date= 16 October 2019
|archive-date= 21 December 2022
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221221064110/https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/oct/15/higher-temperatures-driving-alarming-levels-hunger-report-climate-crisis
 |url-status= live
 }}</ref><ref>K. von Grebmer, J. Bernstein, R. Mukerji, F. Patterson, M. Wiemers, R. Ní Chéilleachair, C. Foley, S. Gitter, K. Ekstrom, and H. Fritschel. 2019. [https://admin.concern.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/2019-10/2019%20Global%20Hunger%20Index.pdf 2019 Global Hunger Index: The Challenge of Hunger and Climate Change.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223044650/https://admin.concern.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/2019-10/2019%20Global%20Hunger%20Index.pdf |date=23 February 2022 }} Bonn: Welthungerhilfe; and Dublin: Concern Worldwide.</ref>