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Prevalence of undernourishment

Observed

Share of the population whose habitual food consumption is insufficient to provide the dietary energy needed for a normal, active life.

Ingestedfrom Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsfreshJSON export
Current value, World
7.8percent of population
period 2025
Geography
World (WLD)
Observation date
2025
Unit
percent of population
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1-year change-0.3improving-3.70%2024 to 2025from 8.1 to 7.8 percent of population
10-year trend-0.25% per yearimproving-2.50%2015 to 2025compound annual growth rate; total -0.2 percent of population, from 8 to 7.8 percent of population
Historical series

Prevalence of undernourishment, World

Observed
68101214200020052010201520202025PERCENT OF POPULATION7.8
26 observations, 2000 to 2025latest point emphasised
Data table (26 rows)
Prevalence of undernourishment, World: 26 observations from 2000 to 2025, values from 7.2 to 13.2 percent of population. Latest 7.8 percent of population in 2025. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (percent of population)Source revisionIngested at
20257.82026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20248.12026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20238.52026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20228.62026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20218.62026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20208.42026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20197.52026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20187.42026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20177.22026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20167.62026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
201582026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20147.42026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20137.72026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20128.22026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20118.22026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20108.72026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200992026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20089.32026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2007102026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2006112026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200512.12026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200412.72026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200312.92026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200213.22026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2001132026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200012.82026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1 geographies have observations for this metric
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service), series FS:210040:6121
Definition

What this measures

The prevalence of undernourishment (SDG indicator 2.1.1) is FAO's estimate of the proportion of the population whose habitual food consumption is insufficient to provide the dietary energy levels required to maintain a normal, active and healthy life, computed from food supply, consumption inequality and energy requirements. FAOSTAT domain FS, item Prevalence of undernourishment (percent) (annual value) (210040), element Value (6121), unit percent. Annual from 2000. Values FAO publishes as the text '<2.5' (below 2.5 percent) are not numbers and are not stored, so countries with very low prevalence have gaps.

Direction
lower is better
Geography level
country
Slug
undernourishment-prevalence
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service)
Series ID
FS:210040:6121last fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: [Domain name]. Accessed on [DD Month YYYY]. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Data used with attribution and not for or in conjunction with the promotion of a commercial enterprise, product or service.
Terms of use
Last source update
2026-07-21(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-09-07 20:16 UTC
Parser version
faostat-bulk/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
FAOSTAT revises history in place; each revision is stored as a new row labelled with the domain's DateUpdate. Aggregates other than World and former countries (USSR, Sudan (former), ...) are not stored. FAO publishes the annual value for the World and its regions only; country values are the three-year averages in the companion metric undernourishment-prevalence-3yr. The text value '<2.5' is not stored.
Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 100 percent of population.
26 periods with values for this geography, 2000 to 2025.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2025) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (percent of population)Ingested atStatus
2026-07-217.82026-09-07 20:00 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.