1 2 3 4 5 6

About 793 million people in the world still
Yet progress has been made, even in the The year 2015 marks the end of the
lack sufficient food for conducting an active
and healthy life.
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In developing regions the target was almost
presence of significant population growth.
Approximately 218 million fewer people
suffer from undernourishment than 25 years
ago and 169 million fewer than a decade ago.
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Some regions, such as Latin America, the In many countries that have failed to reach
monitoring period for the Millennium achieved, with the share of undernourished east and southeastern regions of Asia, the the international hunger targets, natural
Development Goal targets. Seventy-three out having decreased during the monitoring Caucasus and Central Asia, and the northern and human-induced disasters or political
of 129 developing countries – more than half period from 23.3 to 12.9 percent. and western regions of Africa, have made instability have resulted in protracted crises,
the countries monitored – have reached the fast progress. Progress was also recorded in with increased vulnerability and food
MDG 1C hunger target of halving the southern Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean and insecurity among large segments of the
proportion of the chronically undernourished. southern and eastern Africa, but at too slow population.
a pace to reach the MDG 1C target.
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Millennium Development Goal 1 Undernourishment data: FAO Statistics Division (ESS)

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and World Food Summit Political boundaries: FAO Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL)
Global relief: ETOPO1 (National Geophysical Data Center - NOAA)
Inland water bodies: FAO Land and Water Division (NRL)
Hunger Targets Iceland
Sweden
Russian Federation
Finland
Norway

Produced by the FAO Statistics Division Estonia

Canada Latvia
Denmark
For additional information: Lithuania
Belarus
http://www.fao.org/economic/ess Ireland United Kingdom
Netherlands Poland
Belgium Germany
Luxembourg Czech Republic Ukraine
Slovakia
Liechtenstein Austria
Hungary
Kazakhstan
France Switzerland Republic of Moldova
Slovenia Romania Mongolia
Croatia
Monaco Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbia
Italy Montenegro Bulgaria
Georgia
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Uzbekistan Kyrgyzstan
Albania Armenia
Spain Azerbaijan Turkmenistan Democratic People's Republic of Korea
United States of America Portugal Greece Turkey Tajikistan

Malta
Syrian Arab Republic
China Republic of Korea
Japan
Cyprus
Afghanistan
Tunisia Lebanon Iraq
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
West Bank and Gaza Strip
Morocco
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait

Algeria Nepal
Pakistan Bhutan
Libya Egypt Bahrain
Qatar
Mexico Bangladesh
Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates
Cuba
India
Mauritania Myanmar Lao People's
HaitiDominican Republic
Oman
Anguilla Mali Democratic Republic
Jamaica
Belize Saint Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda Niger
Montserrat
Guatemala Sudan Yemen
Cabo Verde Senegal Chad Eritrea Thailand
Honduras Martinique
Saint Lucia
El Salvador Gambia Philippines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Barbados
Nicaragua Burkina Faso Cambodia
Grenada Guinea-Bissau Viet Nam
GOALS Guinea Djibouti
Trinidad and Tobago
Costa Rica
Ghana Benin Nigeria Ethiopia
Millennium Development Goal 1, target 1C: halve, between 1990-92 and 2015, the proportion Panama
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Sierra Leone
Côte d'Ivoire Sri Lanka Palau
of people suffering from undernourishment, or reduce this proportion below 5 percent. Togo Central African Republic South Sudan Micronesia (Federated States of) Marshall Islands
Liberia
The indicator measures the proportion of the population below the minimum level of dietary energy Suriname
Guyana Cameroon Somalia Brunei Darussalam
French Guiana
consumption (undernourishment). The assessment is not conducted for developed regions. Colombia
Malaysia
Kiribati Equatorial Guinea Uganda Singapore
Sao Tome and Principe
0°0'0" Congo Kenya 0°0'0"
Maldives Nauru
Gabon
Prevalence of undernourishment: measures the probability that a randomly selected individual Ecuador
Democratic Republic Rwanda Indonesia
in the population is consuming an amount of dietary energy, which is insufficient to cover her/his of the Congo Burundi
requirements to lead an active and healthy life. Seychelles

United Republic of Tanzania Papua New Guinea

Peru Tuvalu
Timor-Leste
World Food Summit (WFS) goal: halve, between 1990-92 and 2015, the number of people Solomon Islands
undernourished. Brazil Comoros

Samoa Angola
500 250 0 500 1 000 1 500 2 000 2 500 3 000
American Samoa Kilometers Zambia Malawi Vanuatu

Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Fiji

Niue The designations employed and the presentation of the material in the maps do not imply the Zimbabwe
expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of FAO concerning the legal or constitutional status Madagascar Mauritius
Tonga Namibia
of any country, territory or sea area, or concerning the delimitation of frontiers. Paraguay Botswana Mozambique
Australia
Swaziland

Lesotho
Chile
South Africa
Uruguay

Argentina

New Zealand

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Target 1C not achieved, Target 1C not achieved, with lack
Target 1C achieved Missing or insufficient data Not assessed
with slow progress of progress or deterioration

LEGEND LEGEND

<5% Very low Target achieved

5% 14.9% - Moderately low Target not achieved,

with slow progress
15% 24.9% - Moderately high
Target not achieved, with
lack of progress or deterioration
25% 34.9% - High
Missing or
35% and over - Very high insufficient data

NOTES
Missing or insufficient data Not assessed

The latest global undernourishment estimates published in SOFI 2015 have been slightly revised
due to a change in the underlying data of two countries. In particular:
1. New information on agricultural production in Senegal, provided by the Agence Nationale de
Statistique et de la Démographie, has led to a revision of the national per capita availability of
of the national per capita availability of calories. Based on the updated data, new estimates of the
Prevalence of Undernourishment and the Number of Undernourished people were obtained for
Oman.
As a result of these revisions, estimates for the relevant regional and global aggregates, as well as

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calories. Based on the updated data, new estimates of the Prevalence of Undernourishment and special country groups, have also been updated.
Number of Undernourished people for the periods from 2010-12 to 2014-16 were calculated.
These revisions do not change the overall assessment of the state of global food insecurity
2. Estimates on food losses at the retail level for Oman were modified, leading to a minor revision described in SOFI 2015.