Food insecurity: countries where the food insecurity prevalence is above 30%. Pixels with a value higher than the specified threshold (30%) were given a value of 1 (YES response)
The percentage of people in the population who live in households classified as moderately or severely food insecure. A household is classified as moderately or severely food insecure when at least one adult in the household has reported to have been exposed, at times during the year, to low quality diets and might have been forced to also reduce the quantity of food they would normally eat because of a lack of money or other resources.
Data revision: 2021-01-01
Contact points:
Contact: World Bank
Metadata contact: OCB Environment FAO-UN
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World Bank data on Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population (%)
