In 2024, 295 Million People were Affected by the Worsening of World Hunger
The number is 13.7 million more than in 2023, and it is the sixth consecutive year that acute food insecurity has increased in the most vulnerable areas of the world.
The Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC), an international coalition that includes the FAO, the UN World Food Programme (WFP), and other governmental and non-governmental organisations, presented the findings in its 2025 Global Report on Food Crises.
Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general, called the statistics “another unflinching indictment of a world dangerously off course. “In the preface to the study, he cautioned that “a third of all food produced globally is lost or wasted, yet hunger and malnutrition are spreading faster than our ability to respond.
He went on to say that a more recent crisis—a sharp cutback in financing for life-saving humanitarian efforts—is now exacerbating older ones. The study stressed that although many reasons, including poverty, economic shocks, and harsh weather, often contribute to acute food insecurity, conflicts continued to be the primary cause in many of the most affected areas. Acute hunger is not the only issue that specific communities experience.
In 2024, famine was verified in certain areas of Sudan, and South Sudan, Haiti, Mali, and the Gaza Strip experienced catastrophic food shortages.
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