State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2024
- 25 Jul 2024
The 2024 edition of the United Nations Report on the State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI 2024), launched on July 24th , 2024, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Key Points
- The SOFI 2024 report theme is “Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition’’.
- The report was released at the same location as the G20 Task Force Ministerial Meeting on Establishing a Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty was held on July 24th.
- The report is produced jointly by the United Nations agencies FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, and WHO, which provides an annual update to the "Hunger Map.
- According to report the world is falling significantly short of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030.
- The report shows that the world has been set back 15 years, with levels of undernourishment comparable to those in 2008-2009.
- Regional trends vary significantly: the percentage of the population facing hunger continues to rise in Africa (20.4 per cent), remains stable in Asia (8.1 per cent)—though still representing a significant challenge as the region is home to more than half of those facing hunger worldwide —and shows progress in Latin America (6.2 per cent). From 2022 to 2023, hunger increased in Western Asia, the Caribbean and most African subregions.
- The lack of economic access to healthy diets also remains a critical issue, affecting over one-third of the global population.
- With new food price data and methodological improvements, over 2.8 billion people were unable to afford a healthy diet in 2022. This disparity is most pronounced in low-income countries, where 71.5 percent of the population cannot afford a healthy diet, compared to 6.3 percent in high-income countries.
