1287. Acute Food Insecurity Crisis

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), in its 2025 Global Outlook mid-year update on acute food insecurity and needs, warns that in 2025, the confluence of conflict, natural disasters, extreme weather, and economic instability continues to create an unrelenting crisis of acute food insecurity.

Severe hunger remains at critical levels. As of November 2024, an estimated 343 million people were acutely food insecure in the 74 countries where WFP operates and where data is available. The updated figure showing 319 million people facing hunger in 67 countries as of mid-2025 unfortunately does not reflect a decline in actual hunger levels, mainly due to a lack of up-to-date data in seven countries.

Severe hunger levels are expected to continue for the rest of 2025. Famine is already a reality in Sudan and imminent in Gaza, and the situation is expected to worsen due to ongoing violence and severe constraints on humanitarian access.

WFP said that in a world of overlapping crises, tackling global hunger is more urgent than ever, and it called for commitment from partners.

(Reference)
WFP 2025. WFP 2025 Global Outlook. Rome. DOI: https://doi.org/10.71958/wfp129881

Contributor: Miyuki IIYAMA, Information Program