Global Hunger Falls For Third Year, Africa Remains Hardest Hit: UN Report
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According to reports, while the number of people experiencing chronic hunger worldwide decreased for the third consecutive year in 2025, the figure in Africa rose to 309.2 million.
According to reports from FAO and UN organizations, while chronic hunger worldwide will fall to 644.6 million in 2025, it will rise to 309.2 million in Africa, surpassing Asia. Africa's share of global hunger has increased to 48 percent.
Global hunger is falling sharply, according to a new report
Although there have been plenty of negative headlines about the state of the world in recent years, there are plenty of trends moving in the right direction. One example comes from The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026, which has released a new report showing that global hunger has declined dramatically. Although 7.8% of the world's population still does not have enough to eat, that figure has fallen from 35% in 1970. Of co…
Despite a slight improvement in global indicators, hunger continues to affect hundreds of millions of people around the world. According to new estimates published on Tuesday 21 July by several United Nations agencies, 645 million people, or 7.8% of the world's population, were undernourished in 2025. A modest decrease by [...] Read more Hunger is falling slightly in the world, but Africa is becoming the epicenter of food insecurity has appeared…
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 (SOFI) confirms an encouraging trend: global hunger continues to decline for the third consecutive year. The prevalence of undernourishment fell from 8.6% in 2022 to 7.8% in 2025, representing approximately 645 million people affected, 43 million less than in 2022.
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