STATEMENT: GFN Response to the UN Food Security and Nutrition Report 2025 (SOFI)
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The new data released yesterday from the Addis Ababa summit show another slight improvement on a global level, bringing to 8.2% (about 672 million people) the population of the Planet suffering from malnutrition. But they are mainly the 19.4 million Indians released in the last year from statistics on this band more at risk to compensate for the serious increases in Africa and the Middle East.
Last year, around 673 million people worldwide suffered from hunger - about 22 million fewer than in the previous year. This is evident from the current World Food Report presented by five UN agencies in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. However, the situation in individual regions has worsened.

STATEMENT: GFN Response to the UN Food Security and Nutrition Report 2025 (SOFI)
Hunger rates drop slightly, but high food prices put progress at risk; Food banks are providing nutritious food to people in places where food security is hard to achieve.
In numbers, we are better off than before: In 2024, 8.2 per cent of the world's population - about 673 million people - suffered from hunger. They are about 15 million less than the previous year, and 22 million less than 2022. But, if we look at the data in detail, what is actually seen is a greater increase in inequality, because while it fell globally, famine grew in most of the subregions of Africa and West Asia, where long-standing food cri…
UN’s SOFI 2025 Report: Around 82% World’s Population Affected by Hunger in 2024
In July 2025, United Nations (UN) released its latest report titled ‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI 2025): Addressing high food price inflation for food security and nutrition’ during the 2nd UN Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As per the report, around 8.2% of world’s population (673 million individuals) […] The post UN’s SOFI 2025 Report: Around 82% World’s Population Affected by Hu…
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has estimated that 673 million people went hungry in 2024, representing 15 million fewer than the previous year and 22 million fewer than in 2022. That is, the percentage of the world’s hungry population has fallen from 8.7% to 8.2% in a matter of two years.
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