Dataset · FAO
Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet
9 years, 2017–2025 · 145 countries · 2 measures
This is the share of people in a country who cannot afford the cheapest healthy diet available where they live, once the other basic needs every household has are paid for. It is published every year by FAO and the World Bank in The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, and it works as a poverty line measured in food rather than in dollars.
This site holds every year from 2017 to 2025, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet · the file
- Newest
- Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, 2025
- Held
- 9 years · 1,312 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
019 years
Every year
Every year comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, 2025Newest | 145 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, 2024 | 145 | −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, 2023 | 146 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, 2022 | 146 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, 2021 | 146 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, 2020 | 146 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, 2019 | 146 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, 2018 | 146 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, 2017 | 146 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: healthy-diet-unaffordable-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 145 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 145 | 0 | |
Share of the population unable to afford a healthy diet (%)healthy_diet_unaffordableHeadline | The headline figure: Share of the population unable to afford a healthy diet (%). | Number · up to 1 decimal | 0.6 Belarus93.9 South Sudanmiddle 26.4 | 133 | 0 | |
People unable to afford a healthy diet (millions)people_unableMeasure | The number of people in the country who cannot afford a healthy diet, in millions, as FAO publishes it. | Number · up to 1 decimal | 0.011 share it520.1 Indiamiddle 2.2 | 86 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.
03146 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 |
| Americas | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 24 |
| Asia | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| Europe | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 |
| Oceania | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| All | 146 | 146 | 146 | 146 | 146 | 146 | 146 | 145 | 145 |
Who joined and who left
- 2024
− Nicaragua
Not in this dataset · 79 places this site covers
FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
Afghanistan
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Aruba
Bahamas
Bahrain
Barbados
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Cambodia
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Cuba
Curaçao
Dominica
El Salvador
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Georgia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Hong Kong
Isle of Man
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Libya
Liechtenstein
Macau
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
Myanmar
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niue
North KoreaNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Oman
Palau
Palestine
Papua New Guinea
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Solomon Islands
SomaliaSomaliland
Sudan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Ukraine
United States Virgin Islands
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Yemen
Zimbabwe04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2 · Their file
Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
9 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as healthy-diet-unaffordable-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/healthy-diet-unaffordableA key for Poverty & Inequality in the Country Index.
Precision
The headline is stored to 1 decimal, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
FAOSTAT's Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet domain, read from FAO's own bulk download. The World Bank publishes the identical figures. Countries whose estimate FAO withheld or did not make are left out rather than filled in.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, 2017–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/healthy-diet-unaffordable
The publisher’s own citation: FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet (CoAHD). Accessed on 29 September 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/CAHD Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
In the Country Index
A key for Poverty & Inequality
“The share of people whose income cannot buy the cheapest healthy diet available where they live — a poverty line priced in food rather than in dollars.”
Poverty & Inequality standingsSubjects
Near neighbours
- Gini IndexWorld Bank Group · 22 held · 2002–2023
- Poverty Gap at $3.00 a DayWorld Bank Group · 22 held · 2002–2023
- Gini Index of Disposable Income (SWIID)Frederick Solt · 44 held · 1980–2023
07Questions
Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet: questions and answers
What is the Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet?
This is the share of people in a country who cannot afford the cheapest healthy diet available where they live, once the other basic needs every household has are paid for. It is published every year by FAO and the World Bank in The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, and it works as a poverty line measured in food rather than in dollars.
Which years of the Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet can I download?
All 9, from 2017 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does FAO rank countries on it?
No. FAO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to FAO. The licence text is linked on this page.