Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, 2024

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Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet, 2024: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Positionderived	Country	Share of the population unable to afford a healthy diet (%)	People unable to afford a healthy diet (millions)
1	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	95.0	11.4
2	MalawiMWIEastern Africa	92.1	19.9
3	BurundiBDIEastern Africa	91.1	12.8
4	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	90.8	99.2
5	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	90.7	31.4
6	HaitiHTICaribbean	87.9	10.3
7	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	87.5	4.7
8	NigerNERWestern Africa	86.7	23.4
9	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	86.3	18.4
10	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	85.3	27.3
11	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	81.6	189.8
12	Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa	78.1	4.9
13	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	77.1	1.8
14	KenyaKENEastern Africa	76.4	43.1
15	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	74.4	37.2
16	SyriaSYRWestern Asia	73.5	18.1
17	TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	73.0	50.1
=18	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	72.2	27.4
=18	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	72.2	10.3
20	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	70.9	93.6
21	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	70.6	200.2
22	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	69.1	0.9
23	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	66.7	13.5
24	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	65.8	22.6
25	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	65.5	1.4

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 27.1. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• People unable to afford a healthy diet (millions)

  HighestIndia589.2

  Lowest9 share it

  Middle country: 2.4

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• 11unchanged

− Nicaragua

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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