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The Mid-Year Update of the Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2024 draws on data available as of the end of August 2024: it finds the number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has been increasing since 2023 in 18 countries while decreasing in another 16.
In 2023, about 258 million people in 58 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above or equivalent) and required urgent food assistance. $1This represents 21.5% of the population analysed, and is the highest number in the eight-year history of the GRFC and 9% higher than the number estimated for the year 2022.
The Mid-Year Update of the Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2023 estimated that 238 million people are facing high levels of acute food insecurity in 48 countries as from early August. This number represents 1 in 5 people of the total population analysed, a similar proportion than the one found in 2022.
In 2022, about 258 million people in 58 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above or equivalent) and required urgent food assistance. This represents 22.7% of the population analysed and is the highest number in the seven-year history of the GRFC and 34% higher than the number presented in the GRFC 2022.
By mid-2022, the population facing the three highest phases of acute food insecurity was greater than at any point in the six-year history of the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC). The number of people in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) or equivalent – that is the number of people requiring urgent humanitarian assistance – is forecast to reach up to 205.1 million in 45 of the 53 countries/ territories included in the GRFC 2022.
Levels of hunger in 2021 remain alarmingly high, with close to 193 million people acutely food insecure and in need of urgent assistance across 53 countries/territories, according to the findings of the GRFC 2022.
This September 2021 update of the Global Report on Food Crises provides new estimates related to the number of people in Crisis or worse(IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) in 2021. These estimates are available for 42 of the 55 countries/territories in food crises, according the 2021 Global Report published in May.
The main annual report provides acute food insecurity data for 55 countries out of the 79 identified food crises for year 2020. At least 155 million people were in crisis or worse (IPC Phase 3 or above) in 55 countries in 2020, that is nearly 21 million people more than in 2019.
The report analyses of the external financing to the food sectors in the 55 countries and territorieswith food crises as identified by the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises.
This GRFC 2020 September update in times of COVID-19 provides acute food insecurity data for 26 countries identified in the GRFC 2020 and includes Togo in the report for the first time.
The number of acutely food-insecure people in need of urgent assistance in the world is rising. The report identifies 71 countries or territories facing food crisis in 2019, of which data was available for 55 countries for population facing acute food insecurity. 135 million people in 55 countries were in Crisis or worse.
The September 2019 update of the Global Report on Food Crises provides estimates of the peak number of people in urgent need of assistance for food, nutrition and livelihood support in 2019 from the first eight months of the year. Updated data were available for 36 countries and territories over the 53 countries and territories reported in the 2019 Global Report on Food crises released in March 2019.
For the last three years, the report has indicated that the number of people in urgent need of assistance for food, nutrition and livelihood support, has not fallen below 100 million people globally, with conflict and insecurity, climate-related issues and economic shocks being the primary drivers of food insecurity.
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