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  • Publication | 2025
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2025
Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights:

Produced by UN Women and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the “Gender snapshot” is the world’s leading source of data on gender equality and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Drawing from more than 100 data sources, it tracks progress on gender equality across all 17 SDGs. With five years to go, and thirty since the Beijing Platform for Action, the report offers both a warning and a way forward. It also anchors the Beijing+30 Action Agenda, identifying six priority areas for accelerated delivery, including two with costed investment pathways on digital inclusion and freedom from poverty.

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On SGD 2, the report shows that food insecurity affects women more than men. In 2024, the gender gap in the global prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity increased to 1.9 percentage points compared to 1.3 in 2023, with women experiencing higher rates (26.1 per cent) than men (24.2 per cent).

Food insecurity and inadequate dietary intake go hand in hand. Figure 2 below shows the proportion of women of reproductive age achieving minimum dietary diversity in selected countries over the period 2012–2023.

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Dietary deficiencies worsen health among women and girls.  Already, current projections indicate that anaemia rates for women aged 15–49 globally will rise from 31.1 per cent in 2025 to 33.0 per cent by 2030. Without renewed investments, the increase could be even sharper, moving the world further away from the global target of a 50 per cent reduction by 2030.