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  • Publication | 2023

Afghanistan Socio-economic Outlook 2023

Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights:

According to the data reported in the WoAA2022 shown in [3], 89 percent of households and 91 percent of Afghans had food expenditure lower than the nominal food poverty line of 2020 (AFN 1,330). The share of Afghans below AFN 1,717 (the food poverty line in 2020 adjusted for food inflation) was 96 percent.

Drought, economic shocks, and flood were the events with greatest impacts on Afghan households in 2022. Respectively, they impacted 3.9 million, 3.3 million and 1.2 million households.

Of more than 17,000 households surveyed, 91 percent identified food as the top priority, 55 percent identified livelihoods and employment support as the top priority and 47 percent identified healthcare as the top priority – making food the biggest priority for Afghan households followed by livelihoods and employment support and healthcare as the second and third biggest priorities during first 7 months of 2022.

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As shown of figure 7 below, 36 percent of households surveyed tended to use their savings to secure food. However, of this 36 percent, 12 percent could still hardly use this strategy while 24 percent did not have this strategy available because their savings had finished.

Of the 35 percent of households that secured food by selling productive assets only 5 percent could still hardly do so while 30 percent had finished off this this option.

Of the 19 percent of households that secured food by doing dangerous activities, only 2 percent could still use this option while 17 percent had run out of even this option of securing food.

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