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A malnourished child sitting on dry, cracked earth, holding an empty bowl, with a faded world map in the background symbolizing global undernourishment.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2023)

Last updated: March 14, 2024
Next expected update: March 2025
Date range: 2000 – 2022
Unit: percent

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2023) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Share of people that are undernourished – FAO” [dataset]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “SDG Indicators: SDG Indicators” [original data]. Retrieved December 20, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prevalence-of-undernourishment

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2023) – with major processing 
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