2025 Global Report on Food Crises

Acute food insecurity and child malnutrition rose for the sixth consecutive year in 2024, pushing millions of people to the brink, in some of the world’s most vulnerable regions, according to the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC). The report shows conflict, economic shocks, climate extremes, and displacement continued to drive food insecurity and malnutrition around the world, with catastrophic impacts on many already fragile regions. In 2024, more than 295 million people across 53 countries and territories experienced acute levels of hunger– an increase of 13.7 million from 2023. Of great concern is the worsening prevalence of acute food insecurity, which now stands at 22.6 percent of the population assessed; the fifth consecutive year at over 20 percent. The number of people facing catastrophic hunger (IPC/CH Phase 5) more than doubled over the same period to reach 1.9 million – the highest on record since the GRFC began tracking in 2016. Child malnutrition reached extremely high levels, including in the Gaza Strip, Mali, Sudan, and Yemen. Nearly 38 million children under five were acutely malnourished across 26 crisis-hit countries. The report also highlights a staggering increase in hunger driven by forced displacement, with nearly 95 million forcibly displaced people, including IDPs , asylum seekers and refugees, trapped in countries facing food crises such as, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, Sudan, and Syria, out of 128 million forcibly displaced people globally. About Us: The Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) is an alliance of humanitarian and development actors united by the commitment to tackle the root causes of food crises and promote sustainable solutions through shared analysis and knowledge, strengthened coordination in evidence-based responses and collective efforts across the Humanitarian, Development and Peace (HDP) nexus. Learn more about us: Website: https://www.fightfoodcrises.net/about/ LinkedIn:   / global-network-against-food-crises   BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/fightfoodcri... X:   / fightfoodcrises