Report: 2/3 of Acute Food Insecurity in 10 Countries

A new international report released on Friday revealed that two-thirds of the world's people facing high levels of acute food insecurity in 2025 were concentrated in just 10 countries, with conflict identified as the dominant driver of the crisis.

The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises, the 10th edition produced by the Global Network Against Food Crises, an alliance of United Nations agencies, the European Union and humanitarian partners, analyzed data from 47 countries and territories. It found that 266 million people, or nearly a quarter of the populations studied, experienced high levels of acute food insecurity last year, a figure almost double the share recorded in 2016. The severity marked the second-highest level in two decades, with the number of people in catastrophic hunger conditions rising ninefold over the past decade.

The 10 countries bearing the brunt were Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Sudan, Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen. Sudan, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone accounted for about one-third of those affected. For the first time in the report's history, famine was...