More than 295 million people suffered from acute hunger last year

In 2024, more than 295 million people in 53 countries and regions suffered from severe hunger levels – an increase of 13.7 million people over 2023. It raises great concern to exacerbate the spread of acute food insecurity, which is now 22.6 percent of the evaluated population. This is the fifth consecutive year in which this number remains above 20 percent.

Gaza, Sudan and Yemen

The number of people who face a catastrophic starvation (famine) has doubled – the fifth stage of The integrated classification of food security stages – More than twice during the same period to 1.9 million people – the highest registered level since the global report on food crises began, the monitoring process in 2016.

Malnutrition, especially among children, has reached very high levels, including in the Gaza Strip, Mali, Sudan and Yemen. Nearly 38 million children under the age of five suffered from acute malnutrition in 26 food crisis.

The report also sheds light on a sharp increase in hunger caused by forced displacement, where nearly 95 million forced displaced people – including internally displaced people, asylum seekers and refugees – live in countries facing food crises such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Sudan and Syria, of a global total of 128 million forced displaced people.

Reduce human financing

UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres said this global report on food crises is like “Another condemnation of a dangerous world is outside the right track. Long -term crises are now aggravated by another newer crisis: the great decrease in life -saving human financing to respond to these needs. This is more than just a failure of systems – it is a failure of humanity. Hunger in the twenty -first century cannot be defended. We cannot respond to empty stomachs with empty and indifferent hands.”

The main reasons

According to the report, the conflict remained the main driver of acute food insecurity, affecting about 140 million people in 20 countries and regions. Famine has been confirmed in Sudan, while other hot points in which people suffer from catastrophic levels of hard food security, include the Gaza Strip, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali.

Other factors include economic shocks, which include inflation and a decrease in the value of the currency, and some of the largest and longest food crises are mainly driven by economic shocks, including in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Added to this is extreme air phenomena, especially droughts and floods caused by the phenomenon of Nyneo.

According to the expectations of the global report on food crises, hunger trauma is likely to continue until 2025, as the global network expects the largest decrease in human financing for food and nutrition crises in the history of the report.

A bold invitation to break the food crisis ring

Acute food insecurity and malnutrition increased to record levels, but global financing is witnessing the fastest decline in years, and political momentum is diminished.

The report emphasized that breaking the hunger and increasing malnutrition cycle requires bold steps that give priority to evidence -based procedures that focus on influence. This means collecting resources, expanding the scope of what succeeds, setting the needs and sounds of affected societies at the heart of each response.

In addition to emergency aid, the global network to combat food crises recommend investing in local diets and integrated nutrition services to treat long -term weaknesses and build resilience in the face of shocks – especially in crises where 70 percent of rural families depend on agriculture in their livelihood and food.

About the global report

The global report on food crises is issued Annually on the global network of fighting food crises by relying on an analysis of the food security information network, an international alliance that includes the United Nations, the European Union, governmental and non -governmental agencies that work together to address food crises.

It is a unique platform that combines major operating agencies, international financial institutions, member states and organizations that are jointly seeking to reduce hunger and end through evidence based on evidence and prove that they make a difference.