Global hunger declines for third year, but Africa crisis deepens amid regional disparities

645 million people faced hunger in 2025; 2.1 billion experienced moderate or severe food insecurity; 150 million children under five remain stunted; women remain disproportionately affected by food insecurity.

For the third consecutive year, the world has edged back from one of its oldest afflictions — hunger — with 645 million people affected in 2025, a reduction of 43 million since 2022. Yet progress, as five United Nations agencies remind us, is not the same as justice: Africa now shelters more hungry people than any other continent, healthy diets remain financially out of reach for 2.7 billion, and conflict in the Middle East threatens to undo what patient coordination has built. The arc of improvement is real, but it bends unevenly, and the distance to 2030 is shorter than the distance yet to t

Global hunger declines for third year, but Africa crisis deepens amid regional disparities

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