Countries With the Lowest Food Insecurity

Every country with a figure for food insecurity, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Belarus (1%), Cyprus (1.4%) and Kazakhstan (1.4%). The middle country of the 157 has 24%.

What this measures

Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population (%), in % of population. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, Food Insecurity Experience Scale. For this measure, higher is worse.

Asked of people, in a survey about running out of food, and reported as a three-year average from 2015. It is the one measure of hunger here that comes from what people say they went through, rather than from a model.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2017–2024. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on food insecurity

• Countries With the Highest Food Insecurity
• Food insecurity by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.