Facts and figures on Hunger and nutrition

1. Global hunger remained relatively unchanged from 2021 to 2022, but is still far above pre-COVID-19-pandemic levels, affecting around 9.2 percent of the world population in 2022 compared with 7.9 percent in 2019.

• 2. Nearly 600 million people are projected to be chronically undernourished by 2030. The pandemic and the war in Ukraine led to 119 million more people being undernourished than if neither had occurred
• 3. A third of rural adults experienced moderate or severe food insecurity in 2022, compared to 28.8% in peri-urban and 26% in urban areas.
• 4. The global gender gap in food insecurity decreased from 3.8 to 2.4 percentage points between 2021 and 2022.
• 5. Urbanization challenges include the availability of unhealthy fast food, lack of fresh produce, exclusion of small farmers, and loss of natural capital due to urban expansion.
• 6. In the 11 African countries studied, processed food consumption is higher in urban areas, but still prevalent in peri-urban and rural areas.
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In 2021, UN Secretary-General Anto?nio Guterres convened a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The Summit launched bold new actions to deliver progress on all 17 SDGs, each of which relies to some degree on healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems