Gas sector, where 80% of the population are internally displaced persons, is experiencing the most acute food crisis in the world. This is stated in the UN report called “Food Security and Nutrition in the World in 2024”.
The document was prepared by the UN food and agricultural organization, the World Food Program, the International Agricultural Development Fund, the UN Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization.
According to the report, the entire population of the gas sector (2.23 million people) is faced with a high level of acute food lack.
By the end of 2023, all residents of the exclus were classified as in the “crisis” of the third stage or lower on the IPC scale.
The report says that the number of starving in the world in 2023 was about 733 million people, which corresponds to every 11th resident of the Earth.
In 2022-2023, the situation with hunger worsened in most regions of West Asia, the Caribbean and Africa south of Sahara. The share of the starving population in Africa increased to 20.4%, in Asia it amounted to 8.1%), and in Latin America – 6.2%.
In Africa, the percentage of the population struggling with hunger increased to 20.4%. In Asia, it grew to 8.1%, in Latin America and the Caribbean to 6.2%, and in Oceania to 7.3%.
If the current trends remain, then in 2030, about 582 million people will suffer from chronic malnutrition, and half of them in Africa.
A moderate or acute lack of food affected 2.33 billion people last year. Among them, more than 864 million people lived in the conditions of an acute lack of food security, sometimes remaining without food for one or more days.