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Visualizing Food Unaffordability Across The World
By Tyler Durden
Food is the palate’s poetry, the body’s fuel, and a shared language transcending cultures… when people can afford it.
As Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao details below, the World Health Organization found that the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine pushed 122 million more people into food insecurity between 2019 and 2022. Higher food prices, combined with increasing poverty, have resulted in rising food unaffordability, especially in certain regions of the world.
ℹ️ A person is food insecure when they lack regular access to enough safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life.
Ranked: Food Unaffordability as a Share of Population
A healthy diet—in this case, one that meets government dietary guidelines—is considered unaffordable in a country when its cost exceeds 52% of per capita income per day.
Immediate trends in food unaffordability are discoverable from a glance at the map. The wash of red in Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia indicates the regions where the majority of the population cannot afford a healthy diet.
Ranking the countries by pure percentages in the table below allows us to get a closer look at country-level issues.
| Rank | Country | Can’t Afford Healthy Diet |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
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