How many people faced hunger in 2024?
Take your best guess.
0 million
people faced hunger in 2024
Source: UN’s 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report.
(range 638–720 million)
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We produce enough food for everyone on Earth. Yet, in 2024*:
1 in 12
people globally did not get enough calories to simply function
An estimated million people — representing of the global population — faced chronic hunger.
SOFI 2025 — FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO
1 in 3
people could not afford the food necessary to live a healthy life
Approximately people globally were unable to afford the minimum cost of a healthy, nutritious diet.
SOFI 2025 — FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO
1 in 4
children under five
lived in severe
child food poverty
children under five experienced severe child food poverty — surviving on at most two out of eight recommended food groups per day.
Child Food Poverty — UNICEF, June 2024
* Note: 2024 is the most recent year with a complete, fully analyzed global dataset. Comprehensive global data covering the entirety of 2025 will be released in July 2026 as part of the UN’s annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report.
Hunger should not exist.
We produce more than enough for everyone alive.
So if hunger isn’t a production problem,
what kind of problem is it?
Tell us: what do you think
needs to change?