UN report says Nigeria, nine countries account for two-thirds of global acute hunger burden

Nigeria and nine other conflict-affected countries accounted for nearly two-thirds of the world’s population facing acute food insecurity in 2025, according to the 2026 global report on food crises (GRFC).

The report, released on Friday by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) with contributions from the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) and other partners, found that 266 million people across 47 countries experienced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2025.

The figure represents almost a quarter of the population analysed and nearly double the proportion recorded in 2016.

The ten countries are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

The report said together, they account for the majority of those facing severe hunger globally, with Nigeria, DR Congo and Sudan alone representing almost one-third of the total.

The report confirmed famine conditions in Gaza and parts of Sudan in 2025, the first time since the GRFC began tracking data that two separate famines have been recorded in a single year. Thecable