Healthy diet unaffordable in Equatorial Guinea

Name: Healthy diet unaffordable in Equatorial Guinea
Creator: FAOSTAT
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In Equatorial Guinea, 63.2% of people could not afford a healthy diet in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2017.

People unable to afford a healthy diet % of the population Data: 2017 to 2025 Source: FAOSTAT

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Equatorial Guinea, 2025 63.2%e % of the population

Change from 2024 +1.3percentage points 2024: 61.9%

World, 2025 32.7%e Official aggregate

Position in 2025 26th of 145 See the full ranking

Healthy diet unaffordable in Equatorial Guinea over time

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% of the population. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

People unable to afford a healthy diet (% of the population), 2017 to 2025
Period	Equatorial Guinea	World
2025	63.2%e (Estimated value)	32.7%e (Estimated value)
2024	61.9%e (Estimated value)	34.3%e (Estimated value)
2023	60.0%e (Estimated value)	35.4%e (Estimated value)
2022	60.7%e (Estimated value)	36.7%e (Estimated value)
2021	61.1%e (Estimated value)	37.4%e (Estimated value)
2020	61.2%e (Estimated value)	39.6%e (Estimated value)
2019	56.8%e (Estimated value)	38.0%e (Estimated value)
2018	56.9%e (Estimated value)	39.0%e (Estimated value)
2017	57.0%e (Estimated value)	41.0%e (Estimated value)

Flags: e Estimated value . A dash means no value was published.

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In short

That is a change of +1.3 percentage points from 61.9% in 2024.
Since 2017, when it was 57.0%, the figure has changed by +6.2 percentage points.
Among the 145 countries with data for 2025, Equatorial Guinea has the 26th highest value.
The figure for the world in 2025 was 32.7%.

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All statistics for Equatorial Guinea

Cost of a healthy diet Int$4.88e per person per day 2025 · FAOSTAT Pesticide use 0.98e kg/ha 2024 · FAOSTAT Nitrogen fertiliser use 1.9e kg/ha 2024 · FAOSTAT Agriculture share of GDP 3.2% 2025 · World Bank Agricultural land 3.4% 2024 · World Bank Capture fisheries production 7,253 tonnes 2024 · World Bank

Source and dates

Original producer: FAOSTAT
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT
Dataset or series code: CAHD · dataset details · view at source
Selection: Item Code=7005 Element Code=6121
Observation period: 2017 to 2025 for Equatorial Guinea
Provider update: Not stated by the provider
Retrieved: 9 November 2026
Published here: 9 November 2026
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (FAO statistical database terms)
Attribution: Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0

How Equatorial Guinea compares in 2025 Neighbouring positions among 145 countries with a value for 2025.

23 Guinea-Bissau 66.4%e (Estimated value)
24 Ghana 65.8%e (Estimated value)
25 Burkina Faso 65.5%e (Estimated value)
26 Equatorial Guinea 63.2%e (Estimated value)
27 Pakistan 63.0%e (Estimated value)
28 Sierra Leone 61.9%e (Estimated value)
29 Syria 61.1%e (Estimated value)

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What this measures

Share of the population whose income, after setting aside an amount for other basic needs, is too low to buy the cheapest healthy diet available locally.

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