Prevalence of undernourishment in Euro area
An estimated 2.5% of people in the euro area were undernourished in 2024.
Euro area is a group: Euro area; membership follows each source definition (World Bank EMU, ECB U2 changing composition). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Euro area, 2024
2.5%
Change from 2023
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World, 2024
8.1%
Prevalence of undernourishment in Euro area over time
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% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Euro area | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.5% | 8.1% |
| 2023 | 2.5% | 8.5% |
| 2022 | 2.5% | 8.6% |
| 2021 | 2.5% | 8.6% |
| 2020 | 2.5% | 8.4% |
| 2019 | 2.5% | 7.5% |
| 2018 | 2.5% | 7.4% |
| 2017 | 2.5% | 7.2% |
| 2016 | 2.5% | 7.6% |
| 2015 | 2.5% | 8.0% |
| 2014 | 2.5% | 7.4% |
| 2013 | 2.5% | 7.7% |
| 2012 | 2.5% | 8.2% |
| 2011 | 2.5% | 8.2% |
| 2010 | 2.5% | 8.7% |
| 2009 | 2.6% | 9.0% |
| 2008 | 2.6% | 9.3% |
| 2007 | 2.6% | 10.0% |
| 2006 | 2.6% | 11.0% |
| 2005 | 2.6% | 12.1% |
| 2004 | 2.6% | 12.7% |
| 2003 | 2.6% | 12.9% |
| 2002 | 2.6% | 13.2% |
| 2001 | 2.7% | 13.0% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is unchanged from 2023.
- Since 2014, when it was 2.5%, the figure has changed by 0 percentage points.
- The figure for the world in 2024 was 8.1%.
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