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Healthy diet unaffordable in France

In France, 3.5% of people could not afford a healthy diet in 2025.

Measure: People unable to afford a healthy diet Unit: % of the population Data: 2017 to 2025 Source: FAOSTAT
The latest value carries the source flag “Estimate”.
France, 2025 3.5%e (Estimate) % of the population
Change from 2024 −0.1percentage points 2024: 3.6%
World, 2025 32.7%e (Estimate) Official aggregate
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2025 5.8% Middle value of 27 countries
Position in 2025 123rd of 145 See the full ranking

Healthy diet unaffordable in France 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 FranceWorld
2025 3.5%e (Estimated value) 32.7%e (Estimated value)
2024 3.6%e (Estimated value) 34.3%e (Estimated value)
2023 3.7%e (Estimated value) 35.4%e (Estimated value)
2022 3.5%e (Estimated value) 36.7%e (Estimated value)
2021 3.6%e (Estimated value) 37.4%e (Estimated value)
2020 3.2%e (Estimated value) 39.6%e (Estimated value)
2019 3.8%e (Estimated value) 38.0%e (Estimated value)
2018 2.5%e (Estimated value) 39.0%e (Estimated value)
2017 2.3%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 −0.1 percentage points from 3.6% in 2024.
  • Since 2017, when it was 2.3%, the figure has changed by +1.2 percentage points.
  • Among the 145 countries with data for 2025, France has the 123rd highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 32.7%.

More for France

All statistics for France
Cost of a healthy diet Int$4.12e (Estimate) per person per day 2025 · FAOSTAT Area under organic farming 9.5%e (Estimated) 2024 · Eurostat Pesticide use 3.90e (Estimate) kg/ha 2024 · FAOSTAT Nitrogen fertiliser use 94.9e (Estimate) kg/ha 2024 · FAOSTAT Agriculture share of GDP 1.4% 2025 · World Bank Cereal yield 6,281 kg per hectare 2024 · World Bank

Source and dates

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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 France
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