Healthy diet unaffordable in World

Name: Healthy diet unaffordable in World
Creator: FAOSTAT
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In the world, 32.7% of people could not afford a healthy diet in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 2017.

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

World is a group: All economies covered by the World Bank. The value is the aggregate published by FAOSTAT, not an average calculated on this site.

The latest value carries the source flag “Estimate”.

World, 2025 32.7%e % of the population

Change from 2024 −1.6percentage points 2024: 34.3%

Healthy diet unaffordable in World 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.

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

That is a change of −1.6 percentage points from 34.3% in 2024.
Since 2017, when it was 41.0%, the figure has changed by −8.3 percentage points.