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People unable to afford a healthy diet

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.

Unit: % of the population Frequency: Annual Coverage: 146 countries and 1 group 2017 to 2025 Source: FAOSTAT
Highest in 2025 93.9%e (Estimated value) South Sudan Lowest in 2025 0.6%e (Estimated value) Belarus
World, 2025 32.7%e (Estimated value) Official aggregate published by the source
Countries ranked for 2025 145

145 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.

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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.

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In short

  • Among the 145 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is South Sudan (93.9%) and the lowest Belarus (0.6%).
  • Half of the countries are above 26.4% and half below.
  • From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 23 countries and fell in 101.
  • The figure for the world was 32.7% in 2025, against 39.6% in 2020 (−6.9 percentage points).

About this measure

Definition
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.
Unit
% of the population
Frequency
Annual
Changes are shown as
Percentage points (the difference between two rates)

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
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

All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.

  1. 1 South Sudan 93.9%e (Estimated value)
  2. 2 Malawi 92.7%e (Estimated value)
  3. 3 Mozambique 91.3%e (Estimated value)
  4. 4 Burundi 90.9%e (Estimated value)
  5. 5 Democratic Republic of the Congo 90.1%e (Estimated value)
  6. 6 Haiti 88.9%e (Estimated value)
  7. 7 Central African Republic 87.6%e (Estimated value)
  8. 8 Zambia 86.2%e (Estimated value)
  9. 9 Niger 85.8%e (Estimated value)
  10. 10 Madagascar 85.3%e (Estimated value)
  11. 11 Nigeria 80.5%e (Estimated value)
  12. 12 Lesotho 77.4%e (Estimated value)
  13. 13 Republic of the Congo 77.3%e (Estimated value)
  14. 14 Kenya 76.3%e (Estimated value)
  15. 15 Uganda 73.6%e (Estimated value)
  16. 16 Tanzania 73.0%e (Estimated value)
  17. 17 Angola 72.9%e (Estimated value)
  18. 18 Rwanda 69.7%e (Estimated value)
  19. 19 Indonesia 68.6%e (Estimated value)
  20. 20 Eswatini 68.1%e (Estimated value)
  21. 21 Ethiopia 67.9%e (Estimated value)
  22. 22 Chad 66.6%e (Estimated value)
  23. 23 Guinea-Bissau 66.4%e (Estimated value)
  24. 24 Ghana 65.8%e (Estimated value)
  25. 25 Burkina Faso 65.5%e (Estimated value)
  26. 26 Equatorial Guinea 63.2%e (Estimated value)
  27. 27 Pakistan 63.0%e (Estimated value)
  28. 28 Sierra Leone 61.9%e (Estimated value)
  29. 29 Syria 61.1%e (Estimated value)
  30. 30 Mali 60.8%e (Estimated value)
  31. 31 Botswana 59.9%e (Estimated value)
  32. 32 Liberia 59.6%e (Estimated value)
  33. 33 Fiji 58.0%e (Estimated value)
  34. 34 South Africa 57.9%e (Estimated value)
  35. 35 Cameroon 55.3%e (Estimated value)
  36. 36 Togo 53.7%e (Estimated value)
  37. 37 Benin 53.5%e (Estimated value)
  38. 38 Panama 51.4%e (Estimated value)
  39. 39 São Tomé and Príncipe 51.1%e (Estimated value)
  40. 40 Mauritania 50.9%e (Estimated value)
  41. 41 Guinea 50.3%e (Estimated value)
  42. 42 Djibouti 49.8%e (Estimated value)
  43. 43 Laos 49.7%e (Estimated value)
  44. 44 Cabo Verde 49.3%e (Estimated value)
  45. 45 Comoros 48.6%e (Estimated value)
  46. 46 Namibia 47.9%e (Estimated value)
  47. 47 Guatemala 47.3%e (Estimated value)
  48. 48 Côte d'Ivoire 46.6%e (Estimated value)
  49. 49 Lebanon 46.4%e (Estimated value)
  50. 50 Senegal 45.5%e (Estimated value)
  51. 51 Philippines 45.0%e (Estimated value)
  52. 52 Armenia 44.0%e (Estimated value)
  53. 53 Gambia 43.7%e (Estimated value)
  54. 54 Seychelles 43.3%e (Estimated value)
  55. 55 Costa Rica 41.8%e (Estimated value)
  56. 56 Gabon 39.3%e (Estimated value)
  57. 57 Algeria 38.8%e (Estimated value)
  58. 58 Bangladesh 38.6%e (Estimated value)
  59. 59 Egypt 38.5%e (Estimated value)
  60. 60 Iran 37.4%e (Estimated value)
  61. 61 Chile 36.8%e (Estimated value)
  62. 62 Colombia 35.9%e (Estimated value)
  63. 63 India 35.5%e (Estimated value)
  64. 64 Sri Lanka 34.9%e (Estimated value)
  65. 65 Peru 34.8%e (Estimated value)
  66. 66 Honduras 34.2%e (Estimated value)
  67. 67 Trinidad and Tobago 32.0%e (Estimated value)
  68. 68 Uruguay 32.0%e (Estimated value)
  69. 69 Hungary 29.8%e (Estimated value)
  70. 70 Mongolia 29.8%e (Estimated value)
  71. 71 Iraq 28.0%e (Estimated value)
  72. 72 Slovakia 27.2%e (Estimated value)
  73. 73 Jamaica 26.4%e (Estimated value)
  74. 74 Ecuador 25.7%e (Estimated value)
  75. 75 Suriname 23.7%e (Estimated value)
  76. 76 Grenada 22.9%e (Estimated value)
  77. 77 Greece 22.7%e (Estimated value)
  78. 78 Israel 22.5%e (Estimated value)
  79. 79 Paraguay 22.3%e (Estimated value)
  80. 80 Kyrgyzstan 22.1%e (Estimated value)
  81. 81 Brazil 21.1%e (Estimated value)
  82. 82 Bulgaria 20.7%e (Estimated value)
  83. 83 Romania 20.1%e (Estimated value)
  84. 84 Mexico 20.0%e (Estimated value)
  85. 85 Nepal 17.9%e (Estimated value)
  86. 86 Belize 17.8%e (Estimated value)
  87. 87 Mauritius 17.8%e (Estimated value)
  88. 88 West Bank and Gaza 17.3%e (Estimated value)
  89. 89 Latvia 16.9%e (Estimated value)
  90. 90 Dominican Republic 16.2%e (Estimated value)
  91. 91 North Macedonia 15.6%e (Estimated value)
  92. 92 Portugal 14.4%e (Estimated value)
  93. 93 Japan 13.2%e (Estimated value)
  94. 94 Bosnia and Herzegovina 12.7%e (Estimated value)
  95. 95 Morocco 12.4%e (Estimated value)
  96. 96 Russia 12.4%e (Estimated value)
  97. 97 Lithuania 12.3%e (Estimated value)
  98. 98 Croatia 12.0%e (Estimated value)
  99. 99 Albania 11.9%e (Estimated value)
  100. 100 Moldova 11.4%e (Estimated value)
  101. 101 China 11.3%e (Estimated value)
  102. 102 Bolivia 10.5%e (Estimated value)
  103. 103 Estonia 10.2%e (Estimated value)
  104. 104 Guyana 9.3%e (Estimated value)
  105. 105 Spain 9.3%e (Estimated value)
  106. 106 Tunisia 8.6%e (Estimated value)
  107. 107 Serbia 8.5%e (Estimated value)
  108. 108 Italy 8.4%e (Estimated value)
  109. 109 Montenegro 7.5%e (Estimated value)
  110. 110 Poland 7.3%e (Estimated value)
  111. 111 Saint Lucia 7.1%e (Estimated value)
  112. 112 Viet Nam 7.0%e (Estimated value)
  113. 113 Uzbekistan 6.2%e (Estimated value)
  114. 114 Czechia 5.8%e (Estimated value)
  115. 115 Germany 5.3%e (Estimated value)
  116. 116 South Korea 5.3%e (Estimated value)
  117. 117 Sweden 4.9%e (Estimated value)
  118. 118 Malta 4.5%e (Estimated value)
  119. 119 United States 4.5%e (Estimated value)
  120. 120 Maldives 4.2%e (Estimated value)
  121. 121 Türkiye 4.0%e (Estimated value)
  122. 122 Bhutan 3.7%e (Estimated value)
  123. 123 France 3.5%e (Estimated value)
  124. 124 Kazakhstan 3.4%e (Estimated value)
  125. 125 Australia 3.2%e (Estimated value)
  126. 126 Canada 3.0%e (Estimated value)
  127. 127 Austria 2.9%e (Estimated value)
  128. 128 United Kingdom 2.9%e (Estimated value)
  129. 129 Slovenia 2.3%e (Estimated value)
  130. 130 Jordan 2.2%e (Estimated value)
  131. 131 Finland 2.0%e (Estimated value)
  132. 132 Qatar 1.9%e (Estimated value)
  133. 133 United Arab Emirates 1.9%e (Estimated value)
  134. 134 Iceland 1.8%e (Estimated value)
  135. 135 Cyprus 1.5%e (Estimated value)
  136. 136 Malaysia 1.4%e (Estimated value)
  137. 137 Denmark 1.3%e (Estimated value)
  138. 138 Norway 1.2%e (Estimated value)
  139. 139 Netherlands 1.1%e (Estimated value)
  140. 140 Switzerland 1.1%e (Estimated value)
  141. 141 Belgium 0.9%e (Estimated value)
  142. 142 Ireland 0.9%e (Estimated value)
  143. 143 Luxembourg 0.9%e (Estimated value)
  144. 144 Azerbaijan 0.7%e (Estimated value)
  145. 145 Belarus 0.6%e (Estimated value)
  146. World 32.7%e (Estimated value)
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