Acute hunger remains widespread and increasingly concentrated, with 266 million people facing high levels of food insecurity in 2025, according to the Global Report on Food Crises 2026.
The report, released Friday by the Global Network Against Food Crises, an international alliance of the United Nations, the European Union, and various governmental and non-governmental agencies, shows conditions have worsened over the past decade even as the latest total is slightly lower than in 2024. That decline reflects gaps in data rather than improvement, the report says.
