NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2023: Statistics and trends

FAO uses the World Bank income groups, available at https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups

The groupings are:

• high-income economies: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates;
• lower-middle-income economies: Algeria, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia;
• low-income economies: Somalia, the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen; and
• upper-middle-income economies: Iraq, Jordan, Libya.

In addition, the following groupings are used for information purposes:

• Arab States LDCs: the Comoros, Djibouti, Mauritania, Somalia, the Sudan, Yemen;
• conflict countries: Iraq, Libya, Somalia, the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen; and
• non-conflict countries: Algeria, Bahrain, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates.

The categorization of countries as being affected or not affected by conflict used in this report is determined by the FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa and is not necessarily aligned with the classification used in The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report.