Chapter 4 Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet
Key messages- The effects of inflation in consumer food prices stemming from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to contain it, have increased the costs and the unaffordability of a healthy diet around the world.
- Between 2019 and 2020, Asia witnessed the highest surge in the cost of a healthy diet (4.0 percent), followed by Oceania (3.6 percent). This surge pushed up the average cost of a healthy diet to USD 3.98 per person per day.
- Almost 1.9 billion people or nearly 44.5 percent of the population in the Asia and the Pacific region cannot afford a healthy diet.
