Annex III NOTES
For specific country notes, See Tables A.1.1 and A.1.2 in FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP & WHO. 2023. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023. Urbanization, agrifood system transformation and healthy diets across the rural-urban continuum. Rome, FAO. https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cc3017en
Prevalence of undernourishment
Regional estimates were included when more than 50 percent of the population was covered. National estimates are reported as three-year moving averages to control for the low reliability of some of the underlying parameters such as the year-to-year variation in food commodity stocks, one of the components of the annual FAO Food Balance Sheets, for which complete and reliable information is scarce. Regional and global aggregates are reported as annual estimates on account of the fact that possible estimation errors are expected not to be correlated across countries.
Food insecurity
Regional estimates were included when more than 50 percent of the population was covered. To reduce the margin of error, national estimates are presented as three-year averages. FAO estimates refer to the number of people living in households where at least one adult has been found to be food insecure.
Country-level results are presented only for those countries for which estimates are based on official national data or as provisional estimates, based on FAO data collected through the Gallup© World Poll, for countries whose national relevant authorities expressed no objection to their publication. Note that consent to publication does not necessarily imply validation of the estimate by the national authorities involved and that the estimate is subject to revision as soon as suitable data from official national sources are available. Global, regional and subregional aggregates are based on data collected in approximately 150 countries.
Estimates are not available for the Caribbean for the period 2014–2019 as data is available only for countries representing less than 50 percent of the population in the subregion. The estimates for Latin America and the Caribbean from 2014 to 2019 include Caribbean countries with a combined population representing only 30 percent of the population of that subregion, while the 2020, 2021 and 2022 estimates include Caribbean countries with a combined population representing between 60 and 65 percent of the subregional population. The countries included in the 2022 estimate for the Caribbean are: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Child stunting, wasting and overweight
For child wasting regional estimates, values correspond to the model predicted estimates for 2022 only. Wasting is an acute condition that can change often and rapidly over the course of a calendar year. This makes it difficult to generate reliable trends over time with the input data available – as such, this report provides only the most recent global and regional estimates.
Exclusive breastfeeding
Regional estimates are included when more than 50 percent of the population is covered.