The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2026 | The Cost of a Healthy Diet | The Work We Do

Maximo, what are the major findings of this year's report?

Thank you, Katrin.

So this year report what shows is that for the third consecutive year, uh, the number of hungry people is declining, which is good news.

However, the improvements are uneven, and they vary by region.

They are fragile, uh, and also insufficient to achieve the SDG 2, which is what we want by 2030.

But the important thing is that we keep accelerating the decline.

If we look specifically to the numbers, we find that 7.8% of the global population faced hunger in 2025, down from 8.1% in 2024 and 8.6% in 2022.

Now, what that means in terms of numbers is that in 2025, we have 645 million people still in hunger, and which is 14 million less than in 2024 and 43 million less than in 2025.

So the numbers are complex, heterogeneity among regions.

The major improvement is happening in Latin America and the Caribbean, specifically in South America, and also in Asia, South Asia, and specifically mostly driven by, by the improvements in India.

Now, the report also shows that it's not just an issue of reduction of hunger and improvement in nutrition indicators.

It also show that it's important to look at the affordability and the costs and how much people are eating healthy diets.

In this report, we look at, uh, affordability first, and we show that 2.6 billion people are not yet able to afford a healthy diet.

But clearly, it's not just the affordability by itself, which is linked to income, but it's also linked to the cost of the healthy diet, which is the second part of the report.

And of course, finally, something that we still don't measure is how much people really are eating a healthy diet.

Mm-hmm.

At the end, what we want is bigger consumption of a healthy diet because we want to reduce undernutrition and overnutrition and to reduce non-communicable diseases, and that's what the healthy diet will bring.

So again, the 2.6 billion number is still extremely high and is something that we need to tackle, and the second part of this report look at the cost, only the cost of the healthy diet.

Maximo, what are the major findings of this year's report?

Thank you, Katrin.

So this year report what shows is that for the third consecutive year, uh, the number of hungry people is declining, which is good news.

However, the improvements are uneven, and they vary by region.

They are fragile, uh, and also insufficient to achieve the SDG 2, which is what we want by 2030.

But the important thing is that we keep accelerating the decline.

If we look specifically to the numbers, we find that 7.8% of the global population faced hunger in 2025, down from 8.1% in 2024 and 8.6% in 2022.

Now, what that means in terms of numbers is that in 2025, we have 645 million people still in hunger, and which is 14 million less than in 2024 and 43 million less than in 2025.

So the numbers are complex, heterogeneity among regions.

The major improvement is happening in Latin America and the Caribbean, specifically in South America, and also in Asia, South Asia, and specifically mostly driven by, by the improvements in India.

Now, the report also shows that it's not just an issue of reduction of hunger and improvement in nutrition indicators.

It also show that it's important to look at the affordability and the costs and how much people are eating healthy diets.

In this report, we look at, uh, affordability first, and we show that 2.6 billion people are not yet able to afford a healthy diet.

But clearly, it's not just the affordability by itself, which is linked to income, but it's also linked to the cost of the healthy diet, which is the second part of the report.

And of course, finally, something that we still don't measure is how much people really are eating a healthy diet.

Mm-hmm.

At the end, what we want is bigger consumption of a healthy diet because we want to reduce undernutrition and overnutrition and to reduce non-communicable diseases, and that's what the healthy diet will bring.

So again, the 2.6 billion number is still extremely high and is something that we need to tackle, and the second part of this report look at the cost, only the cost of the healthy diet.