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Beware of data that is relevant but inaccurate, or accurate but irrelevant. Only relevant and accurate data is useful.","What share of the world’s population don't have en","What share of the world’s population don't have enough food to meet their daily energy needs?","What share of the world’s population don't have enough food to meet their daily needs?",[119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138],"swe 0.7379038972397249","nor 0.7435213842058541","fin 0.864613827399947","dnk 0.73396947534042","gbr 0.8513999999999999","usa 0.83","bra 0.76","fra 0.82","deu 0.85","jpn 0.75","mex 0.91","rus 0.59","esp 0.85","mys 0.63","mar 0.79","zaf 0.84","ind 0.7","pak 0.73","nga 0.88","phl 0.79",[140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159],"phl 0.48","nga 0.68","pak 0.49","ind 0.38","zaf 0.67","nor 0.31","fin 0.42","dnk 0.3","mar 0.5","swe 0.34","esp 0.53","rus 0.4","mex 0.7","jpn 0.48","deu 0.46","fra 0.5","bra 0.5","usa 0.41","gbr 0.4575","mys 0.35","Around 11% of the world’s population don’t have enough food.\n\n\u003Chttps:\u002F\u002Fvimeo.com\u002F885172015>","In most people’s heads there are more hungry mouths than in reality. Before the pandemic, 9% were hungry worldwide, which was of course too many. Now it’s 11%, but you thought the problem was twice as large.","In most people’s heads there are more hungry mouths than in reality. The problem of starvation must seem impossible to solve for them as they  overestimate it by two or three times.","Source: UN","The estimates of undernourishment in 2024 are far from exact[1]. But even if the correct answer 11% is just an estimate, the wrong options are definitely not correct.\n\nWe have checked these assumptions against three different methods to estimate hunger based on three different kinds of data: 1. Available food, 2. Body weights and heights of children, 3. Extreme poverty. Each of  these datasets have large uncertainties, but the estimates for wasted children (7% in 2024) and extreme poverty (10% in 2025) are both lower than 11%, which indicates that hunger is probably in that range, and certainly not as high as the wrong option to this question of 23%.\nFAO[1] estimates the number of hungry people based on the number of calories available in each country each year, as documented in food balance sheets. These calories are then assumed to be purchased by the population based on the income of people, which in 2024 results in a rough estimate of the number of people who couldn’t afford enough food of 8.2% of the world population.\n\nOne measure of child malnutrition is wasting: the share of children with low body weight for height (indicating thinness). In 2024 the global wasting number was 7% of all children under age five, according to UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank [2]. This estimate indicates how many families who often experience food shortage.\n\nThe number of people in extreme poverty, with less than $3\u002Fday, was 10% in 2025, according to the World Bank[3], calculated from data based on household income surveys from recent years and taking into account the corona pandemic effect.\n\n[1]  [Hunger estimate from The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025, by UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization FAO, together with IFAD, UNICEF, WFP & WHO](https:\u002F\u002Fopenknowledge.fao.org\u002Fserver\u002Fapi\u002Fcore\u002Fbitstreams\u002F4eed749b-81f8-49c9-ba32-f09c66988d54\u002Fcontent\u002Fstate-food-security-and-nutrition-2025\u002Fending-hunger-food-security.html#gsc.tab=0)  \n[2]  [Wasting data from Joint Child Malnutrition estimates by UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank](https:\u002F\u002Fdata.worldbank.org\u002Findicator\u002FSH.STA.WAST.ZS)  \n[3]  [Extreme poverty rate – World Bank via Our World In Data](https:\u002F\u002Fblogs.worldbank.org\u002Fen\u002Fopendata\u002Fjune-2025-global-poverty-update-from-the-world-bank--2021-ppps-a)  \n[4] We consulted three independent experts about this question, including Jessica Fanzo of Johns Hopkins University.","Most of us don’t want to trivialize suffering and it’s common that people overestimate the numbers when guessing about any kind of victims. It can have the unintended consequence of ruining our hope if the problem ends up seeming larger than it actually is.\n\nIn 2024, around 11% of the world population (more than 700 million people) didn’t have enough food. \n\n### Why is it a problem that people are wrong about this?\nWhen we hear that hunger increases in the world we might think the problem is too big to be solved. But, even after the increase, the number of people in need is still much smaller than most people realize, and ending hunger can be done.\n\n### Why are people wrong about this?\nBecause they have empathy. Images of famine and starvation are horrifying and stick in our minds and lead us to think a huge amount of the world’s population don’t have enough to eat.\n\n### Can I trust this fact?\nYes, but the estimates are far from exact. But even if the correct answer 11% is just an estimate, the wrong options are definitely not correct.\n\nWe have checked these assumptions against three different methods to estimate hunger based on three different kinds of data: 1. Available food, 2. Body weights and heights of children, 3. Extreme poverty. Each of  these datasets have large uncertainties, but the estimates for wasted children (7% in 2024) and extreme poverty (10% in 2025) are both lower than 11%, which indicates that hunger is probably in that range, and certainly not as high as the wrong option to this question of 23%.\n\nThe FAO estimates the number of hungry people based on the number of calories available in each country each year, as documented in food balance sheets. These calories are then assumed to be purchased by the population based on the income of people, which in 2024 results in a rough estimate of the number of people who couldn’t afford enough food of 8.2% of the world population.\n\nOne measure of child malnutrition is wasting (the share of children with low body weight for height, indicating thinness). In 2024 the global wasting number was 7% of all children under age five, according to UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank. This estimate indicates how many families who often experience food shortage.\n\nThe number of people in extreme poverty, with less than $3 per day, was estimated to be around 10% in 2025, calculated from data based on household income surveys from recent years.\n\n### Discover more\n[See plates of food on different income levels](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Fdollar-street\u002F?topic=plates-of-food) from all over the World. \n\n[Read more about hunger](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.fao.org\u002F3\u002Fcc3017en\u002Fonline\u002Fcc3017en.html) at FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations).\n","The world would be terrible if you were right!","In most people’s heads there are more hungry mouths than in reality. Around 11% of people don't have enough to eat which is too many, but you thought the problem was three times larger.","You have too many starving in your head"]