Africa now world’s hunger capital, as global hunger falls for third year
…1 in 5 Africans still goes hungry …UN warns healthy diets remain beyond reach for billions By Chioma Obinna Global hunger declined for the third consecutive year in 2025, but Africa has emerged as the epicentre of the world’s food crisis, with the continent now accounting for the highest number of hungry people globally, a new United Nations report has revealed.
The report, jointly produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), UNICEF, World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO), estimates that about 645 million people worldwide went hungry in 2025.
Although the global number of hungry people fell by nearly 14 million compared to 2024 and by 43 million since 2022, the UN warned that progress remains fragile and far too slow to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger by 2030.
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