Prevalence of undernourishment (% of population)

Indicator id: undernourishment · Unit: % · Coverage: 2000-2022

Percentage of the population whose habitual food consumption is insufficient to provide the dietary energy levels required to maintain a normal, active, healthy life.

Sources

• World Bank (preferred) -- dataset WDI, code SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS (https://data.worldbank.org)
• Our World in Data -- dataset prevalence-of-undernourishment, code _2_1_1_prevalence_of_undernourishment__000000000024000__value__006121__percent (https://ourworldindata.org)

Reconciliation note: OWID republishes the SDG 2.1.1 chart, the same FAO modelled estimate World Bank republishes directly -- matched exactly for every Nepal year checked (2014-2023). UN SDG's own 2.1.1 series (SN_ITK_DEFC) was tried and reverted: it is otherwise identical to the other two, but Nepal's 2024 row is a footnoted "figure not provided" encoded as a literal NaN value, and DuckDB sorts NaN as greater than any finite number -- it fails assert_values_within_plausible_range's upper-bound check no matter how high plausible_max is set, so there is no bound-widening fix available, only leaving the series unwired.

Caveats

FAO modelled estimate served via World Bank; low-prevalence countries are sometimes reported as "<2.5" rather than a precise number by the original FAO source.

Taxonomy

SDG: SDG 2.1 -- End hunger and ensure access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food
Topic: Agriculture & Rural Development, Health
Themes: food, health

Also known as

"hunger", "undernourishment", "food insecurity", "how many people are hungry in Nepal"

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