Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer)
Share who went without enough food to eat at least once in the past year — part of Afrobarometer’s lived-poverty measure. Afrobarometer Round 9, 2023.
Source: Afrobarometer (Round 9) Licence: Afrobarometer terms — public aggregates Unit: % Parsed: 2026-09-28 Open source ↗
Period: Round 9 (2021–2023). Method: Weighted by within-country weight (withinwt_ea); share giving the stated response.
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Avg (2023)
58.6%
single period
Improving
0
of 39 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
39
±0.5pp band
Went without enough food at least once in the past year
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Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) — full ranking
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| # | Entity | Went without enough food at least once in the past year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇨🇬 Congo-Brazzaville | 86.8% |
| 2 | 🇳🇪 Niger | 85.3% |
| 3 | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | 83.4% |
| 4 | 🇲🇷 Mauritania | 82% |
| 5 | 🇦🇴 Angola | 81.4% |
| 6 | 🇱🇷 Liberia | 75.8% |
| 7 | 🇨🇲 Cameroon | 75% |
| 8 | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | 73.9% |
| 9 | 🇲🇼 Malawi | 73.5% |
| 10 | 🇬🇦 Gabon | 73.4% |
| 11 | 🇹🇬 Togo | 67.5% |
| 12 | 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone | 67% |
| 13 | 🇲🇿 Mozambique | 66.7% |
| 14 | 🇱🇸 Lesotho | 66.5% |
| 15 | 🇧🇯 Benin | 66% |
| 16 | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | 65% |
| 17 | 🇸🇿 Eswatini | 64.5% |
| 18 | 🇳🇦 Namibia | 63.1% |
| 19 | 🇺🇬 Uganda | 62.3% |
| 20 | 🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe | 62.2% |
| 21 | 🇰🇪 Kenya | 61.1% |
| 22 | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | 61% |
| 23 | 🇬🇳 Guinea | 61% |
| 24 | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | 60.3% |
| 25 | 🇧🇼 Botswana | 59.8% |
| 26 | 🇿🇲 Zambia | 59.3% |
| 27 | 🇿🇦 South Africa | 51.7% |
| 28 | 🇬🇲 Gambia | 50.5% |
| 29 | 🇸🇳 Senegal | 49.5% |
| 30 | 🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire | 49% |
| 31 | 🇸🇩 Sudan | 48.9% |
| 32 | 🇲🇱 Mali | 47.1% |
| 33 | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | 42.4% |
| 34 | 🇬🇭 Ghana | 36.4% |
| 35 | 🇨🇻 Cabo Verde | 29.7% |
| 36 | 🇹🇳 Tunisia | 28.9% |
| 37 | 🇲🇦 Morocco | 17% |
| 38 | 🇲🇺 Mauritius | 16.7% |
| 39 | 🇸🇨 Seychelles | 12.4% |