Global Food Security Index

This chart shows the Global Security Food Index for the year 2015.

The 2015 Global Food Security Index provides a worldwide perspective on which countries are the most and least vulnerable to food insecurity.The Global Food Security Index (GFSI) considers the core issues of affordability, availabilty, and quality & safety across a set of 109 countries. The index is a dynamic quantitative benchmarking model, constructed from 28 unique indicators that measure these drivers of food security across both developing and developed countries.

During the past year, food security has improved in almost every region of the world, according to the 2015 Global Food Security Index (GFSI).High-income countries still dominate the top of the rankings, but lower-middle-income countries made the biggest gains.