Food Security Update | World Bank Response to Rising Food Insecurity This page in:English

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/agriculture/brief/food-security-update Latest Update – September 30, 2024 Domestic food price inflation remains high in many low- and middle-income countries. Inflation higher than 5% is experienced in 77.3% of low-income countries (18.2 percentage points higher since the last Update on June 27, 2024), 54.3% of lower-middle-income countries (8.7 percentage points lower), 44% of upper-middle-income countries (8.0 percentage points higher), and 10.7% of high-income countries (0.2 percentage points lower). In real terms, food price inflation exceeded overall inflation in 55.6% of the 167 countries where data is available.