Mozambique reduced between May and August this year, from 9.8 to 7.2 million, the number of people living at high risk of hunger, according to data released by the World Food Program (WFP), an agency of the United Nations (UN).

It means that 2.6 million Mozambicans are no longer threatened by food insecurity, a trend that results from the good harvests achieved in the current 2021-2022 agricultural campaign.

At the global level, the UN food security map, quoted by the newspaper Domingo, indicates that 860 million people in 91 of the 195 countries in the world do not have enough food, with 351 million being recent cases in 36 countries and 509 million in 55 states being old on the list. According to the same document, in 2020 there were registered 768 million people in the world in a situation of chronic hunger characterized by high rates of malnutrition.

Ranking the countries with the highest rates is Somalia at the top, followed by the Central African Republic, Haiti, Yemen, Madagascar, North Korea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Liberia. Last year, the study identified 193 million people in 53 countries suffering from acute hunger, which means that these people go long periods without meals and experience sporadic food crises.

This group is led by Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, Sudan, South Sudan, Pakistan and Haiti. However, in the ranking of the 12 countries with high prevalence of food insufficiency in terms of severity is first Afghanistan with 98% affected population, Somalia, with 89, Niger, 75, South Sudan, 59, Mali, 57, Guinea, 57, Mauritania, 57, Burkina Faso, 55, Yemen, 55, Sierra Leone, 54, Haiti, 50, and Syria, with 50%.