Many People Still Hungry: Two Famines in 2025
Introduction
A new report says that in 2025, about 266 million people in 47 countries did not have enough food. For the first time, two places had famine: parts of Gaza and Sudan. Since 2020, more than 20% of people in these countries are hungry. In 2016, it was only 11.3%.
Main Body
Conflict and war are the biggest reasons for hunger. They affect 147 million people in 19 countries. Bad weather is the main reason in 16 countries (87 million people). Economic problems are the main reason in 12 countries (29 million people). Ten countries have most of the hungry people. Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo have the most people. Gaza and South Sudan have the highest percentage of hungry people. In 2025, 1.4 million people had very extreme hunger. This is nine times more than in 2016. Gaza had 640,700 people with famine (32% of its people). Sudan had 637,200 (1% of its people). Other places with extreme hunger: South Sudan, Yemen, Haiti, Mali. Also, 39 million people in 32 countries had emergency hunger. Many children are very sick from not enough food. 35.5 million children are malnourished. 10 million of them are very sick. 9.2 million pregnant women are also malnourished. 85.1 million people had to leave their homes because of hunger. The UN says that hunger and displacement make each other worse. Money for food help went down a lot in 2025. Humanitarian food funding fell by 39%. Development aid fell by 15%. The United States cut its money by 57%. Germany gave more money than the US for the first time. Other countries also cut aid. The report says this will make it hard to help hungry people.
Conclusion
The report says that hunger is a big problem that stays for many years. It is worst in countries with war. Money for help is going down. Without more work to stop wars and give more aid, many poor countries will have more hungry people in 2026 and later.