Global Hunger Response Phase II Quarterly Situation Report #3 - July 2024

This is the third quarterly report released by the Global Hunger Response (GHR) which provides a detailed overview of our qualitative and quantitative impacts, including regional situational overviews and highlights over the course of the last quarter (May 2024 - July 2024).

Despite humanitarian efforts to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and some improvements in certain regions, global hunger levels continue to worsen considering emerging and protracted crises worldwide. Acute food insecurity levels have remained high since the COVID-19 pandemic, with an increase by 24 million people in the last year alone.

Looking at the global picture, 165.5 million people in 41 countries/territories were facing crisis levels of food insecurity in 2023 (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Phase 3 or above). As a direct consequence, food insecurity has led to a remarkable rise in malnutrition, specifically among children and women respectively. Thirty-six million children under five years suffered from acute malnutrition, out of which 10 million children are severely malnourished. As for pregnant and breastfeeding women, 2.5 million in six countries were acutely malnourished, with 88% of them singlehandedly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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