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   Egypt: 44% of adults are obese, yet 31% of people lack adequate food

   In 2023, 30.8% of people ate less or worse than they needed for lack of money (FAO estimate). Adult obesity: 43.5%. The data do not say whether these are the same people.

   Source: FAO · World BankOpen on the chart →

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   Lack of adequate food and excess weight occur in the same country at once: cheap high-calorie food is not the same as a full diet.

   Bar length shows the value from zero. All values are for the same year.

   • Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population % of population

     30.8 (2023)

     Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population (%)

   • Obesity among adults aged 18+ %

     43.5 (2023)

     FAO: FAOSTAT

   The latest shared published year no later than 2025. No interpolation. Countries are selected editorially; this is not a ranking or a statistical test.

   FAO: moderate or severe food insecurity, meaning people cut back on or worsened their diet for lack of money; FAO publishes it as a three-year average, delivered here via the World Bank. Adult (18+) obesity is a modelled estimate published by FAO. Do not add the shares or assume they describe the same people; the chart does not establish a cause.

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   How do diet quality, food access and obesity vary within the country?

More findings

• Egypt now has more people than Italy
• Egypt: 297 thousand more people died than usual in 2020–2021; officially 22 thousand died of COVID
• Egypt: the undernourished share is 1.8 times what it was in 2010
• Goals to lower fertility: 2 of 4 came true on time. Ethiopia: 4.27 children per woman against a target of 3
• Renewables’ share of electricity: 8 targets, 4 reached by the deadline. Germany: 55.1% against a target of 40%
• Egypt: 8 times in a row the IMF cut its growth forecast for 2014

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