Venezuela: the share going hungry jumped from under 2.5% to 24%, then fell again
shares of adults and of all people, 2023
In 2009–2013 fewer than 2.5% of people were undernourished; in 2019, 24%, about the share of adults with obesity (23%). By 2023: 5.9%.
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Undernourishment is FAO’s modelled share of all people short of dietary energy. Obesity is the share of adults 18+ with a body-mass index of 30 or more. The denominators differ; both are FAO estimates.
Blue is the card’s first number, orange the second; they share one scale. The gap between them is shaded. The large numbers are the latest year both lines share.
- Obesity among adults aged 18+ %
19.20 (2001) → 23.00 (2023)
- Prevalence of undernourishment % of population
14.1 (2001) → 5.9 (2023)
Only years where both series are published; gaps are not filled. An overtaking counts if the new leader was behind at the start and ahead in no more than a fifth of the years before it, and it leads in the latest shared year and in at least two shared years in a row. A short dip of up to two years does not end a lead and is named; if the leader was ahead once before, that year is named too. Size thresholds pick a story and do not show that one causes the other.
Undernourishment published as «<2.5%» is a bound, not a value; such years are not counted as an overtaking. FAO year labels can stand for three-year windows.
A question for this picture
Can hunger and obesity live in the same family?