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| Chart showing ratios between % of population and food, security, etc, source: FAO |
About 1 in 3 Albanians suffer from food insecurity due to lack of money or other resources.
The latest data in the report "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World in 2022" published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that the average in the years 2019-2021 of percentage of the population that fall into the indicator named as "prevalence of food insecurity" is 30.9 percent. This average has decreased compared to the years 2014-2016 when the percentage was 38.8 percent.
If we divide this percentage and take only the part of those who have severe food insecurity, the indicator recorded by Albania is 7.7 percent for the last three years. This indicator has also marked an improvement in relation to the previous survey when the result was 10 percent of the population.
In the Southern European region where a number of countries are counted, our country is the one with the highest level of population that has mild or severe food insecurity. North Macedonia accounts for 20.9 percent of the population in 2019-2021, while Serbia has 14.1 percent. After them comes Montenegro with 14 percent, Bosnia-Herzegovina with 12.6 percent, and Croatia with 11.4 percent. Western Europe has this indicator at only 4.4 percent.
Prevalence indicator of moderate or severe food insecurity. The report explains what this indicator actually is and how it is calculated. "Prevalence of food insecurity measured by the degree of experience of food insecurity Definition: Food insecurity measured by this indicator is limited by the access to food of individuals or families due to the lack of money or other resources. The severity of food insecurity is measured by data collected from the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES-SM) survey module, a set of eight questions that ask respondents to report their conditions and experiences related to limited access to food.