Before you play

What Food Affordability Means

This game compares the share of people who cannot afford a healthy diet.

  • The name is shorthand. The actual figure is the percentage of the population unable to afford a healthy diet, not a generic grocery-price index.
  • The World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition data estimate the least-cost healthy diet and compare that cost with the income or expenditure available to people in each country.
  • A lower percentage means healthier eating is financially reachable for more people; a higher percentage means healthy diets stay out of reach for a larger share of the population.
  • In each round, pick the country with the higher unaffordability share, or SAME when the percentages match.

Cheap calories are not the same thing as an affordable healthy diet.