Before you play

What Food Insecurity Means

This game compares the share of people facing moderate or severe food insecurity.

  • The figure comes from FAO food-security indicators and is based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale, which asks people directly about constrained access to food.
  • This build uses the latest available 3-year average period, 2022-2024, which gives much broader country coverage than the sparse single-year series.
  • Moderate or severe food insecurity is about people struggling to access enough food, not just low calorie supply on paper.
  • In each round, pick the country with the higher food-insecurity share, or SAME when the percentages match.

A full national food supply can still leave millions of people uncertain about their next meal.