International Food Security
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Project Citation:
US Department of Agriculture, and National Agricultural Library. International Food Security. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-06-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/E250237V1
Project Description
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International Food Security
Summary:
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This dataset measures food availability and access for 76 low- and middle-income countries. The dataset includes annual country-level data on area, yield, production, nonfood use, trade, and consumption for grains and root and tuber crops (combined as R&T in the documentation tables), food aid, total value of imports and exports, gross domestic product, and population compiled from a variety of sources.
This dataset is the basis for the International Food Security Assessment 2015-2025 released in June 2015. This annual ERS report projects food availability and access for 76 low- and middle-income countries over a 10-year period.
Countries (Spatial Description, continued): Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Resources in this dataset:
Resource Title: CSV File for all years and all countries. File Name: gfa25.csv
Resource Title: CSV File for all years and all countries.
File Name: gfa25.csv
Resource Title: International Food Security country data. File Name: GrainDemandProduction.xlsxResource Description: Excel files of individual country data. Please note that these files provide the data in a different layout from the CSV file. This version of the data files was updated 9-2-2021 More up-to-date files may be found at: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/international-food-security.aspx
Resource Title: International Food Security country data.
File Name: GrainDemandProduction.xlsx
Resource Description: Excel files of individual country data. Please note that these files provide the data in a different layout from the CSV file. This version of the data files was updated 9-2-2021 More up-to-date files may be found at: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/international-food-security.aspx
This dataset is the basis for the International Food Security Assessment 2015-2025 released in June 2015. This annual ERS report projects food availability and access for 76 low- and middle-income countries over a 10-year period.
Countries (Spatial Description, continued): Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Resources in this dataset:
Resource Title: CSV File for all years and all countries. File Name: gfa25.csv
Resource Title: CSV File for all years and all countries.
File Name: gfa25.csv
Resource Title: International Food Security country data. File Name: GrainDemandProduction.xlsxResource Description: Excel files of individual country data. Please note that these files provide the data in a different layout from the CSV file. This version of the data files was updated 9-2-2021 More up-to-date files may be found at: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/international-food-security.aspx
Resource Title: International Food Security country data.
File Name: GrainDemandProduction.xlsx
Resource Description: Excel files of individual country data. Please note that these files provide the data in a different layout from the CSV file. This version of the data files was updated 9-2-2021 More up-to-date files may be found at: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/international-food-security.aspx
Original Distribution URL:
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https://agdatacommons.nal.usda.gov/articles/dataset/International_Food_Security/24660480
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Food Security;
international;
Poverty;
diet;
nutrition;
food availability;
food insecurity;
statistics;
Internet;
FAO;
hunger;
data collection;
sociodemographic characteristics;
food and nutrition programs;
low-income countries;
middle-income countries;
crops;
Trade;
imports;
exports;
GDP;
grains;
root crops;
tuber crops
Geographic Coverage:
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United States
Time Period(s):
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1/1/1990 – 12/31/2015
Data Type(s):
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geographic information system (GIS) data
Collection Notes:
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DOI: 10.15482/USDA.ADC/1299294
Citation: US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service (2016). International Food Security. USDA Economic Research Service. https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1299294 (Downloaded 2026-06-26)
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