In October 2023, the World Bank published the updated World Food Security Outlook (WFSO) report designed to monitor and analyze global food security, offering insights into severe food insecurity worldwide. Key components of the WFSO cover severe food insecurity prevalence, estimates for countries lacking official data, population sizes of the severely food insecure, and required safety net financing. One of its primary uses lies in complementing official data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published in the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report, filling in gaps for unreported countries and a forward-looking view based on a machine learning model that leverages the World Bank’s World Development Indicators (WDI) database and the IMF’s World Economic Outlook (WEO).
