More than two million people are undernourished in Morocco, while the number of people unable to afford a healthy diet in the country reached 6.2 million in 2020, according to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 report.
Published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other UN bodies, the report found that the prevalence of malnourishment in Morocco has slightly increased, rising from 5.5% of the total population between 2004 and 2006 to 5.6% between 2019 and 2021.
This is the equivalent of 1.7 million people in the first period and 2.1 million in the second.
The report indicates that the severe prevalence of food insecurity among the Moroccan population rose from 6% between 2014 and 2016 to 9.7% between 2019 and 2021.
While the prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years of age has decreased from 16.4% in 2012 to 12.9% in 2020 (from 0.5 million to 0.4 million), the prevalence of overweight has increased from 11.8% in 2012 to 11.3% in 2020, which is equivalent to about 0.4 million children.
Regarding the prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age (15-49 years), the UN report indicates that it increased from 29.8% in 2012 to 29.9% in 2019 (from 2.7 million to 2.9). The prevalence of low birth weight in 2012 reached 17.5%, before declining in 2015 to 17.3% (0.1 million).
The same report indicates that the cost of a healthy diet per person per day reached $2.7 in Morocco in 2020. The number of people unable to afford a healthy diet in the country over the same year reached 6.2 million people.
Globally, the number of people affected by hunger increased to 828 million in 2021.
The report provides further evidence that the world is moving in the opposite direction of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), relating to the eradication of all forms of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, namely the “zero hunger” goal.
The report notes that after remaining relatively unchanged since 2015, the proportion of people affected by hunger jumped in 2020 and continued to rise in 2021. It has now reached 9.8% of the world’s population, compared to 8% in 2019 and 9.3% in 2020.
According to the FAO, nearly 3.1 billion people could not afford a healthy diet in 2020, 112 million more than in 2019.
For the UN agencies, the effects of food price inflation and the economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the measures put in place to contain it, are among the elements to consider when analyzing the evolution of food security and hunger indicators in the world.
This output was a collaboration between the FAO , the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization (WHO).
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