A new report titled ‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026’ shows that global hunger has declined for a third consecutive year in 2025. The report, released this week, is authored by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the UN World Food Programme and the World Health Organisation. The report estimates that 7.8% of the global population faced hunger in 2025, down from 8.1% in 2024. The report further estimates that 25.8% of the global population, around 2.1 billion people, experienced moderate or severe food insecurity. The UN warned that despite reported progress, improvement remains fragile, unevenly distributed and insufficient to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.