The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched its next-generation digital platform, HungerMap Live. This integrates real-time food security data and predictive modelling to combat hunger across more than 50 countries.
Global hunger crisis deepens as WFP’s HungerMap platform offers real-time early warning
The platform arrives as global malnutrition worsens. The number of people facing IPC5 food insecurity has surged 15-fold, from 85,000 in 2019 to 1.4 million in 2025.
HungerMap Live provides the most complete and up-to-date picture of hunger in the world’s most vulnerable nations. This is a critical development at a time of rising food needs and shrinking humanitarian funding.
The platform offers AI-assisted forecasting for WFP’s designated Hunger Hotspots. These are 16 countries where populations already struggle with catastrophic hunger.
🆕 WFP has launched a next‑generation intelligence platform that transforms global hunger data into early action.
HungerMap Live integrates food security data and analysis with AI‑assisted forecasting to spot crises before they spiral.
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Studies show that early warning of emerging food crises yields tremendous cost savings. WFP has witnessed first-hand that every dollar invested in its anticipatory action programmes saves a minimum of seven dollars.
Funding cuts shrink WFP data footprint by 25%, threatening life-saving hunger forecasts
The new platform aggregates data from WFP’s network of more than 300 food security analysts and dozens of trusted partners. This includes the global IPC benchmark, government-validated statistics, and climate, market, agricultural, and economic data.
“This platform changes that, combining WFP’s on the ground insights with critical data to give decision-makers, communities, humanitarian agencies and donors the power to act before hunger costs lives. We are able to track and predict where, how and why hunger is growing,” said WFP former Executive Director Cindy McCain.
A specialised layer on micronutrient intake adequacy developed with support from the Gates Foundation. This helps identify populations at risk of hidden hunger caused by inadequate intake of essential vitamins and minerals.
However, funding for global food security monitoring has declined alarmingly. WFP’s data footprint shrank by 25 percent in the past year.
Meanwhile, the WFP has recently announced that it is rapidly scaling up emergency food assistance across Lebanon. This is necessary as escalating Israeli military strikes push the country deeper into a food security crisis.