Afghanistan Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimates from FEWS NET, 2019

Afghanistan population estimates for acute food insecurity, produced by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) for the year 2019. The dataset is available in CSV, XLSX, and JSON formats under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It was last updated on the platform in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling food insecurity prevalence based on FEWS NET's population estimates
• Assessing humanitarian aid needs based on the described acute food insecurity data
• Analyzing temporal trends in food security for the year 2019
• Integrating population-level food security metrics with other geospatial or socioeconomic data

Strengths

• Data originates from FEWS NET, a specialized and authoritative source for food security analysis
• Available in three common structured formats: CSV, XLSX, and JSON
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET

Collection Method

Likely contains population estimates derived from FEWS NET's food security analysis models.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 09:23:50.851454; freshness should be verified

Geography

Afghanistan