Burkina Faso Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimates from FEWS NET, 2019

2019 data from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) estimating the population in Burkina Faso facing acute food insecurity. The dataset likely contains estimates of the number and proportion of people classified as acutely food insecure. It is available in CSV, XLSX, and JSON formats under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling food insecurity risk based on population estimates mentioned in the description
• Tracking changes in acute food insecurity over time based on the 2019 temporal coverage
• Supporting humanitarian resource allocation based on geographic and population-level data
• Benchmarking food security indicators for Burkina Faso against other regional datasets

Strengths

• Data is provided by FEWS NET, a specialized and authoritative source for food security analysis.
• Available in three common structured formats (CSV, XLSX, JSON) for flexibility.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network)

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026 03 26 09:44:20.351899; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Burkina Faso