Cameroon Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimates from FEWS NET, 2019

2019 estimates of the acutely food insecure population in Cameroon, produced by FEWS NET. The data is available in multiple formats including CSV, XLSX, and JSON. It was last updated on the platform in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling acute food insecurity risk based on FEWS NET's population estimates.
• Tracking changes in food security vulnerability over time for Cameroon.
• Informing humanitarian resource allocation based on estimated population needs.

Strengths

• Data is produced by FEWS NET, a specialized organization in food security analysis.
• Available in three common formats: CSV, XLSX, and JSON.
• Published under the 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 modeled estimates of acutely food insecure populations.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 09:24:06.813241; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Cameroon