Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acutely Food Insecure Pop

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the geographic focus of this dataset. It contains estimates of the acutely food insecure population, produced by FEWS NET. The data covers the year 2019 and was last updated on the platform in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling food insecurity trends based on population estimates for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Assessing humanitarian aid needs based on the scale of the acutely food insecure population.
• Integrating food security indicators into regional risk analysis based on FEWS NET data.
• Creating visualizations of food insecurity prevalence for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Strengths

• Data is produced by FEWS NET, a specialized organization for food security analysis.
• Available in multiple formats (CSV, XLSX, JSON) for flexibility.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count and specific column definitions are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• The temporal coverage is limited to a single year (2019).

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET

Collection Method

Likely contains modeled or survey-based population estimates for acute food insecurity.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 10:11:28.606383; freshness should be verified.

Geography

The Democratic Republic of the Congo