Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Most Likely FEWS NET Acutely Food Insecure Populatio

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

Use Cases

• Modeling food insecurity prevalence based on FEWS NET's 'most likely' estimates.
• Assessing regional vulnerability for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Integrating food security metrics into humanitarian needs assessments.
• Tracking changes in acute food insecurity over time for the year 2019.

Strengths

• Data originates from FEWS NET, a specialized food security monitoring organization.
• Available in three structured formats (CSV, XLSX, JSON) for flexible access.
• Released under the 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 estimates based on FEWS NET's food security analysis framework.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 09:06:08.348654; freshness should be verified.

Geography

The Democratic Republic of the Congo