El Salvador Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimates from FEWS NET, 2019

FEWS NET estimates for the acutely food insecure population in El Salvador for the year 2019. The data is provided in multiple formats, including CSV, JSON, and XLSX, and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0. The dataset was last updated on the platform in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Assessing the scale of acute food insecurity in El Salvador based on the population estimates.
• Tracking changes in food security over time based on the 2019 reference point.
• Informing humanitarian aid targeting and resource allocation based on estimated need.
• Integrating national-level food security metrics into regional or global analyses.

Strengths

• Data originates from FEWS NET, a specialized and authoritative source for food security analysis.
• Available in three common, machine-readable formats (CSV, JSON, XLSX) for flexibility.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse and redistribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
• 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 modeled or survey-based estimates of acute food insecurity.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-24 10:44:45.600763; freshness should be verified.

Geography

El Salvador