Ethiopia Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimates from FEWS NET, 2019

Ethiopia's population estimates for acute food insecurity, produced by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) for the year 2019. The dataset is available in CSV, JSON, and XLSX formats and was last updated on the HDX platform in March 2026. It is published under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling food insecurity trends based on FEWS NET's population estimates.
• Assessing humanitarian needs for resource allocation based on the 2019 estimates.
• Integrating food security indicators into broader socioeconomic analyses for Ethiopia.

Strengths

• Data is provided in three common formats (CSV, JSON, XLSX) for flexibility.
• Has a clear, permissive license (CC-BY-4.0).
• Produced by a recognized authority (FEWS NET) on food security.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network)

Collection Method

Likely contains population estimates derived from food security assessments.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-24 10:44:45.258308; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ethiopia