Guinea HungerMap: Near Real-Time Food Security and Nutrition Indicators

WFP's HungerMapLIVE provides near real-time food security indicators for Guinea, integrating metrics on nutrition, conflict, and macro-economics. This CSV dataset, updated as recently as March 2026, serves as a monitoring tool for humanitarian decision-making. It aggregates data from the World Food Programme's global hunger monitoring system to assess the magnitude and severity of food insecurity.

Use Cases

• Correlating conflict incidents with food security levels in Guinea
• Predicting hunger severity using macro-economic and weather indicators
• Spatial analysis of nutrition trends to inform humanitarian resource allocation

Strengths

• Integrates data from multiple domains including weather, conflict, and macro-economics
• Official humanitarian data from the World Food Programme
• Near real-time monitoring capability for 94 countries including Guinea

Limitations

• Lack of explicit column metadata in the source description
• Potential for reporting lags in secondary data sources like conflict or nutrition surveys

Provenance

Source

World Food Programme (WFP) HungerMapLIVE

Collection Method

Aggregated from various primary and secondary sources including surveys, sensors, and economic reports

Time Range

Up to March 2026

Freshness

Near real-time; last updated March 2026.

Geography

Guinea