Kenya Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimates by FEWS NET, 2019

2019 estimates of the acutely food insecure population in Kenya, produced by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). The data is available in multiple structured formats including CSV, XLSX, and JSON, and is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling food insecurity prevalence based on FEWS NET's population estimates.
• Tracking changes in acute food insecurity over the 2019 period.
• Integrating food security indicators with other socioeconomic data for Kenya.
• Creating dashboards for humanitarian monitoring based on the structured estimates.

Strengths

• Data is provided in three structured formats (CSV, XLSX, JSON) for flexibility.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.
• Produced by FEWS NET, a specialized and authoritative source for food security analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

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 09:44:20.008951; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kenya