Mauritania Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimates from FEWS NET, 2020

Acutely food insecure population estimates for Mauritania in 2020, produced by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). The dataset is available in CSV, XLSX, and JSON formats and was last updated on March 26, 2026. It is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Use Cases

• Assessing the scale of acute food insecurity in Mauritania based on population estimates.
• Modeling food security risk factors based on the reported situation data.
• Tracking changes in food insecurity over time based on the 2020 reference point.
• Informing humanitarian aid targeting and resource allocation based on estimated need.

Strengths

• Produced by FEWS NET, a specialized and authoritative source for food security analysis.
• Available in three common, machine-readable formats: CSV, XLSX, and JSON.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the source and the single year of coverage.

Provenance

Source

Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET).

Collection Method

Likely contains estimates derived from field assessments, market analysis, and remote sensing.

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 10:11:26.617293; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mauritania