FEWS NET: Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimates for Nigeria, 2019

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

Use Cases

• Modeling the spatial distribution of food insecurity based on the population estimates.
• Analyzing trends in acute food insecurity over the 2019 time period.
• Integrating food security metrics with other socioeconomic or climate data for Nigeria.
• Creating visualizations or dashboards to communicate food security risk levels.

Strengths

• Data is provided in three common, machine-readable formats: XLSX, JSON, and CSV.
• The dataset has a clear, permissive license (CC-BY-4.0) for reuse.
• The source organization, FEWS NET, is a specialized authority on food security early warning.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• 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 estimates based on FEWS NET's integrated food security analysis.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-24 10:07:57.666573; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nigeria