Uganda Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimates from FEWS NET, 2019

FEWS NET's 2019 estimates for the population in Uganda facing acute food insecurity. The data is provided in multiple formats including CSV, XLSX, and JSON. It was last updated on the HDX platform in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling acute food insecurity trends in Uganda based on the 2019 estimates.
• Assessing the scale of humanitarian need in Uganda based on population estimates.
• Integrating food security data into regional risk analysis based on the FEWS NET source.

Strengths

• Data originates from FEWS NET, a specialized food security monitoring organization.
• Available in three common data formats (CSV, XLSX, JSON) for flexibility.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET

Collection Method

Likely contains modeled or survey-based estimates of acute food insecurity.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 09:49:08.538643; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Uganda