Denmark's prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population (%) was 6.2% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 1.2 percentage points from 5% in 2019.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 6.2% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 5% | 2019 |
| Highest | 7.1% | 2022 |
| Lowest | 5% | 2019 |
| Average since 2015 | 5.98% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 5.9% | 2015 |
Over five years it is up 1.2 percentage points from 5% in 2019. Since 2015 it is up 0.3 percentage points from 5.9% in 2015.
What the numbers say
In 2024, Denmark's prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population (%) fell 0.7 percentage points on 2023 (from 6.9% to 6.2%).
Across the 8 yearly changes before that (2016 to 2023), the average change was +0.13 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.56 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 1.3 percentage points in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.7 percentage points in 2024. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.15 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 36% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2024, Denmark had the 84th highest value of the 95 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 6.2% | 2024 |
| World | 27.99% | 2024 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 10.37% | 2024 |
| High income | 7.91% | 2024 |
Closest to Denmark in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
The percentage of people in the population who live in households classified as moderately or severely food insecure. A household is classified as moderately or severely food insecure when at least one adult in the household has reported to have been exposed, at times during the year, to low quality diets and might have been forced to also reduce the quantity of food they would normally eat because of a lack of money or other resources.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a population-weighted average.
All 10 values
| Year | Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population (%) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 7.1 |
| 2021 | 6.8 |
| 2020 | 5.5 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5.2 |
| 2017 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 5.9 |
Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population (%) in nearby economies
- Albania — 31.8% (2024)
- Austria — 4.4% (2024)
- Azerbaijan — 14.6% (2024)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 8.7% (2024)
- Bulgaria — 10.5% (2024)
- Croatia — 4.9% (2024)
- Czechia — 9.1% (2024)
- Estonia — 13.1% (2024)
- Finland
More health data for Denmark
- Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 4.91% (2025)
- Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 5.24% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female — 455,208 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 15.06% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male — 479,938 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 16.07% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total — 935,146 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 15.56% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population) — 5.11% (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Denmark's prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population (%)?
- 6.2% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2015?
- It is up 0.3 percentage points from 5.9% in 2015. The highest value was 7.1% in 2022 and the lowest 5% in 2019.
- How does Denmark rank?
- 84th highest of 95 economies with data for 2024.
- Is the latest change in prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population (%) unusual for Denmark?
- In 2024, Denmark's prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population (%) fell 0.7 percentage points on 2023 (from 6.9% to 6.2%). Across the 8 yearly changes before that (2016 to 2023), the average change was +0.13 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.56 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SN.ITK.MSFI.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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