People in Phase 3 food insecurity
or above
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Report generated on: December 11, 2025
Project type: timeseries
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Metadata information
Information on metadata
Document title
Metadata for People in Phase 3 food insecurity or above
Document ID
META_IPC_IPC_P3PLUS
Metadata producers
Name
Abbreviation
Affiliation
Development Economics Data Group
DECDG
World Bank
Production date
2024-08-22
Version
1.1
Version notes
Updated title formatting for consistency.
Version date
2025-03-17
Indicator description
Title statement
Indicator code
IPC_IPC_P3PLUS
Indicator name
People in Phase 3 food insecurity or above
Database ID
IPC_IPC
Language
Name
Code
English
EN
Version date
2025-12-11
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Description
Definition
Number of people in Phase 3 (Crisis) or worse (Emergency or Catastrophe/Famine) on the Integrated Food
Security Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Food Insecurity Scale (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above).
Measurement unit
Persons, Percentage
Dimensions
Label
Description
Geographic area
Country/economy, Region
Analysis Period Classification
Year
Periodicity
Monthly
Topics
ID
Label
Parent ID
Vocabulary
P1
Planet
P1_000001
Agriculture and Food
P1
Data360 Topic L1
P1_000013
Healthy Sustainable Diets
P1_000001
Data360 Topic L2
WB Practice Groups
Concepts and methods
Methodology
The methodology is described in the resource available at
https://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/manual/IPC_Technical_Manual_3_Final.pdf. The same
link is provided under methodology references.
Methodology references
Source URL
IPC
https://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/manual/IPC_Technical_Manual_3_Final.pdf
Aggregation method
The region and income aggregates are calculated as the sum. World aggregation is based on sum of the
overall sample countries.
Geographic and time coverage
Time coverage
Start
End
2017-01
2025-09
3
Economies
Name
Code
Burundi
BDI
Central African Republic
CAF
Guatemala
GTM
Haiti
HTI
Eswatini
SWZ
Madagascar
MDG
Lesotho
LSO
Malawi
MWI
Afghanistan
AFG
Tanzania
TZA
Pakistan
PAK
Uganda
UGA
South Sudan
SSD
El Salvador
SLV
Mozambique
MOZ
Congo, Dem. Rep.
COD
Federal Republic of Somalia
SOM
Zambia
ZMB
Yemen, Rep.
YEM
Honduras
HND
Zimbabwe
ZWE
Kenya
KEN
Ethiopia
ETH
Angola
AGO
Namibia
NAM
Sudan
SDN
Benin
BEN
Burkina Faso
BFA
Chad
TCD
Gambia, The
GMB
Guinea
GIN
Guinea-Bissau
GNB
Côte d’Ivoire
CIV
Liberia
LBR
Mali
MLI
Nigeria
NGA
Senegal
SEN
Sierra Leone
SLE
Togo
TGO
Cameroon
CMR
4
Ghana
GHA
Niger
NER
Mauritania
MRT
Djibouti
DJI
South Africa
ZAF
Cabo Verde
CPV
Lebanon
LBN
Dominican Republic
DOM
Timor-Leste
TLS
Bangladesh
BGD
West Bank and Gaza
PSE
Ecuador
ECU
Access and use
License
Name
URL
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/
Confidentiality status
PU
Sources and citation
Sources of data
Sources of data
Title
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
Author (Organization)
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)
Electronic location or identifier
https://www.ipcinfo.org
Tags
Tags
Tag
Tag group
P1
feature-theme-profile
P1_000001
feature-topic-profile
Line Chart
feature-theme-profile-chart
Line Chart
feature-topic-profile-chart
IPC_IPC
feature-dataset-profile
5
Line Chart
feature-dataset-profile-chart
P1
benchmark-country-profile-pillar
P1
feature-country-profile-pillar
Additional Fields
Visualization
Remove chart types
Chart type
pie
stackedBar
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