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supply in very limited countries such as Kuwait, Maldives, and Turkey. Nonetheless, in most of
the African Group countries only half of required amount of protein has been supplied.
Furthermore, number of people at risk of undernourishment is a broad indicator.
According to FAO definition, undernourishment means that a person is not able to acquire
enough food to meet the daily minimum dietary energy requirements, over a period of one
year. Therefore, under the availability dimension of food security, it is better to analyze the
undernourishment in the OIC Member Countries. For this purpose, the number of
undernourished people in the OIC is calculated by applying the estimated prevalence of
undernourishment to total population.
Figure 31. Undernourished People in the OIC and its Share in the World
Source: Calculated by using FAOSTAT
Note: Due to data availability, 25/57 OIC member countries are included.
Figure 31 displays that as of 2014-2016, 168.6 million people are expected to be
undernourished in the OIC Member Countries which accounts for the 21.2 percent of
undernourished people in the world. In the last 25 years, while the number of undernourished
people in the world has fallen gradually, it remains almost the same in the OIC Member
Countries. Therefore, the share of OIC undernourished people in the world has risen from 16.6
percent in 1990-1992 to 21.2 percent 2014-2016. This can be explained by the impact of the
surge in food insecurity, particularly after the food crisis in 2006-2008 that brought forth
serious socioeconomic challenges both for households and policy makers in the developing
regions of Asia & Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America & Caribbean where the
majority of the OIC Member Countries are located. 20
20 SESRIC, 2015
16,6
18,4
19,4
19,3
20,3
21,2
0
5
10
15
20
25
0
200
400
600
800
1.000
1.200
1990-92 1995-97 2000-02 2005-07 2010-12 2014-16
Percent Million People
OIC Total Number of Undernourished People World Total Number of Undernourished People
OIC Undernourished People Share in the World