Amid rising acute hunger and malnutrition worldwide in 2025, US-based NGO Vitamin Angels highlights the distinction between hunger and hidden hunger — a form of malnutrition in which people have enough calories to survive but not enough essential vitamins and nutrients. The organization points to the FAO’s most recent report on food insecurity and malnutrition, “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024,” which estimates that over “one-third of people in the world — about 2.8 billion — could not afford a healthy diet in 2022.” Although these levels are decreasing, the FAO cautions that progress is uneven across regions.
