The Acute Food Insecurity Population Estimates domain provides Food Insecure Population Estimates (FIPE) for specified geographic locations. It is used to identify famine and determine the severity of food insecurity and nutrition crises. This data is compatible with the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) system.

The Acute Food Insecurity Population Estimates domain is broken into two sections:

1. Filter Data

The Acute Food Insecurity Population Estimates domain includes the following options for filtering data:

• Start date and End date: Filters data series by the period dates of all data points within the series. All data series with at least one data point that has a period date inside the date range will be displayed.

• Geographic area: Filters by location of the FIPE data. This filter aggregates items into a multi-level lists (e.g., admin 1 units are aggregated into countries, which are aggregated into regions). Selecting the higher-level item in the list will automatically select all the lower-level items in the list.
  Note: The International category in this filter contains countries not currently monitored by FEWS NET.

• Data Source Document: Filters by the name of the document used as the primary source of information or data.

  • The Annual Peak Food Assistance Needs includes projections in each monitored Country for the total population that would likely face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse acute food insecurity in the absence of any emergency food assistance, during its projected period of highest need, which typically occurs during a country's lean season.

  • The Food Assistance Outlook Brief summarizes FEWS NET's projection of the population in need of urgent food assistance and the severity of anticipated acute food insecurity (the highest IPC area-level classification) in each FEWS NET-monitored country seven months into the future.

• Scenario: There are two scenario options available:

  • Best Available: Shows the current situation for all periods. Only the most recent near and medium term projections will be included.

  • All: Shows all scenarios for all periods, including near and medium term projections from past periods.

2. Data visualization and export

Visualize

The Acute Food Insecurity Population Estimates domain currently includes a Table visualization. The Metadata tab contains descriptions and definitions of the metadata included in the visualizations and export data.

Customize Export

The Acute Food Insecurity Population Estimates domain includes the following options:

• File format: Choose from one of the available file formats. This will apply to both downloads and refreshable links.

• Download as: Provides a download of a static dataset. This will export only the data series that you have selected.

• Copy link: Copies a refreshable link that connects directly to the FEWS NET Data Warehouse database server, allowing Excel, your browser, or another application to automatically fetch data from the server whenever the link is accessed.