Nearly one-third of Sri Lanka’s population was acutely food-insecure in 2022, the latest report of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) stated.
According to the WFP’s report, 6.3 million people in Sri Lanka were acutely food-insecure in 2022 due to a severe shortage of food, fuel, and other essentials.
In 2022, Sri Lanka faced the worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948.
A range of factors, such as consecutive years of drought, depleted foreign reserves, political turbulence, high inflation, and increased public debt had a devastating impact on the country’s economy.
This led to a severe shortage of food, fuel, and other essentials, resulting in 6.3 million people in Sri Lanka being acutely food-insecure in 2022 – that’s nearly one-third of the population, WFP reported.
The WFP report further stated that this marked a dramatic reversal for a country in which food insecurity was at 10 per cent in 2019.
Full report: https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000148326/download/?_ga=2.211225429.196805118.1683576069-716155901.1654095281 (NewsWire)