AFRICA Regional overview of food security and nutrition 2021: Statistics and trends

FAO uses the M49 country and regional groupings, available at https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49.

In this report, Central Africa refers to the M49 Middle Africa grouping.

The groupings are:

• - Central Africa: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe;
• - Eastern Africa: Burundi, the Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe;
• - Northern Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, the Sudan, Tunisia;
• - Southern Africa: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa; and
• - Western Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, the Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.