Food Systems Dashboard

Food Systems Countdown Initiative Data

The Countdown is a collaborative effort to monitor global food systems. It brings together indicators that span food systems and provides annual analysis to inform policy, business, and NGO priorities and actions. It supports the transformation of food systems, so they become equitable, sustainable, and resilient and positively contribute to achieving the 2030 SDGs and other global goals.

Countdown Indicators

Diets, Nutrition, and Health

Cost of a healthy diet

Percent of the population who cannot afford a healthy diet

Availability of fruits

Availability of vegetables

Percent of the population using safely managed drinking water services (SDG 6.1.1)

Retail value (total sales) of ultra-processed foods per capita

MDD-W: Minimum dietary diversity for women (SDG 2.2.4)

All-5: Consumption of all five food groups

Adults: Zero fruit or vegetable consumption

Adults: Soft drink consumption

Prevalence of undernourishment (SDG 2.1.1)

Percent population experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity (SDG 2.1.2)

MDD (IYCF): Minimum dietary diversity for infants and young children

Children (6-23 months): Zero fruit or vegetable consumption

Environment, Natural Resources, and Production

Cropland nitrogen use efficiency

Vegetable yield

Cow's milk yield

Fishery health index progress score

Agri-food systems greenhouse gas emissions

Greenhouse gas emissions intensity for cereals (excluding rice)

Greenhouse gas emissions intensity for rice

Greenhouse gas emissions intensity for cow's milk

Greenhouse gas emissions intensity for beef

Cropland area change

Functional integrity: Agricultural land with minimum level of natural habitat

Agriculture water withdrawal as percent of total renewable water resources

Pesticide use per area of cropland

Livelihoods, Poverty, and Equity

Share of agriculture in GDP (SDG 2.a.1)

Unemployment rate

Underemployment rate

Social protection coverage

Social protection adequacy

Percent of children 5-17 years engaged in child labor

Share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land (SDG 5.a.1)

Governance

Civil society participation index

Percent of the urban population living in cities signed onto the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact

Degree of legal recognition of the right to food

Presence of a national food system transformation pathway

Government effectiveness index

Food safety capacity

Presence of national health-related food environment policies

V-Dem accountability index

Open budget index score

Guarantees for public access to information (SDG 16.10.2)

Resilience

Ratio of total damages from all disasters to GDP

Dietary sourcing flexibility index

Mobile cellular subscriptions

Social capital index

Proportion of agricultural land with minimum level of species diversity (crop and pasture)

Number of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium- or long-term conservation facilities (SDG 2.5.1a)

Number of animal genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium- or long-term conservation facilities (SDG 2.5.1b)

Prevalence of severe coping strategies

Food price volatility

Food supply variability

All Country Data

Countdown Country & Territory Profiles

Central Asia

Central Asia

Eastern Asia

Eastern Asia

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Republic of Korea

Latin America & Caribbean

Northern Africa & Western Asia

Northern Africa & Western Asia

Syrian Arab Republic

United Arab Emirates

Northern America & Europe

Oceania

Oceania

Marshall Islands

Micronesia (Federated States of)

Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

South-eastern Asia

South-eastern Asia

Brunei Darussalam

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Southern Asia

Southern Asia

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Sub-Saharan Africa