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Between 20 and 22 million people (18% of the population) are estimated to be food insecure in Ethiopia in 2024. About 80% (15.8 million) of these are considered acutely food insecure and the remaining 20% are chronically food insecure. The HRP is targeting 10.4 million of this population for emergency food assistance.
The acutely food insecure population (15.8 million) includes about 4 million IDPs, and 87% of them are domiciled in Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, and Somali Region. This does not include the refugee numbers.
Ethiopia is home to 1,051,022 refugees and asylum seekers (as of April 2024). Over 90% of these are from South Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea.
Ethiopia’s population of refugees and asylum seekers increased steadily from about 736,000 people in 2019. The number of refugees from Sudan increased from 56,106 in February to 92,435 in April 2024. WFP monitoring in April 2024 shows that 45% of refugee households had inadequate food consumption and 66% were practising emergency and crisis coping strategies.
WFP monitoring of its relief assistance beneficiaries shows improving but still precarious household food security outcomes among beneficiary households in the Afar and Amhara regions (Figure 2). However, mixed food security outcomes were observed among beneficiary households in the Tigray region, while worsening food security outcomes were recorded in the Somali region.