Food Prices for Nutrition

Food Prices for Nutrition provides indicators on the cost and affordability of healthy diets in each country, showing the population’s physical and economic access to sufficient quantities of locally available items for an active and healthy life. It also provides indicators on the cost and affordability of an energy-sufficient diet and of a nutrient-adequate diet. These indicators are explained in detail in the associated Food Prices for Nutrition DataHub here: https://www.worldbank.org/foodpricesfornutrition. The database version Food Prices for Nutrition 1.0 houses indicators estimated in July 2022, when relevant affordability indicators were calculated based on the available Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) data from the World Bank expressed in 2011 purchasing power parity terms (PPP). These include indicators measuring the affordability of each diet as a ratio of the cost of the diet to the food poverty line and indicators measuring the share and volume of the population unable to afford each diet based on income distributions observed in each country. Note that the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet indicators reported in the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 correspond to those in version 1.0. The database version Food Prices for Nutrition 1.1 updates these aforementioned affordability indicators using the latest PIP data expressed in 2017 PPP-based dollars. For more details about the PIP update, please visit: https://pip.worldbank.org/about.

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Source https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0061222
Last Updated July 7, 2023, 22:07 (UTC)
Created July 7, 2023, 22:07 (UTC)