About Nutrition Informatics
In 2024, 8.2 percent i.e. nearly 673 million people faced hunger globally.
1 in every 11 people in the world is hungry.
An estimated 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2024.
Healthy diets are out of reach for 2.60 billion people.
1 in 8 people is living with obesity.
Last updated: June 17, 2026
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- World Health Organization. (n.d.-a). Global hunger declines, but rises in Africa and Western Asia: UN report. World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/news/item/28-07-2025-global-hunger-declines-but-rises-in-africa-and-western-asia-un-report
- FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. 2025. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 – Addressing high food price inflation for food security and nutrition. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd6008en
- World Health Organization. (n.d.-c). Obesity and overweight. World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight
- United Nations Children’s Fund. (2026, March 18). Progress in reducing child deaths slows as 4.9 million children under five die in 2024. UNICEF. Retrieved June 16, 2026, from UNICEF Press Release
Addressing the double burden of malnutrition key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (in particular Goal 2 and Target 3.4) and the Commitments of the Rome Declaration on Nutrition, within the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition.
Nutrition Informatics (NI) describes intersection of nutrition, information, and technology, and it underlies all areas of dietetics practice.
Focus on development of standards, processes, and technologies for providing nutrition care.
Inform data driven, evidence based, human centered design, development, implementation and evaluation of nutrition informatics interventions, programs and policies to enhance good health and well-being of individuals, their families and the communities they live in.
SMAART Hub for Informatics enabled Nutrition Education (SHINE) to become a global platform for the field of Nutrition Informatics Research, Innovation, Policy, Practice and Entrepreneurship.