Daris Javier Cuevas

Professor, School of Economics, Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD)

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Dominican Republic exits FAO hunger map after two decades of declining hunger

Public counterpoint to celebratory readings of the hunger-map exit

Hunger in the Dominican Republic has fallen so far that the country has officially left the United Nations' hunger map. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) confirmed that undernourishment dropped from 21.3 percent of the population in 2006 to below 2.5 percent in 2025 — the threshold for being declared free of chronic hunger.

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