SDG 2

Zero Hunger

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End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition.

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Ireland: Major challenges remain· Stagnating

Official figures from the Sustainable Development Report 2026 (Sachs, Lafortune, Fuller, Iablonovski — SDSN), shown as published — only the layout is ours. The report is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by SDSN. Imported from their published database on 2026-09-29.

What makes up this score

The real, underlying figures 🇮🇪 Ireland's SDSN score for this goal is built from — not the 0-100 score itself, the actual measurements behind it.

Prevalence of undernourishment (%): 2.5
Prevalence of stunting in children under 5 years of age (%): 2.2
Prevalence of wasting in children under 5 years of age (%): 0.4
Minimum dietary diversity among children aged 6-23 months (%): 90
Prevalence of obesity, BMI ≥ 30 (% of adult population): 28.4
Human Trophic Level (best 2-3 worst): 2.5
Cereal yield (tonnes per hectare of harvested land): 7
Progress towards productive and sustainable agriculture (worst 1-5 best): 3.1
Yield gap closure (% of potential yield): 74.5
Exports of hazardous pesticides (tonnes per million population): 6.1

What this goal covers

•End hunger and guarantee safe, nutritious food for everyone, year-round
•End all forms of malnutrition, including childhood stunting and wasting
•Double the productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers

Simplified from the UN's official targets for this goal.

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Goal 2 score, by country

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Ireland Other countries

1Luxembourg

95.7/100

2Switzerland

94.7/100

3United Kingdom

90.3/100

4Czechia

90.3/100

5United Arab Emirates

90.3/100

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12Ireland

83.9/100

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173Madagascar

24.4/100

174Yemen, Rep.

20.7/100

175Congo, Dem. Rep.

18.8/100

176Papua New Guinea

9.1/100

177Syrian Arab Republic

9/100

Ireland is in rank group 12 of 177 (out of 177 countries with a score for this goal).

What makes up Ireland's score (84 out of 100)

The average of 7 indicator scores, one per official target area. Each bar scores Ireland from 0 to 100 on that indicator: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0.

2.1 Ending hunger · Prevalence of undernourishment2.5% (2023)
100
2.1 Food access · Moderate or severe food insecurity4.8% (2023)
100
2.2 Child malnutrition · Stunting in children under 52.2% (2011)
100
2.2 Child malnutrition · Wasting in children under 50.4% (2011)
100
2.3 Farm productivity · Farm output per worker (agriculture value added per worker)45,252 US$ (2025)
82
2.a Investment in agriculture · Agriculture orientation index for government spending1 (2024)
79
2.2 Child malnutrition · Overweight in children under 510.5% (2011)
26

Simplified score, may contain errors. See how it's built

Chart data: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0) and the UN SDG Global Database (UNdata terms). Each goal score (0–100, 100 = best) averages a country's scores on several official indicators, one per main target area of the goal (7 for this goal). Each indicator is scored against a range set by the data: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0. Latest value per country since 2010; fetched 2026-09-22. The scores are calculated by this site; the underlying values are the sources', unchanged. How the scores are built →

Prevalence of undernourishment (WB SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS; 2.1 Ending hunger)
Moderate or severe food insecurity (WB SN.ITK.MSFI.ZS; 2.1 Food access)
Stunting in children under 5 (WB SH.STA.STNT.ZS; 2.2 Child malnutrition)
Wasting in children under 5 (WB SH.STA.WAST.ZS; 2.2 Child malnutrition)
Overweight in children under 5 (WB SH.STA.OWGH.ZS; 2.2 Child malnutrition)
Farm output per worker (agriculture value added per worker) (WB NV.AGR.EMPL.KD; 2.3 Farm productivity)
Agriculture orientation index for government spending (UN AG_PRD_ORTIND; 2.a Investment in agriculture)

County-level data isn't published for this goal yet — Ireland's CSO currently only breaks a handful of SDG indicators down by county.

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