10 Indonesian Provinces with the Highest Levels of Food Consumption Inadequacy

The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded the prevalence of undernourishment (PoU) in Papua at 37.37% in 2021.

The PoU in Indonesia's easternmost province increased by 5.88 percentage points from the previous year's 31.49%. This PoU is the highest compared to the prevalence of food consumption in other provinces.

The next highest province in terms of prevalence of inadequate food consumption is Maluku, at 29.62%, followed by North Maluku at 28.86%, West Papua at 24.59%, West Kalimantan at 19.6%, and Gorontalo at 14.84%.

North Kalimantan also had a PoU of 12.75%, East Kalimantan 12.56%, Central Java 12.34%, and East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) 11.84%.

For information, the national prevalence of inadequate food consumption increased by 0.15 percentage points to 8.49% in 2021 from 8.34% in the previous year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The prevalence of inadequate food consumption is an estimate of the proportion of a given population whose usual daily energy intake from food is insufficient to meet the energy requirements for a normal, active, and healthy life, expressed as a percentage.