Wide differences persist among regions
Progress towards improved food security continues to be uneven across regions. Some regions have made remarkably rapid progress in reducing hunger, notably the Caucasus and Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Latin America and Northern Africa. Others, including the Caribbean, Oceania and Western Asia, have also reduced their PoU, but at a slower pace. Progress has also been uneven within these regions, leaving significant pockets of food insecurity in a number of countries. In two regions, Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, progress has been slow overall. While some countries report successes in reducing hunger, undernourishment and other forms of malnutrition remain at overall high levels in these regions. The different rates of progress across regions have brought about changes in the regional distribution of hunger since the early 1990s (Figure 2). Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa now account for substantially larger shares of global undernourishment.7 The shares for Oceania and Western Asia also rose, albeit by much smaller margins and from relatively low levels. In tandem, faster-than-average progress in Eastern Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean means that these regions now account for much smaller shares of global undernourishment