Hunger in the Arab region has continued to rise since 2014. The number of undernourished people reached 54.3 million in 2021, or 12.2 percent of the population. This is a consistent increase in the past two decades and is close to the peak of 2011 when the region suffered from a major shock of popular uprisings. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit the region in 2019, surged hunger across the region, affecting all countries at all income levels, conflict-affected, and non-conflict countries. Yemen, a conflict-affected, low-income country, had the highest prevalence of undernourishment (41.4 percent) in the region in 2021, followed by Comoros (the) (20.4 percent) and Jordan (16.9 percent). Ongoing conflicts in Yemen and the Syrian Arab Republic have significantly increased poverty and food insecurity.