근본적이고 지속적인 변화를 위한 사업을 진행합니다.
세이브더칠드런이 세계 식량의 날(World Food Day)을 맞아 세계 기아상황을 감시하는 IPC(통합 식량안보단계분류)를 분석해 발표한 자료에 따르면,
2025년 현재 전 세계 약 1억 1,800만 명의 어린이가 기아에 처해 있으며, 이 중 절반이 넘는 약 6,300만 명은 분쟁으로 인한 피해자인 것으로 나타났다.
특히 수단과 가자지구에서는 분쟁과 인도적 지원 차단으로 기근이 발생해 수백만 명의 아동이 생존 위기에 놓였다.
가자 50만 명, 수단 63만 8천 명이 ‘재앙적 기아(IPC 5단계)’ 상태이며, 그 중 절반 이상이 어린이다.
세이브더칠드런은 기근이 인간이 만든 비극이라며, 분쟁 종식과 영양 지원 확대의 시급성을 강조했다.
Of the around 118 million children plunged into hunger so far in 2025, around 63 million – over half were forced into this situation by conflict as opposed to drought or environmental or economic pressures, according to a new data analysis by Save the Children on World Food Day. [1]
Save the Children analysed data from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the world’s leading authority on hunger monitoring, and found that conflict was a driving cause for the more severe forms of hunger in children in 2025. Of the 18 million children pushed into emergency levels of hunger in over 35 crises (IPC level 4+), 11 million, or over six in ten (61%), were in countries where conflict is the main driver of hunger, highlighting the role of violence and war in the world’s worst food crises. [2]
While not all countries are analysed by the IPC or included in its Global Report on Food Crises, the data covers most of the world’s worst food crises.
Globally, one in six children live in an area affected by conflict – compared to around 10% a decade ago. [3] Conflict remains the main driver of hunger worldwide and has a devastating impact on people’s ability to grow or buy food, forces families from their homes and destroys farmland and infrastructure. In some of the worst cases, starvation is used as a method of warfare.
In Sudan and Gaza, conflict - coupled with severely restricted access and denials of aid - triggered famine classifications in 2024 and 2025 respectively, forcing children into the most extreme forms of hunger. Over half a million people in Gaza, and 638,000 people in Sudan - half of which are children in both places - face catastrophic hunger and a heightened risk of death, while around half a million more children in Gaza and 3.8 million in Sudan were found to be just one step away from catastrophe in IPC4. [4]
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