Cities & food security - Africa
We have compared a total of 850 cities all over the world on a number of food-related indicators like availability, food risks and healthy lifestyle. In this list you will find the top 25 largest cities (expected in 2030) in Africa in alphabetical order.
Find the city you want more information about and get an overall impression. We tell you if the overall ranking was:
- Very low
- Rather low
- Low
- Below average
- Average
- Above average
- High
- Rather high
- Very high
Furthermore we will indicate which 5 indicators had a more than average positive (+) or negative (-) effect on the ranking. (o is neutral)
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Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Very low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | o |
| Accessibility | o |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- proximity stores
Indicators with a negative effect:
- fresh food production
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- arable land
- stability country
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- Gini-index
- prosperous (economic activity)
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from vegetable/fruit/nuts
- sanitation and hygiene
- climate
- population increase
- risk from flood
Abuja (Nigeria)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Low |
| Availability | + |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | o |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- arable land
- fresh food production
- remaining agriland
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- green living environment around the city
Indicators with a negative effect:
- infrastructure
- stability country
- ease of doing business
- proximity stores
- Gini-index
- GDP
- GDP development
- prosperous (economic activity)
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
- population increase
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Very low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- GDP development
- climate
- climate risk
Indicators with a negative effect:
- fresh food production
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- infrastructure
- stability country
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- prosperous (economic activity)
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- BMI (health)
- BMI (food risk)
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- kcal intake (total)
- sanitation and hygiene
Al-Iskandariyah / Alexandria (Egypt)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Rather low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | o |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | o |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- Gini-index
- infrastructure
- proximity stores
Indicators with a negative effect:
- stability country
- ease of doing business
- BMI (health)
- green living environment around city
- climate
- risk from flood
Al-Khartum / Khartoum (Sudan)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Below average |
| Availability | o |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | + |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- remaining agriland
- Gini-index
- BMI (health)
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arable land
- stability country
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- GDP development
- prosperous (economic activity)
- diversity diet
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
- climate
- kcal intake (total)
Al-Qahirah / Cairo (Egypt)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | o |
| Affordability | o |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- proximity stores
- Gini-index
- BMI (food risk)
Indicators with a negative effect:
- fresh food production
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- arable land
- stability country
- ease of doing business
- BMI (health)
- green living environment around city
- climate
- climate risk
Antananarivo (Madagascar)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Very low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- green living environment around the city
- climate
- climate risk
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arable land
- BMI (health)
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- fresh food production
- GDP
- GDP development
- Gini-index
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
- kcal intake (total)
Bamako (Mali)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Low |
| Availability | o |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | o |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- remaining agriland
- Gini-index
- green living environment around the city
- climate
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arable land
- stability country
- BMI (health)
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- prosperous (economic activity)
- share of meat and fish in diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- proximity stores
- sanitation and hygiene
- diversity diet
- population increase
Cape Town (South Africa)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Average |
| Availability | o |
| Food risk | o |
| Healthy lifestyle | o |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- infrastructure
- proximity stores
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- climate
- climate risk
Indicators with a negative effect:
- Gini-index
- green living environment around city
Dakar (Senegal)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Very low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | o |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- proximity stores
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- fresh food production
- GDP
- total kcal intake
- population increase
- prosperous (economic activity)
- remaining agriland
- stability country
- sanitation and hygiene
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
Dar es Salaam (United Republic of Tanzania)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Very low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- proximity stores
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- fresh food production
- GDP
- kcal from meat and fish
- total kcal intake
- population increase
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- sanitation and hygiene
Dar-el-Beida / Casablanca (Morocco)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Above average |
| Availability | o |
| Food risk | o |
| Healthy lifestyle | + |
| Accessibility | o |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (health)
- proximity stores
Indicators with a negative effect:
- climate
- green living environment around city
Douala (Cameroon)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Very low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | o |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (health)
- green living environment around city
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- ease of doing business
- fresh food production
- GDP
- Gini-index
- population increase
- prosperous (economic activity)
- risk from flood
- stability country
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- sanitation and hygiene
- climate
Ibadan (Nigeria)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Rather low |
| Availability | o |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- none
Indicators with a negative effect:
- ease of doing business
- Gini-index
- infrastructure
- stability country
- remaining agriland
- GDP
- GDP development
- prosperous (economic activity)
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Johannesburg (South Africa)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Average |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | o |
| Healthy lifestyle | o |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- climate
- infrastructure
- proximity stores
- risk from flood
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- climate risk
Indicators with a negative effect:
- fresh food production
- Gini-index
Kano (Nigeria)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Rather low |
| Availability | o |
| Food risk | o |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | o |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- climate
Indicators with a negative effect:
- ease of doing business
- Gini-index
- stability country
- GDP
- GDP development
- prosperous (economic activity)
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Very low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- proximity stores
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- fresh food production
- GDP
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Kumasi (Ghana)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Rather low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | + |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (health)
Indicators with a negative effect:
- population increase
- prosperous (economic activity)
- remaining agriland
- ease of doing business
- Gini-index
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- sanitation and hygiene
Lagos (Nigeria)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Very low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- proximity stores
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- climate
- ease of doing business
- fresh food production
- Gini-index
- population increase
- remaining agriland
- risk from flood
- stability country
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- GDP
- GDP development
- prosperous (economic activity)
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Luanda (Angola)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | o |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (health)
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- ease of doing business
- fresh food production
- total kcal intake
- population increase
- risk from flood
- stability country
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- GDP development
- Gini-index
- diversity diet
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Lusaka (Zambia)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Very low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | o |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- climate
- proximity stores
- risk from flood
- climate risks
- remaining agriland
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- BMI (food risk)
- fresh food production
- GDP
- Gini-index
- total kcal intake
- population increase
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Naïrobi (Kenya)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Very low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- climate
- risk from flood
- GDP development
- risk from flood
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- BMI (food risk)
- fresh food production
- GDP
- kcal from meat and fish
- total kcal intake
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- share of meat and fish in diet
- infrastructure
- sanitation and hygiene
Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Low |
| Availability | o |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- climate
- risk from flood
- Gini-index
Indicators with a negative effect:
- BMI (health)
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- kcal from meat and fish
- population increase
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- share of meat and fish in diet
- sanitation and hygiene
Port Harcourt (Nigeria)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- none
Indicators with a negative effect:
- climate
- ease of doing business
- Gini-index
- infrastructure
- population increase
- remaining agriland
- risk from flood
- stability country
- GDP
- GDP development
- prosperous (economic activity)
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Yaoundé (Cameroon)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Very low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | o |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (health)
- green living environment around city
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- ease of doing business
- fresh food production
- GDP
- Gini-index
- kcal from meat and fish
- population increase
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- sanitation and hygiene
- climate