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