The World Bank published on December 19, 2025 its “Food Security Update” report in which it provides a glimpse on the year-on-year change in the food component of a country’s Consumer Price Index (CPI). In details, the report revealed that food price inflation remains elevated across all countries’ income categories, with 45.0% of low-income, 43.5% of lower-middle-income, 41.9% of upper-middle-income and 9.1% of high-income countries having food price inflation levels exceeding 5%. The World Bank noted that real food price inflation (which is defined as nominal food inflation minus overall inflation) has exceeded real overall inflation in 54% of the 166 countries for which both food CPI and overall CPI indexes are available. The monthly trend in the annual change in nominal food price inflation between October 2024 and September 2025 shows a somewhat steady pattern, fluctuating between a low of 20.5% in February and a high of 23.9% in September before slowing to 19.4% in October of the current year.

The report also mentioned that as of December 2025, 17 countries have implemented 27 export-limiting measures, highlighting that although some export bans are still in place, new restrictions in the past few months have been introduced namely in the forms of quotas, duties, or licensing requirements rather than prohibitions.