National Picture Improves
The share of households in Syria classified as food secure rose to 17.4 percent in 2025, up from 10.3 percent in 2024, according to survey data covering a sample of 34,820 households compiled by the Planning and Statistics Authority. A further 51.3 percent were marginally food secure.
At the same time, 29.3 percent of households were moderately food insecure and 2.0 percent severely food insecure in 2025, down from a combined 37.7 percent a year earlier. The figures point to a modest recovery that still leaves roughly three in ten households short of adequate food.
A Sharp Regional Divide
Food security varied widely across the country in 2025. It was lowest in Raqqa at 4.2 percent and Hassakeh at 4.6 percent, and highest in Tartous at 29.9 percent and Rural Damascus at 27.6 percent.
Severe food insecurity was concentrated in the northeast, peaking at 9.5 percent of households in Raqqa and 7.3 percent in Deir-ez-Zor. Conditions were tightest in displacement camps, where only 4.1 percent of households were food secure and 7.5 percent were severely food insecure.
Food Eats Household Income
Households devoted an average of 52.5 percent of their spending to food in 2025. For severely food-insecure households, that share climbed to 73.0 percent, leaving little room for rent, fuel, health care, or education.
The weight of food costs underscores how thin household budgets remain even as the national food-security rate improved, with the poorest families spending nearly three-quarters of every pound on basic nutrition.
Who Is Most Exposed
Female-headed households fared worse than male-headed ones, with 12 percent food secure against 18.5 percent, and a severe-insecurity rate of 3.6 percent versus 1.7 percent. Food security also rose steeply with the education of the household head, from 7.1 percent among the illiterate to 43 percent among those holding postgraduate degrees.
The source of income mattered most of all. Households relying on begging or waste collection recorded the lowest food security, at 1.3 percent, and the highest severe insecurity, at 12 percent, while households receiving remittances reached 28.3 percent food security.