A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines has a fuel-quantity adjusting member, and an adjusting device associated with the adjusting member and operative for altering a possible travel of the fuel-quantity adjusting member as a function of an atmospheric pressure. The device has a pivotally mounted two-armed stop lever against which the fuel-quantity adjusting member can be brought to rest. A circuit is provided with a working element which acts on the stop lever and changes its position or length following a closure and opening of the circuit. The adjusting device has a switching element which is acted upon by the atmospheric pressure and, as a function of atmospheric pressure closes and opens the circuit.