Table 5 
Persons living in a household that experienced food insecurity1, by selected family type and demographic group, Canada, 2019 to 2022 

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Persons living in a household that experienced food insecurity, by selected family type and demographic group, Canada, 2019 to 2022
  2019 2020 2021 2022 2019 2020 2021 2022
  thousandsthousandsthousandsthousands % of population% of population% of population% of population
All persons 5,844 5,839 6,906 8,689 15.9 15.7 18.4 22.9
Persons in economic families 4,630 4,666 5,629 7,038 15.1 15.1 18.1 22.3
Persons in senior families 335 359 398 577 7.6 7.8 8.3 10.8
Persons in non-senior families 4,295 4,308 5,232 6,461 16.3 16.4 19.8 24.6
Persons in couples without children 492 485 527 744 10.9 10.8 11.9 17.9
Persons in couple families with children 2,122 2,117 2,800 3,329 16.4 16.4 21.1 24.7
Persons in lone-parent families 649 576 695 891 38.7 33.7 38.8 43.4
Persons in male lone-parent families 114 69 86 128 32.1 21.0 23.9 32.3
Persons in female lone-parent families 535 507 609 763 40.5 36.7 42.6 46.0
Persons not in an economic family 1,214 1,173 1,277 1,651 19.8 18.9 20.2 25.6
Seniors 194 223 253 249 10.0 11.2 12.3 13.4
Non-seniors 1,020 950 1,023 1,402 24.3 22.4 24.0 30.5
Visible minority population .. 2,081 2,657 3,007 .. 20.7 24.5 27.3
South Asian .. 405 580 698 .. 15.7 21.0 23.8
Chinese .. 289 376 346 .. 14.9 17.9 19.0
Black .. 329 610 615 .. 22.4 39.2 40.4
Filipino .. 294 336 308 .. 28.1 29.2 27.0
Arab .. 211 241 210 .. 26.6 27.0 25.8
Latin American .. 190 119 236 .. 29.0 20.0 31.1
Southeast Asian .. 124 131 170 .. 22.8 22.0 25.3
Other visible minority .. 238 266 426 .. 22.7 22.1 31.4
Not a visible minority .. 3,759 4,249 5,682 .. 13.9 16.0 21.0
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not available for a specific reference period
Source(s):
Tables 13-10-0834-01 and 13-10-0835-01.

Table note 1

Marginal, moderate and severe food insecurity are included.
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