Table 4 
Persons living in a household that experienced food insecurity1 by selected family type, Canada2, 2019 to 2023 

Persons living in a household that experienced food insecurity by selected family type, Canada, 2019 to 2023
  2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
  thousandsthousandsthousandsthousandsthousands % of population% of population% of population% of population% of population
All persons 5,844 5,839 6,906 8,689 9,957 15.9 15.7 18.4 22.9 25.5
Persons in economic families 4,630 4,666 5,629 7,038 8,172 15.1 15.1 18.1 22.3 25.2
Persons in senior families 335 359 398 577 691 7.6 7.8 8.3 10.8 12.6
Persons in non-senior families 4,295 4,308 5,232 6,461 7,481 16.3 16.4 19.8 24.6 27.8
Persons in couples without children or other relatives 492 485 527 744 896 10.9 10.8 11.9 17.9 21.1
Persons in two-parent families with children 2,122 2,117 2,800 3,329 3,931 16.4 16.4 21.1 24.7 28.6
Persons in lone-parent families 649 576 695 891 1,023 38.7 33.7 38.8 43.4 47.8
Persons in male lone-parent families 114 69 86 128 129 32.1 21.0 23.9 32.3 30.3
Persons in female lone-parent families 535 507 609 763 894 40.5 36.7 42.6 46.0 52.1
Persons not in an economic family 1,214 1,173 1,277 1,651 1,785 19.8 18.9 20.2 25.6 26.7
Seniors 194 223 253 249 275 10.0 11.2 12.3 13.4 14.3
Non-seniors 1,020 950 1,023 1,402 1,510 24.3 22.4 24.0 30.5 31.7
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