Table 4
Persons living in a household that experienced food insecurity1 by selected family type, Canada2, 2019 to 2023
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
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thousands | thousands | thousands | thousands | thousands | % 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 |
Source(s):
Table 13-10-0834-01.
Table note 1
Marginal, moderate and severe food insecurity are included.
Table note 2
Estimates at the Canada level do not include the territories.
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