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Statistics Canada has just released new data from the 2022 Canadian Income Survey, providing a new look at food insecurity in 2023. While data on income and poverty from this survey are based on Canadians' 2022 tax files, the questions about food insecurity are asked between January and June 2023.
In 2023, 22.9% of people in the ten provinces lived in a food-insecure household. That amounts to 8.7 million people, including 2.1 million children, living in households that struggled to afford the food they need. With another year of rising food insecurity, the percentage and number of people affected are at new record highs. These new statistics are a wake-up call for governments to do more to protect Canadians from food insecurity, whether by improving the existing programs that make up our social safety net or implementing new ones.
PROOF has summarized some of the key statistics from the release in a series of interactive graphs: https://proof.utoronto.ca/2024/new-data-on-household-food-insecurity-in-2023/
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Tim
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Tim Li, MSCom
PROOF Research Program Coordinator
Department of Nutritional Sciences
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5S 1A8
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New StatCan data shows household food insecurity at a record high in 2023.
In 2023, 8.7 million people in the ten provinces, including 2.1 million children, lived in a food-insecure household.
The new data release from Statistics Canada’s 2022 Canadian Income Survey (CIS) provides the latest update on food insecurity in 2023. While the CIS 2021 provides information on income and poverty using 2022 tax files, hence its name, questions about food insecurity were asked in the following year, from January to June 2023.
In our new post<https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=52b2af448c&e=6ae3d10f35>, we’ve summarized the new data on food insecurity in 2023 and created interactive graphs to examine the steep rise in food insecurity.
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In 2023, the percentage of people living food-insecure households has risen in every province to new record highs.
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In 2023, over 1 in 4 children (28.4%) under 18 in the ten provinces lived in a food-insecure household. That amounts to 2.1 million children, increasing from the almost 1.8 million in 2022. About three quarters (74%) of these children, 1.5 million children, were in moderately or severely food-insecure households.
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These new statistics are a wake-up call for governments to do more to protect Canadians from food insecurity, whether by improving the existing programs that make up our social safety net (i.e. Canada Child Benefit, GST Credit, Canada Workers Benefit, EI, provincial social assistance and child benefits, etc.), or implementing new ones like a basic income.
Read our latest post for more details and graphs for provincial estimates, children living in food-insecure households, and food insecurity by racial/cultural identity & Indigenous status.
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