Drawing on data for 55,000 households from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey (CIS) conducted in 2022, we found that from 2021 to 2022, the prevalence of household food insecurity in the ten provinces rose from 15.9% to 17.8%, the highest recorded in
Canada's 17-year history of monitoring. In 2022, 6.9 million people, including almost 1.8 million children under the age of 18, lived in households who experienced some level of food insecurity in the previous 12 months.
Statistics Canada released food
insecurity statistics based on the same data in May 2023. This new report differs from their reporting by focusing primarily on household-level rather than individual-level statistics. It provides an in-depth exploration of food insecurity with
additional descriptions and analyses of sociodemographic and economic characteristics and year-to-year change.
The report also puts these numbers into context, drawing on over a decade of research on how food insecurity reflects a broader problem of income inadequacy and what can be done to address it.
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