The Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS) is the source of national and State-level statistics on food insecurity used in USDA's annual reports on household food security. The CPS is a monthly labor force survey of about 50,000 households conducted by the Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Once each year, after answering the labor force questions, the same households are asked a series of questions (the Food Security Supplement) about food security, food expenditures, and use of food and nutrition assistance programs. Food security data have been collected by the CPS-FSS each year since 1995. Four data sets that complement those available from the Census Bureau are available for download on the ERS website. These are available as ASCII uncompressed or zipped files. The purpose and appropriate use of these additional data files are described below: 1) CPS 1995 Revised Food Security Status data--This file provides household food security scores and food security status categories that are consistent with procedures and variable naming conventions introduced in 1996. This includes the "common screen" variables to facilitate comparisons of prevalence rates across years. This file must be matched to the 1995 CPS Food Security Supplement public-use data file. 2) CPS 1998 Children's and 30-day Food Security data--Subsequent to the release of the April 1999 CPS-FSS public-use data file, USDA developed two additional food security scales to describe aspects of food security conditions in interviewed households not captured by the 12-month household food security scale. This file provides three food security variables (categorical, raw score, and scale score) for each of these scales along with household identification variables to allow the user to match this supplementary data file to the CPS-FSS April 1998 data file. 3) CPS 1999 Children's and 30-day Food Security data--Subsequent to the release of the April 1999 CPS-FSS public-use data file, USDA developed two additional food security scales to describe aspects of food security conditions in interviewed households not captured by the 12-month household food security scale. This file provides three food security variables (categorical, raw score, and scale score) for each of these scales along with household identification variables to allow the user to match this supplementary data file to the CPS-FSS April 1999 data file. 4) CPS 2000 30-day Food Security data--Subsequent to the release of the September 2000 CPS-FSS public-use data file, USDA developed a revised 30-day CPS Food Security Scale. This file provides three food security variables (categorical, raw score, and scale score) for the 30-day scale along with household identification variables to allow the user to match this supplementary data file to the CPS-FSS September 2000 data file. Food security is measured at the household level in three categories: food secure, low food security and very low food security. Each category is measured by a total count and as a percent of the total population. Categories and measurements are broken down further based on the following demographic characteristics: household composition, race/ethnicity, metro/nonmetro area of residence, and geographic region. The food security scale includes questions about households and their ability to purchase enough food and balanced meals, questions about adult meals and their size, frequency skipped, weight lost, days gone without eating, questions about children meals, including diversity, balanced meals, size of meals, skipped meals and hunger. Questions are also asked about the use of public assistance and supplemental food assistance. The food security scale is 18 items that measure insecurity. A score of 0-2 means a house is food secure, from 3-7 indicates low food security, and 8-18 means very low food security. The scale and the data also report the frequency with which each item is experienced. Data are available as .dat files which may be processed in statistical software or through the United State Census Bureau's DataFerret http://dataferrett.census.gov/. Data from 2010 onwards is available below and online. Data from 1995-2009 must be accessed through DataFerrett. DataFerrett is a data analysis and extraction tool to customize federal, state, and local data to suit your requirements. Through DataFerrett, the user can develop an unlimited array of customized spreadsheets that are as versatile and complex as your usage demands then turn those spreadsheets into graphs and maps without any additional software. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: December 2014 Food Security CPS Supplement. File Name: dec14pub.zipResource Title: December 2013 Food Security CPS Supplement. File Name: dec13pub.zipResource Title: December 2012 Food Security CPS Supplement. File Name: dec12pub.zipResource Title: December 2011 Food Security CPS Supplement. File Name: dec11pub.zipResource Title: December 2010 Food Security CPS Supplement. File Name: dec10pub.zip

The food insecurity rate in the United States was 11.8% in 2020. Explore a map of hunger statistics in the United States at the state and local level.

United States US: Prevalence of Moderate or Severe Food Insecurity in the Population: % of population data was reported at 9.100 % in 2022. This records an increase from the previous number of 8.600 % for 2021. United States US: Prevalence of Moderate or Severe Food Insecurity in the Population: % of population data is updated yearly, averaging 8.750 % from Dec 2015 (Median) to 2022, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 10.500 % in 2015 and a record low of 8.000 % in 2020. United States US: Prevalence of Moderate or Severe Food Insecurity in the Population: % of population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.World Bank.WDI: Social: Health Statistics. The percentage of people in the population who live in households classified as moderately or severely food insecure. A household is classified as moderately or severely food insecure when at least one adult in the household has reported to have been exposed, at times during the year, to low quality diets and might have been forced to also reduce the quantity of food they would normally eat because of a lack of money or other resources.;Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO);;

Historical dataset showing U.S. hunger statistics by year from 2001 to 2022.

This dataset measures food availability and access for 76 low- and middle-income countries. The dataset includes annual country-level data on area, yield, production, nonfood use, trade, and consumption for grains and root and tuber crops (combined as R&T in the documentation tables), food aid, total value of imports and exports, gross domestic product, and population compiled from a variety of sources. This dataset is the basis for the International Food Security Assessment 2015-2025 released in June 2015. This annual ERS report projects food availability and access for 76 low- and middle-income countries over a 10-year period. Countries (Spatial Description, continued): Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: CSV File for all years and all countries. File Name: gfa25.csvResource Title: International Food Security country data. File Name: GrainDemandProduction.xlsxResource Description: Excel files of individual country data. Please note that these files provide the data in a different layout from the CSV file. This version of the data files was updated 9-2-2021

More up-to-date files may be found at: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/international-food-security.aspx

According to the Global Hunger Index 2024, which was adopted by the International Food Policy Research Institute, Somalia was the most affected by hunger and malnutrition, with an index of 44.1. Yemen and Chad followed behind. The World Hunger Index combines three indicators: undernourishment, child underweight, and child mortality. Sub-Saharan Africa most affected The index is dominated by countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the region, more than one fifth of the population is undernourished . In terms of individuals, however, South Asia has the highest number of undernourished people. Globally, there are 735 million people that are considered undernourished or starving. A lack of food is increasing in over 20 countries worldwide. Undernourishment worldwide The term malnutrition includes both undernutrition and overnutrition. Undernutrition occurs when an individual cannot maintain normal bodily functions such as growth, recovering from disease, and both learning and physical work. Some conditions such as diarrhea, malaria, and HIV/AIDS can all have a negative impact on undernutrition. Rural and agricultural communities can be especially susceptible to hunger during certain seasons. The annual hunger gap occurs when a family’s food supply may run out before the next season’s harvest is available and can result in malnutrition. Nevertheless, the prevalence of people worldwide that are undernourished has decreased over the last decades, from 18.7 percent in 1990-92 to 9.2 percent in 2022, but it has slightly increased since the outbreak of COVID-19. According to the Global Hunger Index, the reduction of global hunger has stagnated over the past decade.

https://map.feedingamerica.org/Every community in the country is home to people who struggle with hunger. Since federal nutrition programs don’t reach everyone in need, food banks help fill the gap. Learn more about local food insecurity by exploring data from Feeding America’s annual Map the Meal Gap study. When we better understand hunger, we can help end hunger.What is food insecurity and what does it look like in America?Food insecurity refers to USDA’s measure of lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members and limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods. Food-insecure households are not necessarily food insecure all the time. Food insecurity may reflect a household’s need to make trade-offs between important basic needs, such as housing or medical bills, and purchasing nutritionally adequate foods.Thumbnail: https://www.independent.com/2017/02/24/welcome-department-food-security/Splash screen Image: https://i.shgcdn.com/cbe4de4a-0927-4fd9-b3bd-5df086a72ec2/-/format/auto/-/preview/3000x3000/-/quality/lighter/Gundersen, C., A. Dewey, M. Kato, A. Crumbaugh & M. Strayer. Map the Meal Gap 2019: A Report on County and Congressional District Food Insecurity and County Food Cost in the United States in 2017. Feeding America, 2019.

This data section provides information about publicly available national surveys that include questions from the U.S. Food Security Survey Module. Information on each survey and directions for accessing data files are available in the documentation.This record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the https://data.gov catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources: Web Page For complete information, please visit https://data.gov.

This dataset contains State Food Insecurity metrics displayed in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Environment Atlas website, including the U.S. Household Food Security Scale. The U.S. Household Food Security Scale is designed to register even occasional or episodic occurrences of food insecurity. Some households may be classified as food insecure or as having very low food security based on a single episode during the year. An estimated 11.8 percent of American households were food insecure at least some time during the year in 2017, meaning they lacked access to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. That is down from 12.3 percent in 2016. The prevalence of very low food security also declined, to 4.5 percent from 4.9 percent in 2016. A more complete picture of the temporal patterns of food insecurity in U.S. households sheds light on the nature and seriousness of the food access problems households face and can aid in the design and management of programs to improve food security.

Data was last updated on the USDA website in September 2020.

Any data elements with numerical values reflect figures at the locality-level unless otherwise specified with an asterisk (*). See column descriptions for details. For more information on all metrics in this dataset, see the Food Environment Atlas State Food Insecurity documentation.

This statistic displays the share of households with children with food insecurity in the United States in 2019, by composition. Some 28.7 percent of households comprising of single women and children were classified as food insecure in 2019.

This map includes New Mexico County data from 2021.Data was obtained from Feeding America. Overall (all ages) Hunger & Poverty in the United States | Map the Meal Gap (feedingamerica.org)

NOTE: Due to resource constraints, Team Rubicon is no longer updating operational status of Food Banks. The Feeding America nationwide network of food banks secures and distributes 4.3 billion meals each year through food pantries and meal programs throughout the United States and leads the nation to engage in the fight against hunger.What is a food bank?A food bank is a non-profit organization that collects and distributes food to hunger-relief charities. Food banks act as food storage and distribution depots for smaller front line agencies; and usually do not themselves give out food directly to people struggling with hunger.Food banks in the U.S. are very diverse – from small operations serving people spread out across large rural areas to very large facilities that store and distribute many millions of pounds of food each year, and everything in between. A variety of factors impact how food banks work, from the size of the facility to the number of staff members. But, one thing all food banks have in common is that they rely on donors and volunteers to carry out their day-to-day operations.Data Source: https://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank

The food insecurity rate in the United States was in 2019. Explore a map of hunger statistics in the United States at the state and local level.

Over ** percent of lower income survey respondents in the United States stated that their household was having difficulty in affording needed groceries during the second week of March 2020, amid the coronavirus outbreak. In comparison, just **** percent of upper income shoppers stated the same.

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Comprehensive dataset containing 1 verified Hunger Buster locations in United States with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

Goal 2End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agricultureTarget 2.1: By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year roundIndicator 2.1.1: Prevalence of undernourishmentSN_ITK_DEFC: Prevalence of undernourishment (%)SN_ITK_DEFCN: Number of undernourish people (millions)Indicator 2.1.2: Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)AG_PRD_FIESMS: Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the adult population (%)AG_PRD_FIESMSN: Total population in moderate or severe food insecurity (thousands of people)AG_PRD_FIESS: Prevalence of severe food insecurity in the adult population (%)AG_PRD_FIESSN: Total population in severe food insecurity (thousands of people)Target 2.2: By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older personsIndicator 2.2.1: Prevalence of stunting (height for age SH_STA_STNT: Proportion of children moderately or severely stunted (%)SH_STA_STNTN: Children moderately or severely stunted (thousands)+2 or SH_STA_WAST: Proportion of children moderately or severely wasted (%)SH_STA_WASTN: Children moderately or severely wasted (thousands)SN_STA_OVWGT: Proportion of children moderately or severely overweight (%)SN_STA_OVWGTN: Children moderately or severely overweight (thousands)Indicator 2.2.3: Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15 to 49 years, by pregnancy status (percentage)SH_STA_ANEM: Proportion of women aged 15-49 years with anaemia (%)SH_STA_ANEM_PREG: Proportion of women aged 15-49 years with anaemia, pregnant (%)SH_STA_ANEM_NPRG: Proportion of women aged 15-49 years with anaemia, non-pregnant (%)Target 2.3: By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employmentIndicator 2.3.1: Volume of production per labour unit by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise sizePD_AGR_SSFP: Productivity of small-scale food producers (agricultural output per labour day, PPP) (constant 2011 international $)PD_AGR_LSFP: Productivity of large-scale food producers (agricultural output per labour day, PPP) (constant 2011 international $)Indicator 2.3.2: Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous statusSI_AGR_SSFP: Average income of small-scale food producers, PPP (constant 2011 international $)SI_AGR_LSFP: Average income of large-scale food producers, PPP (constant 2011 international $)Target 2.4: By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil qualityIndicator 2.4.1: Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agricultureTarget 2.5: By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreedIndicator 2.5.1: Number of plant and animal genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium- or long-term conservation facilitiesER_GRF_ANIMRCNTN: Number of local breeds for which sufficient genetic resources are stored for reconstitutionER_GRF_PLNTSTOR: Plant breeds for which sufficient genetic resources are stored (number)Indicator 2.5.2: Proportion of local breeds classified as being at risk of extinctionER_RSK_LBREDS: Proportion of local breeds classified as being at risk as a share of local breeds with known level of extinction risk (%)Target 2.a: Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countriesIndicator 2.a.1: The agriculture orientation index for government expendituresAG_PRD_ORTIND: Agriculture orientation index for government expendituresAG_PRD_AGVAS: Agriculture value added share of GDP (%)AG_XPD_AGSGB: Agriculture share of Government Expenditure (%)Indicator 2.a.2: Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official flows) to the agriculture sectorDC_TOF_AGRL: Total official flows (disbursements) for agriculture, by recipient countries (millions of constant 2018 United States dollars)Target 2.b: Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development RoundIndicator 2.b.1: Agricultural export subsidiesAG_PRD_XSUBDY: Agricultural export subsidies (millions of current United States dollars)Target 2.c: Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatilityIndicator 2.c.1: Indicator of food price anomaliesAG_FPA_COMM: Indicator of Food Price Anomalies (IFPA), by type of productAG_FPA_CFPI: Consumer Food Price IndexAG_FPA_HMFP: Proportion of countries recording abnormally high or moderately high food prices, according to the Indicator of Food Price Anomalies (%)

Data are provided in this collection on labor force activity for the week prior to the survey. Comprehensive data are available on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons 15 years old and older. Also shown are personal characteristics such as age, sex, race, marital status, veteran status, household relationship, educational background, and Hispanic origin. The Food Security Supplement was conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Food and Consumer Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. Supplement questions were asked of all interviewed households, as appropriate. Questions included expenditure for food, whether the household had enough food and the kinds of food they wanted, and whether the household was running short of money and trying to make their food or food money go further. Additional questions dealt with getting food from food pantries or soup kitchens, cutting the size of or skipping meals, and losing weight because there wasn't enough food. The Supplement was intended to research the full range of the severity of food insecurity and hunger as experienced in United States households and was used by the Supplement sponsor to produce a scaled measure of food insecurity. Responses to individual items in the Supplement are not meaningful measures of food insufficiency and should not be used in such a manner. (Source: ICPSR, retrieved 06/23/2011).

Please Note: This dataset is part of the historical CISER Data Archive Collection and is also available at ICPSR -- https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03909.v2. We highly recommend using the ICPSR version as they made this dataset available in multiple data formats.

The share of population who experience severe food insecurity in Central America was estimated at ***** percent in 2024. In each of the analyzed years, the degree of moderate or severe food insecurity remained above the **** percent threshold, reaching the highest level in 2020. According to the source, a person is considered food insecure when they lack regular access to enough safe and nutritious food to lead an active and healthy life. Meanwhile, in Latin America, more than half of the population experienced prevalence of food insecurity.

Distribution of food assistance use patterns by sample sociodemographic characteristics and urbanicity at baseline observation, WAFOOD 1-4 (2020-2023) (n = 703).

The share of the population who experience food insecurity, both severe or moderate, in Latin America was estimated at **** percent in 2024. Latin America is one of the main contributors that raised the global level of food insecurity.

According to the source, a person is considered food insecure when they lack regular access to enough safe and nutritious food to lead an active and healthy life.