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The food insecurity rate in Texas was 13% in 2020. Explore a map of hunger statistics in Texas at the state and local level.
People facing hunger in Texas are estimated to report needing $3,187,674,000 more per year to meet their food needs. The average cost of a meal in Texas is $3.45. Data from Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap study. Learn more ›.
Texas has 1,697,870 children facing hunger with a food insecurity rate of 22.8% or 1 in 4, up from 18% in 2021. NTFB’s 13-county service area continues to have the fourth-highest number of people facing hunger in the nation, with a food insecurity rate of 14.2%, up from 11.9% in 2021.
The food insecurity rate in the United States was 13.5% in 2022. Explore a map of hunger statistics in the United States at the state and local level.
3 lis 2023 · Texas has the second-highest rate of residents at risk of going hungry in the nation. That bleak ranking comes from new data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The new USDA data revealed a dramatic increase in food insecurity across the nation in 2022, jumping by 31% across households.
A famine is an acute episode of extreme hunger that results in excess mortality due to starvation or hunger-induced diseases.1. It is this crisis characteristic that distinguishes it from persistent malnutrition, which we discuss on another topic page.
20 lip 2022 · About 1 in 5 Texas children – and 1 in 8 Texans overall – faced the threat of hunger in 2020, according to the newest data in Feeding America’s annual Map the Meal Gap report. When the data is broken down by race and ethnicity, the numbers are even more stark. That year, 1 in 4 Black Texans and 1 in 5 Latino Texans faced the threat of ...
