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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.
Here we show two bar charts based on our dataset of famines discussed in detail below. The blue bars show the number of famine deaths in each decade since 1860. The number of famine deaths varies hugely from decade to decade depending on the occurrence of individual catastrophic famines.
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.
According to the 2024 Global Report on Food Crises, nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 — up 24 million from the previous year. The increase was due to the report's increased coverage of food crisis contexts.
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 Texas was 13% in 2020. Explore a map of hunger statistics in Texas at the state and local level.
Famines are shapeshifters. They have changed over human history and will continue to do so in the future. Potential causal elements of famine include food supply disruption, failure of market or welfare entitlements, and political agency that creates starvation.
