Table 5 
Persons living in a household that experienced food insecurity1, by selected family types and demographic groups, Canada, 2019 to 2021 

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Persons living in a household that experienced food insecurity, by selected family types and demographic groups, Canada, 2019 to 2021
  2019 2020 2021 2019 2020 2021
  thousandsthousandsthousands % of population% of population% of population
All persons 5,844 5,839 6,906 15.9 15.7 18.4
Persons in economic families 4,630 4,666 5,629 15.1 15.1 18.1
Persons in senior families 335 359 398 7.6 7.8 8.3
Persons in non-senior families 4,295 4,308 5,232 16.3 16.4 19.8
Persons in couples without children 492 485 527 10.9 10.8 11.9
Persons in couple families with children 2,122 2,117 2,800 16.4 16.4 21.1
Persons in lone-parent families 649 576 695 38.7 33.7 38.8
Persons in male lone-parent families 114 69 86 32.1 21.0 23.9
Persons in female lone-parent families 535 507 609 40.5 36.7 42.6
Persons not in an economic family 1,214 1,173 1,277 19.8 18.9 20.2
Seniors 194 223 253 10.0 11.2 12.3
Non-seniors 1,020 950 1,023 24.3 22.4 24.0
Visible minority population .. 2,081 2,657 .. 20.7 24.5
South Asian .. 405 580 .. 15.7 21.0
Chinese .. 289 376 .. 14.9 17.9
Black .. 329 610 .. 22.4 39.2
Filipino .. 294 336 .. 28.1 29.2
Arab .. 211 241 .. 26.6 27.0
Latin American .. 190 119 .. 29.0 20.0
Southeast Asian .. 124 131 .. 22.8 22.0
Other visible minority .. 238 266 .. 22.7 22.1
Not a visible minority .. 3,759 4,249 .. 13.9 16.0
Persons aged 16 years and over 4,568 4,592 5,365 15.0 14.9 17.2
Indigenous people (living off reserve) 204 210 228 28.5 27.9 30.9
Recent immigrants2 598 616 710 24.9 24.3 26.2
..
not available for a specific reference period
Source(s):
Tables 13-10-0834-01 and 13-10-0835-01.

Table note 1

Marginal, moderate and severe food insecurity are included.

Table note 2

Who arrived in Canada in the last 10 years.
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