American food insecurity rates increase to 13.5%: USDA

Food insecurity rate in 2023 was 13.5% or 47 million American households
More than half of food-insecure households include children
Food insecurity increased due to decrease in government benefits, inflation

Updated: Sep 9, 2024 / 02:24 PM CDT

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 28: Free food is distributed to residents in need at a weekly food bank at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Brooklyn on February 28, 2024 in New York City. The weekly distribution has been seeing a continual growth of clients and now serves over 300 people in line every week. According to the Poverty Tracker Annual Report from Columbia University and the philanthropic organization Robin Hood, over half of New York City residents, including a quarter of all children, either live in poverty or are low-income. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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(NewsNation) — Food insecurity in the U.S. rose 0.7% last year, raising the official food insecurity rate from 12.8% in 2022 to 13.5% in 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

While 114.6 million households were food secure, an estimated 47 million American households had little to no food available for themselves or their families in 2023, The Conversation reported.

More than half of food-insecure households include children. Of those children impacted by food insecurity, 841,000 experienced very low food security.

According to the USDA, food insecure households are defined as “uncertain of having or unable to acquire enough food to meet the needs of all their members because they had insufficient money or other resources for food.”

Residents in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas have the highest food insecurity rate in the U.S., according to the data.

The Conversation reported that the food insecurity rate increased rapidly due to the “sharp decline in government benefits” and elevated food prices.

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