About this data
- Food security is measured in the Family Resources Survey with a set of questions about the past 30 days: for example, whether people worried food would run out, ate less or skipped meals because there wasn't enough money for food.
- Low food security means people reduced the quality or variety of their diet; very low food security means they also ate less or went hungry. Food insecure here means either low or very low food security.
- Figures are for financial years, shown by the year they end: 2025 is April 2024 to March 2025. 2020/21 was collected by telephone during the pandemic, so treat it with caution.
This chart appears in Poverty.