In 2023, more than 54 percent of households with people of the Pardo Brazilian ethnicity were in a situation of food insecurity. The rate was 15.2 percent for households headed by people of Black ethnicity.
Distribution of food insecurity in households in Brazil in 2023, by ethnicity
The source considers three types of food insecurity:
Mild food insecurity, where there is evidence of concern about access to food in the future and the quality of food in the household is already compromised and residents or adults in the family have adopted strategies to maintain a minimum amount of food for their members;
Moderate food insecurity means that residents, especially adults in the family, had to live with quantitative food restrictions during the reference period;
Severe food insecurity means that, in addition to the adult members, the children, if present, also experience severe food deprivation, which may reach its most acute expression, hunger.
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Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. (April 25, 2024). Distribution of food insecurity in households in Brazil in 2023, by ethnicity [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1499496/brazil-food-insecurity-by-ethnicity/
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Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. (2024). Distribution of food insecurity in households in Brazil in 2023, by ethnicity . Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1499496/brazil-food-insecurity-by-ethnicity/
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