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According to Eurostat, food insecurity is measured as the inability of a person to include
chicken, meat, fish or a vegetarian equivalent in their diet every second day, and is a sub-set
of the material deprivation indicator.

A person is considered food-insecure when they have no assured access to sufficient
quantities of safe and nutritious foods. In developed countries, we do not see many cases of
extreme hunger or starvation; however, food insecurity can have significant negative
impacts, since “...it can cause mental and physical development problems, affect children’s
school performance and lead to obesity”, (Prolepsis, 2016).

rates of food insecurity in the general population
Countries 2010 2019 2020
Bulgaria BG 43,2 27,6 25,9
Romania RO 21,4 14,2 14,7
Hungary HU 27,6 13,0 12,8
Germany DE 8,6 5,3 12,7
Greece EL 7,9 11,7 12,4
Slovakia SK 23,0 12,3 11,8
Lithuania LT 23,5 11,7 11,6
Latvia LV 26,8 9,8 9,4
Italy ΙΤ 7,0 9,9 9,1
EU-27 9,4 6,8 8,1
Croatia HR 15,7 7,9 7,9
France FR 6,9 7,5 7,1
Malta MT 10,8 5,8 6,0
Estonia EE 10,1 5,3 5,5
Spain ES 2,6 3,8 5,4
Luxembourg LU 0,9 2,3 4,5
Sweden SI 8,5 3,9 4,3
Czech Republic CZ 9,7 4,9 4,1
Austria AT 8,7 3,9 3,9
Belgium BE 5,0 3,6 3,7
Poland PL 15,5 4,1 3,6
Finland FI 2,9 2,5 2,9
Portugal PT 3,3 2,3 2,5
Denmark DK 2,1 2,2 2,3
Netherlands NL 2,6 2,4 2,0
Slovenia SE 2,7 2,0 1,9
Ireland IE 3,0 1,7 1,3
Cyprus CY 4,4 0,8 1,1
Data in Figure 1 • Source: Eurostat EU-SILC survey [ILC_MDES03]

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