OVERALL FINDINGS
Every year, food banks across the country are setting new records. This year, they recorded 2.2 million visits in a single month and climbing. That’s double the monthly usage recorded just six years ago. It took decades to reach one million visits in a month, and it has now taken half a decade to double that, an unfortunate reality when everyone should have access to the daily food required to live, work, and reach their full potential.
THE DATA
Canada
| ALL |
|---|
| Total Visits | 2,059,636 |
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| Total Visits (Child) | 681,450 |
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| % Change in Total Visits 2023-2024 | 6 |
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| % Change in Total Visits 2019-2024 | 90 |
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| Total Meals and Snacks | 4,117,206 |
|---|
| Food Banks Reporting | 2589 |
|---|
19%
11.7%
8.4%
23%
4,522,356
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Food Banks Canada provides national leadership to relieve hunger today and prevent hunger tomorrow in collaboration with the food bank network in Canada. We do this by maximizing the collective impact of the network, strengthening the local capacity of food banks and advocating to reduce the need for food banks.
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The annual HungerCount is Food Banks Canada’s signature report documenting food bank use in Canada. It is a cross-sectional census survey of most food bank agencies, organizations, and programs, within and outside of the Food Banks Canada network. The HungerCount provides a point in time snapshot of food bank use in Canada.
Food Banks Canada is always looking for ways to improve the HungerCount report. If you have questions about the report, or ideas on how we could improve it, we would like to hear from you. Please get in touch at info@foodbankscanada.ca and put HungerCount in the subject line of your message.
To learn more about our data collection and analysis processes for HungerCount 2025, click here to download the full PDF report.
