Statistics regarding food inequity
The Census figures also show that homelessness affects people of all ages:
- 10% of homeless persons are under 12 years old
- 36% are between the ages of 12 and 24
- 30% are between the ages of 25 and 44
- 24% are over 45 years old
Each day almost one in every 200 Australians is homeless, without safe, secure or affordable housing.
One in four people who experience homelessness are under the age of 18.
One in every 38 Australian children aged 0-4 spent time in a homeless service over the course of 2009
Over one million people in Australia do not have enough to eat.
Australians waste $5.2 billion of food per year.
The bulk of food waste is sent to landfill, where it creates methane, a greenhouse gas with 20 times more toxic than carbon dioxide.
Every year, 1.2 million Australian struggle to put food on the table.
Your risk of obesity is 20% to 40% higher if you have an insecure food supply
Disadvantaged communities have up to 2.5 times the exposure to fast food outlets
Over 5% of Australians experience personal food insecurity.
In Australia, approximately 1.2 million people cannot regularly provide themselves with a culturally appropriate, safe and nutritious food supply from a non-emergency source.
On any given night in Australia 105,000 people are homeless, and nearly half of these people are under 25. That's 50,000 young people without permanent accommodation.
People aged 55 and over constitute approximately one-fifth of Australia’s homeless population, and there is a large, but unquantified, number of older Australians at risk of homelessness due to their precarious housing circumstances.