America is an outlier in food insecurity.
One in 6 Americans report running out of food at least once a year, whereas in European countries this number is closer to
one in 20. The rate of growth in food insecurity is far greater than many other developed nations. In the late 1960s, America had 9.6 million food insecure people — by 2012, this number had grown 5x to 48 million.