Table 1 Population, food insecurity prevalence, and scale of food assistance provisioning by city

Population^a

358,054

1,176,307

5,741,419

754,358

403,188

Prevalence of food insecurity^b

14.0%

13.1%

12.5%

9.0%

19.9%

Number of agencies providing food assistance

29

68

122

90

31

340

Number of people working (ratio of paid staff to volunteers)

218

479.5

1570.5

580

242.5

3090.5

(1 : 2.5)

(1 : 4.2)

(1 : 6.4)

(1 : 6.3)

(1 : 4.6)

(1 : 5.3)

Number of people receiving food assistance in one month

12882

16064

90141

11143

7111

137340

Median number served per month by an agency (minimum, maximum)

20

120

266

56

120

120

(1, 7000)

(2.5, 2450)

(1, 11700)

(2, 1700)

(17, 2100)

(1, 11700)

Agencies supplied by centralized distributor, n (%)

8

47

78

53

27

213

(27.6%)

(69.1%)

(63.9%)

(58.9%)

(87.1%)

(62.7%)

Proportion of assistance delivered by agencies supplied by a centralized distributor

73.4%

87.3%

77.0%

87.8%

94.4%

79.6%