UK foodbank users 2023

In 2022/23 approximately 2.99 million people used a foodbank in the United Kingdom, an increase when compared with the previous year. Between 2008/09 and 2020/21, the number of foodbank users increased in every year, from just under 26,000 to more than 2.56 million.

Number of people receiving emergency food parcels from Trussell Trust foodbanks in the United Kingdom from 2008/09 to 2022/23

Characteristic	Number of people
2022/23	2,986,203
2021/22	2,183,625
2020/21	2,579,292
2019/20	1,909,388
2018/19	1,606,794
2017/18	1,354,362
2016/17	1,201,286
2015/16	1,112,395
2014/15	1,091,282
2013/14	913,138
2012/13	346,992
2011/12	128,697
2010/11	61,468
2009/10	40,898
2008/09	25,899

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2023

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2008 to 2023

Supplementary notes

Trussell Trust is the largest foodbank organisation in the United Kingdom. Statistics are collected using an online data collection system into which foodbanks enter the data from each foodbank voucher. The system records the number of adults and children given three days’ emergency food.

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