Table 2. Food Security estimates in studies examining levels of food security in the general population with sample sizes over 200.

Proportion of food insecure in the sample	Location
53% severely food insecure	Rural Limpopo (Study 144) [47]
Nearly 90% food insecure	Urban KwaZulu-Natal (Study 88) [48]
73% rural and 87% urban families at high risk of food insecurity	Urban and Rural Free State (Study 1) [49]
76% worry about not enough money for food	Rural Limpopo (Study 82) [50]
69% of households severely food insecure	Rural Eastern Cape (Study 76) [51]
64% of female and 42% of male headed households food insecure	Peri-Urban Free State (Study 50) [52]