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Mississippi, average 1998-2000

	Total	Food Insecure	Food Insecure with Hunger
Percent of Households (%)	100.0	13.10	3.27
Number of Households (thousands)	1,077	142	36
Number of People in Households (thousands)	2,801	428	100
Rank (out of 51)	--	7t*	23

* tied ranking
Source: A. Sullivan and E. Choi (August 2002). Hunger and Food Insecurity in the Fifty States: 1998-2000. Waltham, MA: Food Security Institute, Center on Hunger and Poverty.