12.3.1a Food loss percentage: total — Value by country
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What the numbers show
12.3.1a Food loss percentage: total — Value is currently reported for 5 countries. The highest value is 13.8 % in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 7.4 % in Micronesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 14 %, and the mean is 14.44 %.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.
12.3.1a Food loss percentage: total — Value: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia and New Zealand | 13.8 % | 2023 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 4 | Caribbean | 21.8 % | 2023 | up 4.8% | rising |
| 4 | Melanesia | 15.2 % | 2023 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 6 | Polynesia | 14 % | 2023 | up 12.9% | rising |
| 7 | Micronesia | 7.4 % | 2023 | up 7.2% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Western Africa 26.9 %
- Middle Africa 21.1 %
- Sub-Saharan Africa 23 %
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 19.9 %
- Southern Africa 22.7 %
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 19 %
- Eastern Africa 18.9 %
- Asia 14.1 %
- Central America 16.5 %
- Northern Africa 16 %
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 15.9 %
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 15 %
- Northern America 14.8 %
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 14.8 %
- South-Eastern Asia 14.8 %
- Southern Asia 14.6 %
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 14.2 %
- Oceania 13.9 %
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 13.9 %
- Western Asia 13.8 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 13.4 %
- World 13.3 %
- South America 12.7 %
- Central Asia 10.3 %
- Northern America and Europe 10 %
- Northern Europe 9.9 %
- Eastern Asia 8.8 %
- Southern Europe 7.2 %
- Western Europe 6.5 %
- Europe 6.3 %
- Eastern Europe 4.6 %
About this data
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