All food groups (excluding beverages) — Calcium supply — Value in Botswana
Botswana: All food groups (excluding beverages) — Calcium supply — Value was 528 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
All food groups (excluding beverages) — Calcium supply — Value in Botswana, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in mg/cap/d.
Analysis
Botswana recorded 528 mg/cap/d for all food groups (excluding beverages) — calcium supply — value in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 14 years on record.
That represents a change of down 2.4% on the previous year and down 17.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, all food groups (excluding beverages) — calcium supply — value in Botswana peaked at 664 mg/cap/d in 2012 and was at its lowest, 528 mg/cap/d, in 2023.
That places Botswana 117th out of 163 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
All food groups (excluding beverages) — Calcium supply — Value in Botswana, year by year
| Year | mg/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 646 mg/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 650 mg/cap/d | +0.6% |
| 2012 | 664 mg/cap/d | +2.2% |
| 2013 | 643 mg/cap/d | -3.2% |
| 2014 | 612 mg/cap/d | -4.8% |
| 2015 | 606 mg/cap/d | -1.0% |
| 2016 | 622 mg/cap/d | +2.6% |
| 2017 | 566 mg/cap/d | -9.0% |
| 2018 | 615 mg/cap/d | +8.7% |
| 2019 | 585 mg/cap/d | -4.9% |
| 2020 | 644 mg/cap/d | +10.1% |
| 2021 | 648 mg/cap/d | +0.6% |
| 2022 | 541 mg/cap/d | -16.5% |
| 2023 | 528 mg/cap/d | -2.4% |
Botswana compared with similar countries
- Botswana's 528 mg/cap/d is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 834 mg/cap/d, 63% of the median. (50 countries reporting)
- Botswana's 528 mg/cap/d is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 445 mg/cap/d, 1.2× the median. (33 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 620.9 mg/cap/d | 566 mg/cap/d | 664 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 590.25 mg/cap/d | 528 mg/cap/d | 648 mg/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Botswana
More agriculture & rural data for Botswana
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 4.45 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0178 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 138.54 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.0839 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3204 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is all food groups (excluding beverages) — calcium supply — value in Botswana?
- All food groups (excluding beverages) — calcium supply — value in Botswana was 528 mg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest all food groups (excluding beverages) — calcium supply — value recorded in Botswana?
- The highest recorded value was 664 mg/cap/d in 2012.
- What is the lowest all food groups (excluding beverages) — calcium supply — value recorded in Botswana?
- The lowest recorded value was 528 mg/cap/d in 2023.
- How does Botswana rank for all food groups (excluding beverages) — calcium supply — value?
- Botswana ranks 117th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is all food groups (excluding beverages) — calcium supply — value rising or falling in Botswana?
- Over the last ten years it is down 17.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Botswana data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of All food groups (excluding beverages) — Calcium supply — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The dataset presents average daily per capita macro and micro nutrient availability by country and by FAO/WHO GIFT food groups (that are different from those used for the Food Balance Sheets), expressed in grams/milligrams/micrograms/kcal per capita per day. The population numbers used to calculate these statistics can be found in the Supply Utilization Accounts (SUA) dataset of FAOSTAT, as Total Population. Food availability quantities are derived from the SUA dataset. SUAs present a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply and utilization during a specified reference period. The SUA shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per capita supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it.