All food groups (excluding beverages) — Magnesium supply — Value in Cameroon
Cameroon: All food groups (excluding beverages) — Magnesium supply — Value was 584 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
All food groups (excluding beverages) — Magnesium supply — Value in Cameroon, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in mg/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for all food groups (excluding beverages) — magnesium supply — value in Cameroon is 584 mg/cap/d, measured in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 14 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.5% on the previous year and down 7.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, all food groups (excluding beverages) — magnesium supply — value in Cameroon peaked at 637 mg/cap/d in 2012 and was at its lowest, 584 mg/cap/d, in 2023.
That places Cameroon 9th out of 163 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
All food groups (excluding beverages) — Magnesium supply — Value in Cameroon, year by year
| Year | mg/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 621 mg/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 627 mg/cap/d | +1.0% |
| 2012 | 637 mg/cap/d | +1.6% |
| 2013 | 632 mg/cap/d | -0.8% |
| 2014 | 613 mg/cap/d | -3.0% |
| 2015 | 619 mg/cap/d | +1.0% |
| 2016 | 626 mg/cap/d | +1.1% |
| 2017 | 615 mg/cap/d | -1.8% |
| 2018 | 618 mg/cap/d | +0.5% |
| 2019 | 617 mg/cap/d | -0.2% |
| 2020 | 609 mg/cap/d | -1.3% |
| 2021 | 588 mg/cap/d | -3.4% |
| 2022 | 599 mg/cap/d | +1.9% |
| 2023 | 584 mg/cap/d | -2.5% |
Cameroon compared with similar countries
- Cameroon's 584 mg/cap/d is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 383.5 mg/cap/d, 1.5× the median. (38 countries reporting)
- Cameroon's 584 mg/cap/d is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 392 mg/cap/d, 1.5× the median. (33 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 622.5 mg/cap/d | 613 mg/cap/d | 637 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 595 mg/cap/d | 584 mg/cap/d | 609 mg/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Cameroon
- 6 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 405 mg/cap/d compare
- 6 Guyana 619 mg/cap/d compare
- 7 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 372 mg/cap/d compare
- 7 Nepal 609 mg/cap/d compare
- 8 Ethiopia 600 mg/cap/d compare
- 8 Syrian Arab Republic 350 mg/cap/d compare
- 9 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 347 mg/cap/d compare
- 10 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 344 mg/cap/d compare
- 10 Republic of Korea 572 mg/cap/d compare
- 11 Micronesia (Federated States of) 312 mg/cap/d compare
- 11 North Macedonia 549 mg/cap/d compare
- 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 310 mg/cap/d compare
- 12 Serbia 541 mg/cap/d compare
- 12 Timor-Leste 310 mg/cap/d compare
- 12 Tunisia 541 mg/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.9031 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1685 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 332.28 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4433 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is all food groups (excluding beverages) — magnesium supply — value in Cameroon?
- All food groups (excluding beverages) — magnesium supply — value in Cameroon was 584 mg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest all food groups (excluding beverages) — magnesium supply — value recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 637 mg/cap/d in 2012.
- What is the lowest all food groups (excluding beverages) — magnesium supply — value recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 584 mg/cap/d in 2023.
- How does Cameroon rank for all food groups (excluding beverages) — magnesium supply — value?
- Cameroon ranks 9th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is all food groups (excluding beverages) — magnesium supply — value rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Cameroon data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of All food groups (excluding beverages) — Magnesium 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.