Animal fats — Fat supply quantity (g/capita/day) by country

A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet 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...

Countries reporting
164
Highest
49.91 g/cap/d
Austria
Lowest
0.13 g/cap/d
Sierra Leone
Median
5.38 g/cap/d
Years covered
14
2010–2023
Data points
2,901

What the numbers show

Animal fats — Fat supply quantity (g/capita/day) is currently reported for 164 countries. The highest value is 49.91 g/cap/d in Austria; the lowest is 0.13 g/cap/d in Sierra Leone.

The median across all reporting countries is 5.38 g/cap/d, and the mean is 8.93 g/cap/d.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 384.

Over the past decade 91 countries rose and 66 fell. The largest increase was in Tajikistan (up 4,075.0%), and the largest decrease in Madagascar (down 59.3%).

Animal fats — Fat supply quantity: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Austria 49.91 g/cap/d 2023 down 2.2% flat
2 Denmark 46.02 g/cap/d 2023 up 1.5% rising
3 Belgium 45.81 g/cap/d 2023 down 3.3% rising
4 Slovakia 44.79 g/cap/d 2023 up 32.2% rising
5 France 35.39 g/cap/d 2023 up 24.0% rising
6 Poland 31.83 g/cap/d 2023 up 25.5% rising
7 Czechia 31.44 g/cap/d 2023 up 36.9% rising
8 Latvia 30.31 g/cap/d 2023 up 7.7% flat
9 Hungary 30.23 g/cap/d 2023 down 10.5% flat
10 Ireland 29.53 g/cap/d 2023 up 57.7% rising
11 Germany 29.16 g/cap/d 2023 down 9.9% falling
12 Estonia 27.62 g/cap/d 2023 up 359.6% volatile
13 Croatia 27.04 g/cap/d 2023 up 75.0% rising
14 Canada 26.09 g/cap/d 2023 up 7.7% rising
15 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 25.93 g/cap/d 2023 up 142.1% rising
16 Iceland 24.34 g/cap/d 2023 up 0.1% rising
17 New Zealand 22.54 g/cap/d 2023 down 42.0% falling
18 Finland 22.1 g/cap/d 2023 down 24.7% rising
19 Bahrain 20.8 g/cap/d 2023 rising
20 Belarus 20.77 g/cap/d 2023 up 41.3% rising
21 Portugal 20.62 g/cap/d 2023 down 4.2% flat
22 Switzerland 19.59 g/cap/d 2023 down 3.4% falling
23 Slovenia 19 g/cap/d 2023 down 9.0% falling
24 Lithuania 17.7 g/cap/d 2023 up 22.2% rising
25 Norway 17.14 g/cap/d 2023 down 35.2% falling
26 Italy 16.07 g/cap/d 2023 down 7.2% falling
27 Uruguay 15.92 g/cap/d 2023 up 43.8% rising
28 Azerbaijan 15.6 g/cap/d 2023 up 103.7% rising
29 Sweden 15.59 g/cap/d 2023 down 31.4% falling
30 Mongolia 15.52 g/cap/d 2023 down 34.0% falling
31 Romania 15.5 g/cap/d 2023 up 2.0% flat
32 Pakistan 14.46 g/cap/d 2023 up 16.6% rising
33 Russian Federation 14.39 g/cap/d 2023 up 0.6% rising
34 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 13.56 g/cap/d 2023 up 13.7% flat
35 French Polynesia 13.51 g/cap/d 2023 down 11.1% rising
36 Australia and New Zealand 13.11 g/cap/d 2023 down 25.8% falling
37 Argentina 12.61 g/cap/d 2023 up 77.6% rising
38 Panama 12.41 g/cap/d 2023 down 3.3% flat
39 Bulgaria 12.04 g/cap/d 2023 up 18.2% rising
40 Costa Rica 11.95 g/cap/d 2023 up 11.5% rising
41 Brazil 11.93 g/cap/d 2023 up 38.4% rising
42 Armenia 11.87 g/cap/d 2023 up 25.7% rising
43 China, Macao SAR 11.82 g/cap/d 2023 up 74.6% rising
44 China, Hong Kong SAR 11.32 g/cap/d 2023 down 0.1% rising
45 Australia 11.27 g/cap/d 2023 down 17.2% falling
46 Georgia 10.83 g/cap/d 2023 up 111.5% rising
47 Saint Lucia 10.17 g/cap/d 2023 up 48.3% rising
48 India 10.11 g/cap/d 2023 up 30.6% rising
49 Luxembourg 10.07 g/cap/d 2023 up 17.6% rising
50 Uzbekistan 9.71 g/cap/d 2023 up 25.8% rising
51 Ecuador 9.36 g/cap/d 2023 down 19.2% falling
52 Fiji 9.25 g/cap/d 2023 down 18.1% falling
53 New Caledonia 9.22 g/cap/d 2023 down 33.2% falling
54 Paraguay 9.12 g/cap/d 2023 down 13.8% falling
55 Barbados 9.05 g/cap/d 2023 up 22.0% rising
56 Tonga 8.9 g/cap/d 2023 flat
57 Montenegro 8.6 g/cap/d 2023 up 34.6% rising
58 Republic of Korea 8.48 g/cap/d 2023 up 12.8% rising
59 China, Taiwan Province of 8.39 g/cap/d 2023 up 35.1% rising
60 Malta 8.26 g/cap/d 2023 down 20.3% falling
61 Chile 8.24 g/cap/d 2023 up 4.8% rising
62 Spain 8.21 g/cap/d 2023 up 37.3% rising
63 Samoa 8.13 g/cap/d 2023 up 50.8% rising
64 North Macedonia 8.04 g/cap/d 2023 down 39.7% falling
65 Greece 7.92 g/cap/d 2023 up 61.6% rising
66 Serbia 7.43 g/cap/d 2023 up 158.9% rising
67 Bhutan 6.89 g/cap/d 2023 falling
68 Albania 6.66 g/cap/d 2023 up 9.4% falling
69 Seychelles 6.51 g/cap/d 2023 up 112.1% rising
70 Nepal 6.5 g/cap/d 2023 up 18.0% rising
71 Guatemala 6.4 g/cap/d 2023 up 181.9% rising
72 Trinidad and Tobago 6.32 g/cap/d 2023 down 10.2% rising
73 Kazakhstan 6.29 g/cap/d 2023 up 30.2% rising
74 Saudi Arabia 6.28 g/cap/d 2023 down 11.3% flat
75 Marshall Islands 6.27 g/cap/d 2023 rising
76 Ukraine 6.25 g/cap/d 2023 down 52.0% falling
77 Malaysia 6.15 g/cap/d 2023 up 62.7% rising
78 Jamaica 5.74 g/cap/d 2023 up 16.2% flat
79 Maldives 5.73 g/cap/d 2023 up 39.8% rising
80 Bahamas 5.68 g/cap/d 2023 up 1.2% falling
81 Cuba 5.56 g/cap/d 2019 up 50.3% rising
82 Antigua and Barbuda 5.38 g/cap/d 2023 down 3.8% rising
82 Philippines 5.38 g/cap/d 2023 down 6.4% flat
82 Tuvalu 5.38 g/cap/d 2023 rising
85 Qatar 5.32 g/cap/d 2023 rising
86 Cyprus 5.28 g/cap/d 2023 up 88.6% rising
87 Mexico 5.15 g/cap/d 2023 down 26.0% falling
88 United Arab Emirates 5.14 g/cap/d 2023 down 8.7% rising
89 Jordan 5.09 g/cap/d 2023 up 32.2% rising
90 Tunisia 4.9 g/cap/d 2023 up 39.2% rising
91 Kuwait 4.81 g/cap/d 2023 down 21.1% falling
92 Oman 4.6 g/cap/d 2023 up 21.4% rising
93 Israel 4.42 g/cap/d 2023 up 52.9% rising
94 Turkmenistan 4.3 g/cap/d 2023 down 6.3% flat
95 Namibia 4.29 g/cap/d 2023 down 12.6% falling
96 Bosnia and Herzegovina 4.2 g/cap/d 2023 up 10.8% rising
97 Iraq 4.13 g/cap/d 2023 up 380.2% volatile
98 El Salvador 4 g/cap/d 2023 up 2.8% falling
99 Zimbabwe 3.89 g/cap/d 2023 up 38.9% falling
100 Dominican Republic 3.74 g/cap/d 2023 up 15.1% rising
101 Grenada 3.53 g/cap/d 2023 up 196.6% rising
102 China 3.52 g/cap/d 2023 down 13.9% falling
103 China, mainland 3.4 g/cap/d 2023 down 15.2% falling
104 Tajikistan 3.34 g/cap/d 2023 up 4,075.0% volatile
105 Nicaragua 3.29 g/cap/d 2023 up 74.1% rising
106 Colombia 3.26 g/cap/d 2023 down 6.1% falling
107 Botswana 3.25 g/cap/d 2023 up 39.5% rising
108 Mauritius 3.24 g/cap/d 2023 up 7.3% rising
109 Belize 3.2 g/cap/d 2023 down 12.6% flat
110 Morocco 3.14 g/cap/d 2023 down 43.4% falling
111 Honduras 3.1 g/cap/d 2023 down 39.7% falling
112 Afghanistan 3.04 g/cap/d 2023 down 17.6% falling
113 Thailand 2.86 g/cap/d 2023 up 110.3% rising
114 Libya 2.84 g/cap/d 2023 up 29.1% rising
115 Mauritania 2.79 g/cap/d 2023 up 7.3% falling
116 Lebanon 2.61 g/cap/d 2023 down 32.0% falling
117 Egypt 2.59 g/cap/d 2023 down 41.1% falling
118 Solomon Islands 2.46 g/cap/d 2023 up 78.3% rising
119 Burkina Faso 2.38 g/cap/d 2023 up 107.0% volatile
120 Nauru 2.33 g/cap/d 2023 falling
121 Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.31 g/cap/d 2023 up 62.7% volatile
122 Malawi 2.3 g/cap/d 2023 up 155.6% rising
122 Eswatini 2.3 g/cap/d 2023 up 42.0% rising
124 Kyrgyzstan 2.28 g/cap/d 2023 up 111.1% rising
125 Niger 2.19 g/cap/d 2023 up 16.5% flat
126 Vanuatu 2.13 g/cap/d 2023 down 31.7% falling
127 Kiribati 1.89 g/cap/d 2023 up 37.0% rising
127 Peru 1.89 g/cap/d 2023 up 52.4% rising
129 Myanmar 1.75 g/cap/d 2023 down 59.1% falling
130 Kenya 1.61 g/cap/d 2023 down 4.7% falling
131 Cambodia 1.58 g/cap/d 2023 up 6.8% flat
132 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.56 g/cap/d 2023 up 43.1% rising
133 Angola 1.35 g/cap/d 2023 up 3.1% falling
134 Yemen 1.3 g/cap/d 2023 up 15.0% rising
135 Zambia 1.16 g/cap/d 2023 down 7.2% falling
136 Papua New Guinea 1.14 g/cap/d 2023 down 11.6% flat
137 Comoros 1.07 g/cap/d 2023 up 296.3% volatile
137 South Africa 1.07 g/cap/d 2023 down 15.7% falling
139 Haiti 1.05 g/cap/d 2023 up 29.6% rising
140 Guyana 1.01 g/cap/d 2023 up 44.3% rising
140 Nigeria 1.01 g/cap/d 2023 up 27.8% rising
142 Djibouti 1 g/cap/d 2023 down 14.5% falling
143 Senegal 0.99 g/cap/d 2023 down 24.4% falling
144 Ethiopia 0.96 g/cap/d 2023 up 7.9% falling
144 Suriname 0.96 g/cap/d 2023 up 3.2% flat
146 Bangladesh 0.89 g/cap/d 2023 up 17.1% rising
146 Algeria 0.89 g/cap/d 2023 down 50.3% falling
148 Sao Tome and Principe 0.88 g/cap/d 2023 down 2.2% rising
149 Uganda 0.8 g/cap/d 2023 down 7.0% falling
150 Cameroon 0.71 g/cap/d 2023 down 1.4% falling
151 Gabon 0.61 g/cap/d 2023 down 28.2% falling
152 Guinea 0.58 g/cap/d 2023 up 9.4% rising
153 Rwanda 0.57 g/cap/d 2023 down 26.9% falling
154 Lesotho 0.56 g/cap/d 2023 down 57.6% falling
155 Mozambique 0.53 g/cap/d 2023 down 26.4% rising
156 Ghana 0.49 g/cap/d 2023 up 11.4% flat
157 Gambia 0.46 g/cap/d 2023 down 2.1% volatile
158 Guinea-Bissau 0.45 g/cap/d 2023 down 23.7% falling
159 Sri Lanka 0.43 g/cap/d 2023 up 30.3% rising
160 Indonesia 0.4 g/cap/d 2023 down 28.6% flat
161 Congo 0.25 g/cap/d 2023 down 3.8% flat
161 Liberia 0.25 g/cap/d 2023 down 21.9% flat
163 Madagascar 0.22 g/cap/d 2023 down 59.3% falling
164 Sierra Leone 0.13 g/cap/d 2023 down 27.8% falling

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Indicator
Animal fats — Fat supply quantity (g/capita/day)
Unit
g/cap/d
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
213 places, 2,901 data points, 2010–2023
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A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet 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 caput 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. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.