Average fat supply (g/cap/day) (3-year average) — Value by country

The Suite of Food Security Indicators presents the core set of food security indicators. Following the recommendation of experts gathered in the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Round Table on hunger measurement, hosted at FAO headquarters in September 2011, an initial set of indicators aiming to capture...

Countries reporting
182
Highest
186 g/cap/d
Austria
Lowest
21.1 g/cap/d
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Median
92.15 g/cap/d
Years covered
22
2000–2021
Data points
4,679

What the numbers show

Average fat supply (g/cap/day) (3-year average) — Value is currently reported for 182 countries. The highest value is 186 g/cap/d in Austria; the lowest is 21.1 g/cap/d in Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The median across all reporting countries is 92.15 g/cap/d, and the mean is 95.05 g/cap/d.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 9.

Over the past decade 134 countries rose and 47 fell. The largest increase was in Indonesia (up 70.5%), and the largest decrease in Gambia (down 33.1%).

Average fat supply (g/cap/day) (3-year average) — Value: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Austria 186 g/cap/d 2021 up 5.0% rising
2 Belgium 179.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 8.4% rising
3 Germany 163.7 g/cap/d 2021 up 10.2% rising
4 Switzerland 163.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 6.8% rising
5 Israel 162.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 5.6% rising
6 Iceland 161.9 g/cap/d 2021 up 12.6% rising
7 Canada 160.9 g/cap/d 2021 up 8.1% rising
8 Italy 160.2 g/cap/d 2021 down 1.0% flat
9 Czechia 159.3 g/cap/d 2021 up 15.7% rising
10 Australia 158.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 1.1% rising
11 Denmark 157.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 12.6% rising
12 Ireland 156.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 18.3% rising
13 Hungary 156.5 g/cap/d 2021 up 17.5% rising
14 Spain 154.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 6.2% flat
15 Australia and New Zealand 151.3 g/cap/d 2021 down 0.5% rising
16 Greece 150.5 g/cap/d 2021 down 3.5% rising
17 France 149.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 0.7% falling
18 Latvia 148.7 g/cap/d 2021 up 20.8% rising
19 Slovakia 147 g/cap/d 2021 up 27.2% rising
20 Portugal 143.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 4.9% rising
21 Montenegro 142.5 g/cap/d 2021 up 16.0% rising
22 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 142 g/cap/d 2021 up 14.8% flat
23 Brazil 141.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 19.2% rising
24 Sweden 140.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 3.9% rising
25 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 140.7 g/cap/d 2021 up 10.6% flat
26 Türkiye 139.3 g/cap/d 2021 up 14.0% rising
27 Poland 139.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 12.8% rising
28 Croatia 139 g/cap/d 2021 up 23.6% rising
29 Estonia 138.7 g/cap/d 2021 up 49.8% rising
30 Norway 138.6 g/cap/d 2021 down 0.1% falling
31 Argentina 137.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 27.9% rising
31 Romania 137.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 16.2% rising
33 Bulgaria 137.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 47.3% rising
34 Luxembourg 132.5 g/cap/d 2021 up 0.3% falling
35 China, Taiwan Province of 131.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 7.5% flat
36 Micronesia 130.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 3.7% rising
37 Kiribati 129.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 3.1% rising
38 Belarus 129.3 g/cap/d 2021 up 1.3% rising
39 Mongolia 129 g/cap/d 2021 up 29.8% rising
40 United Arab Emirates 127.8 g/cap/d 2021 down 3.8% rising
41 French Polynesia 127.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 4.0% flat
42 Lithuania 126.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 26.4% rising
43 Malta 126.7 g/cap/d 2021 up 4.4% rising
44 Republic of Korea 126.3 g/cap/d 2021 up 25.8% rising
45 Finland 125.4 g/cap/d 2021 down 4.9% flat
46 Russian Federation 124 g/cap/d 2021 up 12.9% rising
47 China, Macao SAR 122.4 g/cap/d 2021 down 10.8% rising
48 Uruguay 121.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 13.6% rising
49 Kazakhstan 121.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 6.1% rising
50 New Caledonia 121.1 g/cap/d 2021 up 5.9% flat
51 Polynesia 120.4 g/cap/d 2021 down 2.4% falling
52 Bermuda 119.7 g/cap/d 2007 up 10.9% rising
53 North Macedonia 119.5 g/cap/d 2021 up 11.9% rising
54 Saint Kitts and Nevis 117.7 g/cap/d 2021 up 33.1% rising
55 China, Hong Kong SAR 117.3 g/cap/d 2021 down 7.1% falling
56 Albania 114.3 g/cap/d 2021 up 7.1% rising
57 Serbia 114.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 18.3% rising
58 Kuwait 113.7 g/cap/d 2021 down 0.4% falling
59 Vanuatu 113.5 g/cap/d 2021 down 8.5% rising
60 New Zealand 113.1 g/cap/d 2021 down 10.9% flat
61 Saudi Arabia 112.5 g/cap/d 2021 up 7.0% rising
62 Dominican Republic 112.1 g/cap/d 2021 up 14.9% rising
63 Slovenia 111.1 g/cap/d 2021 down 9.0% flat
64 Grenada 111 g/cap/d 2021 up 45.3% rising
65 Costa Rica 110.7 g/cap/d 2021 up 15.9% rising
66 Armenia 110.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 14.6% rising
67 Bahamas 110.4 g/cap/d 2021 up 15.1% rising
68 Cyprus 109.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 5.2% flat
69 Mauritius 109.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 18.2% rising
70 Samoa 109 g/cap/d 2021 down 12.3% falling
71 Libya 108.4 g/cap/d 2021 up 11.5% rising
72 Mexico 107.7 g/cap/d 2021 up 15.1% rising
73 Colombia 104.7 g/cap/d 2021 up 22.5% rising
74 Uzbekistan 104.5 g/cap/d 2021 up 18.9% rising
75 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 104.3 g/cap/d 2021 up 33.2% rising
76 Trinidad and Tobago 104.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 6.5% rising
77 Ecuador 103.4 g/cap/d 2021 up 5.0% rising
78 Barbados 103.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 11.7% rising
79 Panama 102.7 g/cap/d 2021 up 18.6% rising
80 Belize 102.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 32.7% rising
81 Malaysia 101.1 g/cap/d 2021 up 16.3% rising
82 Antigua and Barbuda 100.4 g/cap/d 2021 up 6.6% rising
83 Tunisia 99.5 g/cap/d 2021 up 5.3% rising
84 Algeria 99.4 g/cap/d 2021 up 2.5% rising
84 Oman 99.4 g/cap/d 2021 up 15.9% rising
86 Azerbaijan 98.1 g/cap/d 2021 up 37.2% rising
87 China 97.5 g/cap/d 2021 up 18.0% rising
88 Chile 97.1 g/cap/d 2021 up 23.2% rising
89 China, mainland 96.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 18.5% rising
90 Bosnia and Herzegovina 94.9 g/cap/d 2021 up 18.6% rising
91 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 93.1 g/cap/d 2021 down 12.1% rising
92 Saint Lucia 91.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 26.5% rising
93 Lebanon 90.5 g/cap/d 2021 down 14.8% falling
94 Fiji 90.4 g/cap/d 2021 up 16.9% falling
95 Republic of Moldova 89.8 g/cap/d 2021 unchanged rising
96 Georgia 89.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 22.4% rising
97 Paraguay 89.2 g/cap/d 2021 down 15.5% flat
98 Honduras 88.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 9.6% rising
99 Japan 87.8 g/cap/d 2007 down 2.0% flat
100 Pakistan 86.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 18.3% rising
101 Jamaica 86.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 11.7% flat
102 Turkmenistan 85.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 2.0% rising
103 Seychelles 85.3 g/cap/d 2021 up 23.6% rising
104 Jordan 85 g/cap/d 2021 down 5.0% falling
105 Tajikistan 83.9 g/cap/d 2021 up 36.9% rising
106 Zimbabwe 81.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 10.5% rising
107 Ukraine 80.9 g/cap/d 2021 down 10.3% flat
108 Brunei Darussalam 80.5 g/cap/d 2007 up 5.9% flat
109 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 80.1 g/cap/d 2021 up 14.6% rising
110 Kyrgyzstan 80 g/cap/d 2021 up 15.4% rising
111 Caribbean 79.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 6.6% rising
112 Cuba 79.2 g/cap/d 2017 up 29.8% rising
112 Dominica 79.2 g/cap/d 2007 down 7.6% falling
114 Indonesia 79.1 g/cap/d 2021 up 70.5% rising
114 Cabo Verde 79.1 g/cap/d 2021 up 16.3% rising
116 Guinea-Bissau 79 g/cap/d 2021 up 31.4% rising
117 Maldives 76.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 35.8% rising
118 Morocco 76 g/cap/d 2021 up 12.1% rising
119 El Salvador 74.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 22.6% rising
120 Senegal 74.4 g/cap/d 2021 down 3.8% rising
121 Guyana 73.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 30.5% rising
122 Guatemala 72.9 g/cap/d 2021 up 17.6% rising
123 Suriname 69.7 g/cap/d 2021 down 9.6% flat
124 Melanesia 68.8 g/cap/d 2021 down 3.1% falling
124 Viet Nam 68.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 26.2% rising
126 Mauritania 68.7 g/cap/d 2021 down 14.8% flat
126 Syrian Arab Republic 68.7 g/cap/d 2021 down 30.2% falling
128 Peru 68.4 g/cap/d 2021 up 20.6% rising
129 Botswana 67.5 g/cap/d 2021 up 5.3% rising
130 Nicaragua 66 g/cap/d 2021 up 12.6% rising
131 Papua New Guinea 65.1 g/cap/d 2021 down 5.4% falling
132 Namibia 65 g/cap/d 2021 up 8.5% rising
133 Djibouti 64.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 14.3% rising
134 Gabon 64.1 g/cap/d 2021 up 9.8% rising
134 Nepal 64.1 g/cap/d 2021 up 17.0% rising
136 Guinea 63.8 g/cap/d 2021 down 8.1% rising
137 Iraq 63.6 g/cap/d 2021 down 7.3% rising
138 India 63.4 g/cap/d 2021 up 27.3% rising
139 Nigeria 63 g/cap/d 2021 up 3.4% flat
140 Sao Tome and Principe 62.6 g/cap/d 2021 down 5.3% falling
141 Mali 62.1 g/cap/d 2007 up 12.9% rising
142 Thailand 60.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 15.6% rising
143 Burkina Faso 60.5 g/cap/d 2021 up 0.2% rising
144 Cameroon 60.4 g/cap/d 2021 down 3.7% rising
145 Eswatini 59 g/cap/d 2021 up 21.4% rising
146 Niger 58.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 11.6% rising
147 Timor-Leste 58.7 g/cap/d 2021 up 10.8% rising
148 Comoros 57.7 g/cap/d 2021 down 11.1% falling
149 Egypt 57.4 g/cap/d 2021 down 0.3% flat
149 Myanmar 57.4 g/cap/d 2021 down 20.9% rising
151 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 57.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 2.0% rising
152 United Republic of Tanzania 57 g/cap/d 2021 up 5.0% rising
153 Philippines 56.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 17.2% rising
154 Solomon Islands 54.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 14.9% rising
155 Congo 54.4 g/cap/d 2021 up 27.4% flat
156 Côte d'Ivoire 54 g/cap/d 2021 down 3.9% falling
157 Uganda 53.2 g/cap/d 2021 down 5.2% rising
158 Angola 50.7 g/cap/d 2021 down 8.8% rising
158 Kenya 50.7 g/cap/d 2021 up 6.1% rising
160 Chad 50.2 g/cap/d 2007 down 19.2% falling
161 Zambia 50.1 g/cap/d 2021 up 2.7% rising
162 Ghana 49.2 g/cap/d 2021 up 9.8% flat
163 Gambia 49 g/cap/d 2021 down 33.1% falling
164 Benin 47.9 g/cap/d 2007 down 1.2% falling
165 Togo 47 g/cap/d 2007 up 1.3% flat
166 Malawi 45 g/cap/d 2021 up 26.1% rising
167 Ethiopia 44.4 g/cap/d 2021 up 36.2% rising
168 Afghanistan 43.3 g/cap/d 2021 up 16.7% rising
169 Sri Lanka 43.1 g/cap/d 2021 up 11.4% flat
170 Bangladesh 42.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 49.0% rising
171 Lao People's Democratic Republic 42.5 g/cap/d 2021 up 22.5% rising
172 Mozambique 42.4 g/cap/d 2021 up 4.4% rising
173 Liberia 41.6 g/cap/d 2021 down 27.9% falling
174 Yemen 40.5 g/cap/d 2021 down 5.4% falling
175 Haiti 40.3 g/cap/d 2021 down 26.2% rising
176 Lesotho 38.3 g/cap/d 2021 up 16.4% rising
177 Sierra Leone 37.7 g/cap/d 2021 down 24.1% falling
178 Rwanda 36.8 g/cap/d 2021 up 44.9% rising
179 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 34 g/cap/d 2016 down 1.2% falling
180 Cambodia 33.6 g/cap/d 2021 up 2.4% rising
181 Madagascar 21.8 g/cap/d 2021 down 3.1% falling
182 Democratic Republic of the Congo 21.1 g/cap/d 2021 down 17.6% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Average fat supply (g/cap/day) (3-year average) — Value
Unit
g/cap/d
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
222 places, 4,679 data points, 2000–2021
Last refreshed

The Suite of Food Security Indicators presents the core set of food security indicators. Following the recommendation of experts gathered in the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Round Table on hunger measurement, hosted at FAO headquarters in September 2011, an initial set of indicators aiming to capture various aspects of food insecurity is presented here. The choice of the indicators has been informed by expert judgement and the availability of data with sufficient coverage to enable comparisons across regions and over time. Many of these indicators are produced and published elsewhere by FAO and other international organizations. They are reported here in a single database with the aim of building a wide food security information system. More indicators will be added to this set as more data will become available. Indicators are classified along the four dimensions of food security -- availability, access, utilization and stability.