Bananas — Food supply (kcal/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...
What the numbers show
Bananas — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 161 countries. The highest value is 193.65 kcal/cap/d in Papua New Guinea; the lowest is 0 kcal/cap/d in Turkmenistan.
The median across all reporting countries is 17.13 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 23.83 kcal/cap/d.
Over the past decade 87 countries rose and 62 fell. The largest increase was in Uzbekistan (up 2,800.0%), and the largest decrease in Gambia (down 100.0%).
Bananas — Food supply: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Papua New Guinea | 193.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.2% | falling |
| 2 | Comoros | 159.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 40.0% | rising |
| 3 | Samoa | 137.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.3% | falling |
| 4 | Dominican Republic | 122.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 5 | Peru | 111.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.6% | flat |
| 6 | Vanuatu | 93.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.4% | falling |
| 7 | Kiribati | 91.3 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.9% | flat |
| 8 | Kenya | 86.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 71.9% | rising |
| 9 | Malawi | 84.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 113.4% | rising |
| 10 | Angola | 81.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 13.0% | rising |
| 11 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 60.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.7% | rising |
| 12 | Indonesia | 58.51 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 46.1% | rising |
| 13 | Nigeria | 57.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 14 | Bahamas | 52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 12.1% | rising |
| 15 | Tuvalu | 51.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 16 | Brazil | 49.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.3% | falling |
| 17 | Philippines | 47.89 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 35.0% | falling |
| 18 | Liberia | 43.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.4% | falling |
| 19 | Jamaica | 38.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 65.7% | rising |
| 20 | Cuba | 38.23 kcal/cap/d | 2019 | up 18.2% | rising |
| 21 | Israel | 36.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 31.1% | rising |
| 22 | Cameroon | 36.54 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 62.3% | falling |
| 23 | India | 36.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 18.4% | rising |
| 24 | Rwanda | 36.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 89.3% | volatile |
| 25 | Sao Tome and Principe | 35.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 88.9% | volatile |
| 26 | Croatia | 35.31 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 56.5% | rising |
| 27 | Portugal | 34.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 46.0% | rising |
| 28 | Guyana | 34.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 222.7% | rising |
| 29 | Malta | 32.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 157.5% | rising |
| 30 | Zimbabwe | 30.83 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 160.8% | rising |
| 31 | Finland | 30.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 7.3% | rising |
| 32 | Austria | 29.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 39.0% | rising |
| 33 | Iceland | 29.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 27.5% | falling |
| 34 | Seychelles | 28.97 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 13.4% | falling |
| 35 | Belgium | 28.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 258.4% | rising |
| 36 | Mexico | 28.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.5% | flat |
| 37 | Norway | 27.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 9.9% | falling |
| 38 | Greece | 27.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 89.3% | rising |
| 39 | Australia | 27.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 40 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 27.27 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 125.6% | rising |
| 41 | Australia and New Zealand | 27.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 42 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 26.96 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 192.1% | rising |
| 43 | New Zealand | 26.31 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.4% | rising |
| 44 | Uruguay | 25.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.7% | rising |
| 45 | China, Taiwan Province of | 25.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 30.2% | rising |
| 46 | Haiti | 25.88 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.4% | falling |
| 47 | Nepal | 25.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 133.5% | rising |
| 48 | Canada | 25.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.4% | falling |
| 49 | Colombia | 24.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 67.9% | volatile |
| 50 | Estonia | 24.1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 75.1% | rising |
| 51 | Congo | 23.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.0% | falling |
| 52 | Argentina | 23.88 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 53 | Ireland | 23.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 54 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 23.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 29.2% | falling |
| 55 | Denmark | 23.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.5% | falling |
| 56 | Guinea | 22.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 13.4% | falling |
| 57 | Fiji | 22.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 165.3% | rising |
| 58 | Switzerland | 22.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 59 | Latvia | 21.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 93.9% | rising |
| 60 | Italy | 21.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 21.2% | rising |
| 61 | Libya | 21.45 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 18.2% | volatile |
| 62 | Madagascar | 21.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.4% | falling |
| 63 | Germany | 21.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.8% | flat |
| 64 | Czechia | 21.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 46.1% | rising |
| 65 | Thailand | 20.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 44.2% | falling |
| 66 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 20.87 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2,168.5% | volatile |
| 67 | France | 20.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 135.2% | rising |
| 68 | Grenada | 20.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 66.5% | falling |
| 69 | United Arab Emirates | 20.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 60.5% | falling |
| 70 | Slovenia | 20.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.4% | flat |
| 71 | Serbia | 20.27 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 72.1% | rising |
| 72 | Barbados | 19.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.6% | flat |
| 73 | Russian Federation | 18.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 12.0% | rising |
| 74 | Luxembourg | 18.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.0% | flat |
| 75 | Lithuania | 18.49 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 75.6% | rising |
| 76 | El Salvador | 18.2 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.4% | rising |
| 77 | Panama | 17.54 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.7% | falling |
| 78 | Mauritius | 17.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 16.2% | falling |
| 79 | Georgia | 17.27 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 140.9% | rising |
| 80 | Kuwait | 17.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.8% | volatile |
| 81 | Egypt | 17.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.1% | falling |
| 82 | Cyprus | 16.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 32.3% | flat |
| 83 | Spain | 16.84 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 41.5% | rising |
| 84 | Slovakia | 16.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 44.4% | rising |
| 85 | Saint Lucia | 16.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 71.6% | volatile |
| 86 | South Africa | 15.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 24.9% | rising |
| 87 | Sweden | 15.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.1% | falling |
| 88 | Morocco | 14.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 9.8% | flat |
| 89 | Montenegro | 14.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 37.1% | falling |
| 90 | Lebanon | 14.89 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 755.7% | rising |
| 91 | Romania | 14.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 309.4% | rising |
| 92 | Jordan | 14.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 23.9% | falling |
| 93 | Antigua and Barbuda | 14.36 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 30.6% | rising |
| 94 | Honduras | 14.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 47.0% | volatile |
| 95 | Armenia | 14.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 904.2% | rising |
| 96 | Ecuador | 13.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 59.4% | volatile |
| 97 | China | 13.83 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 98 | China, mainland | 13.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.6% | rising |
| 99 | China, Macao SAR | 13.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 42.9% | rising |
| 100 | Bhutan | 13.45 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 101 | Bulgaria | 13.2 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 35.7% | rising |
| 102 | Malaysia | 12.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.5% | falling |
| 103 | Tonga | 12.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 104 | New Caledonia | 12.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 51.5% | rising |
| 105 | Gabon | 12.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.1% | falling |
| 106 | Trinidad and Tobago | 12.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 30.5% | falling |
| 107 | Ethiopia | 11.88 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 111.0% | rising |
| 108 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 11.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.6% | falling |
| 109 | Paraguay | 11.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 18.7% | rising |
| 110 | Mozambique | 10.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 65.3% | falling |
| 111 | Botswana | 10.97 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 667.1% | volatile |
| 112 | Maldives | 10.89 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 135.2% | falling |
| 113 | Republic of Korea | 10.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.3% | falling |
| 114 | Costa Rica | 10.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 412.6% | volatile |
| 115 | Ukraine | 9.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.7% | rising |
| 116 | Cambodia | 9.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 29.9% | falling |
| 117 | Guatemala | 8.89 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.7% | volatile |
| 118 | Azerbaijan | 8.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 420.6% | volatile |
| 119 | Djibouti | 8.84 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 120 | Hungary | 8.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 51.0% | rising |
| 121 | Belize | 8.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 122 | Poland | 8.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 127.4% | rising |
| 123 | Bangladesh | 8.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.1% | flat |
| 124 | Chile | 8.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 51.4% | falling |
| 125 | Iraq | 7.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 80.9% | volatile |
| 126 | Kyrgyzstan | 7.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 305.6% | volatile |
| 127 | Algeria | 6.97 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 40.2% | falling |
| 128 | Kazakhstan | 6.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 60.0% | rising |
| 129 | Guinea-Bissau | 6.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.0% | falling |
| 130 | Uzbekistan | 6.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2,800.0% | volatile |
| 131 | Oman | 6.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.6% | volatile |
| 132 | Qatar | 6.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 133 | Suriname | 6.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.6% | volatile |
| 134 | Yemen | 5.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 53.1% | rising |
| 135 | Mongolia | 4.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 85.9% | rising |
| 136 | Tajikistan | 4.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,082.0% | volatile |
| 137 | Senegal | 4.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 29.4% | falling |
| 138 | Saudi Arabia | 4.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 66.0% | volatile |
| 139 | Burkina Faso | 3.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 623.1% | volatile |
| 140 | Afghanistan | 2.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 38.1% | rising |
| 141 | Albania | 2.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 76.6% | flat |
| 141 | Marshall Islands | 2.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 143 | Namibia | 2.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 729.0% | rising |
| 144 | Tunisia | 1.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 41.7% | rising |
| 145 | French Polynesia | 1.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 29.4% | rising |
| 146 | Naoero | 1.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 147 | Lesotho | 1.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 262.2% | volatile |
| 148 | Bahrain | 1.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 149 | Pakistan | 0.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 447.1% | rising |
| 150 | Zambia | 0.71 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 102.9% | volatile |
| 151 | Solomon Islands | 0.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.4% | falling |
| 152 | Belarus | 0.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 97.0% | flat |
| 153 | Ghana | 0.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 92.3% | volatile |
| 153 | Uganda | 0.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 98.7% | volatile |
| 155 | Niger | 0.31 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.5% | volatile |
| 156 | Eswatini | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 99.9% | volatile |
| 157 | Gambia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 157 | North Macedonia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 157 | Mauritania | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 157 | Nicaragua | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 157 | Turkmenistan | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 176.01 kcal/cap/d
- Oceania 65.68 kcal/cap/d
- Melanesia 162.46 kcal/cap/d
- Caribbean 50.22 kcal/cap/d
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 69.75 kcal/cap/d
- South-Eastern Asia 42.13 kcal/cap/d
- United Republic of Tanzania 68.08 kcal/cap/d
- South America 41.84 kcal/cap/d
- Polynesia 52.33 kcal/cap/d
- Western Africa 34.13 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia 49.97 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Africa 33.74 kcal/cap/d
- Viet Nam 33.79 kcal/cap/d
- Americas 31.42 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia (Federated States of) 30.64 kcal/cap/d
- Africa 29.04 kcal/cap/d
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 29.7 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Asia 27.07 kcal/cap/d
- Middle Africa 27.63 kcal/cap/d
- World 25.17 kcal/cap/d
- Asia 23.14 kcal/cap/d
- Central America 23.13 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Europe 23 kcal/cap/d
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 20.15 kcal/cap/d
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 22.82 kcal/cap/d
- Türkiye 17.46 kcal/cap/d
- Western Europe 22.4 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 12.63 kcal/cap/d
- Northern America 21.62 kcal/cap/d
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 12.58 kcal/cap/d
- United States of America 21.17 kcal/cap/d
- Republic of Moldova 8.22 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Europe 21.13 kcal/cap/d
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 5.55 kcal/cap/d
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 20.84 kcal/cap/d
- Syrian Arab Republic 1.78 kcal/cap/d
- European Union (27) 20.07 kcal/cap/d
- Timor-Leste 0.61 kcal/cap/d
- Europe 19.3 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 0.33 kcal/cap/d
About this data
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.