Beans — Processing 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
Beans — Processing is currently reported for 9 countries. The highest value is 42 1000 t in Caribbean; the lowest is 2 1000 t in South Africa.
The median across all reporting countries is 13 1000 t, and the mean is 16.89 1000 t.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 21.
Over the past decade 5 countries rose and 1 fell. The largest increase was in China (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in South Africa (down 60.0%).
Beans — Processing: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caribbean | 42 1000 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 1 | Haiti | 42 1000 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 3 | Angola | 31 1000 t | 2023 | up 55.0% | rising |
| 4 | Nepal | 15 1000 t | 2023 | up 36.4% | rising |
| 5 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 13 1000 t | 2023 | up 85.7% | rising |
| 6 | Indonesia | 3 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | falling |
| 7 | China | 2 1000 t | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 7 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 2 1000 t | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 7 | South Africa | 2 1000 t | 2023 | down 60.0% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 151 1000 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 88 1000 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 88 1000 t
- Asia 63 1000 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 57 1000 t
- Americas 55 1000 t
- Eastern Asia 45 1000 t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 42 1000 t
- Africa 34 1000 t
- Middle Africa 31 1000 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 28 1000 t
- Southern Asia 15 1000 t
- South America 13 1000 t
- South-Eastern Asia 3 1000 t
- Southern Africa 2 1000 t
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.