Beverages, Fermented — 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
Beverages, Fermented — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 148 countries. The highest value is 70.24 kcal/cap/d in Cameroon; the lowest is 0 kcal/cap/d in Yemen.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.52 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 4.6 kcal/cap/d.
Over the past decade 82 countries rose and 42 fell. The largest increase was in Vanuatu (up 15,600.0%), and the largest decrease in Estonia (down 100.0%).
Beverages, Fermented — Food supply: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cameroon | 70.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 47.3% | rising |
| 2 | Republic of Korea | 69.45 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 94.9% | rising |
| 3 | Rwanda | 65.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,327.8% | volatile |
| 4 | Uganda | 55.55 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.5% | falling |
| 5 | Eswatini | 55.27 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.8% | rising |
| 6 | Burkina Faso | 47.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 60.6% | falling |
| 7 | Angola | 26.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 5.4% | rising |
| 8 | France | 16.82 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 45.5% | rising |
| 9 | Zambia | 16.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.2% | falling |
| 10 | Botswana | 16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 105.4% | rising |
| 11 | Guinea-Bissau | 13.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.9% | rising |
| 12 | Malawi | 12.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.2% | falling |
| 13 | Ghana | 11.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 31.3% | flat |
| 14 | China, Macao SAR | 10.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 91.6% | rising |
| 15 | Latvia | 9.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 221.0% | volatile |
| 16 | Kenya | 9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 17 | Grenada | 8.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 45.6% | volatile |
| 18 | Namibia | 7.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 55.1% | volatile |
| 19 | Antigua and Barbuda | 7.82 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 768.9% | volatile |
| 20 | Hungary | 7.77 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,892.3% | volatile |
| 21 | Gambia | 7.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 64.2% | volatile |
| 22 | Ethiopia | 7.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.4% | rising |
| 23 | Lesotho | 7.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 63.0% | volatile |
| 24 | Zimbabwe | 6.55 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 15.9% | flat |
| 25 | Barbados | 6.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,239.6% | volatile |
| 26 | Canada | 6.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.3% | falling |
| 27 | Czechia | 4.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 178.5% | volatile |
| 28 | Guyana | 4.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 29 | China, mainland | 3.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.4% | rising |
| 30 | China | 3.84 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.1% | rising |
| 31 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 3.56 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 30.4% | rising |
| 32 | Belarus | 3.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 15.1% | volatile |
| 33 | Nigeria | 3.45 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.6% | volatile |
| 34 | China, Taiwan Province of | 3.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.6% | flat |
| 35 | Vanuatu | 3.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 15,600.0% | volatile |
| 36 | Norway | 3.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 62.0% | rising |
| 37 | Saint Lucia | 3.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 83.5% | volatile |
| 38 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 2.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 110.0% | rising |
| 39 | Montenegro | 2.82 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 91.8% | rising |
| 40 | Slovenia | 2.77 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 116.4% | volatile |
| 41 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 2.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,190.0% | volatile |
| 42 | New Zealand | 2.51 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 130.3% | volatile |
| 43 | Cyprus | 2.49 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 70.5% | rising |
| 44 | Malta | 2.45 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 75.0% | rising |
| 45 | Lithuania | 2.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 433.3% | volatile |
| 46 | Serbia | 2.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 36.3% | flat |
| 47 | Luxembourg | 2.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 300.0% | volatile |
| 48 | Switzerland | 1.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 42.3% | falling |
| 49 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 50 | Australia and New Zealand | 1.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 29.7% | falling |
| 51 | Armenia | 1.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 52 | Iceland | 1.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.8% | falling |
| 53 | Australia | 1.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 42.4% | falling |
| 54 | Seychelles | 1.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.9% | volatile |
| 55 | Paraguay | 1.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 58.4% | rising |
| 56 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 190.5% | volatile |
| 57 | Finland | 1.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2,875.0% | volatile |
| 58 | Portugal | 1.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 63.1% | rising |
| 59 | Lebanon | 1.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 320.0% | rising |
| 60 | Philippines | 1.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 511.8% | volatile |
| 61 | Suriname | 1.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 251.7% | volatile |
| 62 | Bulgaria | 1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 88.7% | volatile |
| 62 | Sweden | 1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,150.0% | volatile |
| 64 | Romania | 0.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 395.0% | volatile |
| 65 | Spain | 0.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.5% | falling |
| 66 | French Polynesia | 0.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 287.5% | volatile |
| 67 | Mozambique | 0.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 160.6% | rising |
| 68 | Mexico | 0.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,316.7% | volatile |
| 69 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0.84 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 40.4% | volatile |
| 70 | Bahamas | 0.83 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.6% | flat |
| 71 | South Africa | 0.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 72.3% | volatile |
| 72 | Greece | 0.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 169.6% | volatile |
| 73 | Israel | 0.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 56.8% | rising |
| 74 | Uruguay | 0.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.3% | falling |
| 75 | Slovakia | 0.51 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 87.8% | volatile |
| 76 | Belize | 0.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 16.3% | volatile |
| 76 | Ukraine | 0.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 525.0% | volatile |
| 78 | North Macedonia | 0.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 30.6% | rising |
| 79 | Argentina | 0.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 184.6% | volatile |
| 79 | Bahrain | 0.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 79 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 164.3% | rising |
| 82 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.36 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 72.9% | volatile |
| 83 | Jamaica | 0.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 84 | Kazakhstan | 0.3 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 130.8% | rising |
| 84 | Solomon Islands | 0.3 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 86 | Georgia | 0.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.6% | rising |
| 87 | Costa Rica | 0.27 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 440.0% | volatile |
| 88 | Denmark | 0.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 83.3% | volatile |
| 89 | Dominican Republic | 0.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 90 | Italy | 0.2 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,900.0% | volatile |
| 91 | Honduras | 0.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 375.0% | volatile |
| 91 | Tunisia | 0.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.8% | rising |
| 93 | Russian Federation | 0.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 70.5% | falling |
| 94 | Panama | 0.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 95 | Chile | 0.15 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 275.0% | volatile |
| 96 | New Caledonia | 0.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 85.1% | volatile |
| 96 | Papua New Guinea | 0.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,300.0% | volatile |
| 98 | Belgium | 0.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 94.6% | volatile |
| 98 | Guatemala | 0.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.4% | falling |
| 100 | Thailand | 0.1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 9.1% | rising |
| 101 | Haiti | 0.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 12.5% | volatile |
| 101 | Mongolia | 0.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 28.6% | volatile |
| 103 | Liberia | 0.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 61.9% | volatile |
| 103 | Maldives | 0.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 103 | Mauritius | 0.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Djibouti | 0.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 600.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Fiji | 0.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 600.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Malaysia | 0.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 36.4% | rising |
| 109 | Azerbaijan | 0.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 500.0% | volatile |
| 109 | Congo | 0.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 200.0% | rising |
| 109 | Sierra Leone | 0.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 66.7% | falling |
| 109 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 200.0% | volatile |
| 113 | Cuba | 0.05 kcal/cap/d | 2019 | down 37.5% | falling |
| 114 | Ecuador | 0.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 114 | Poland | 0.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 99.7% | volatile |
| 114 | El Salvador | 0.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.0% | falling |
| 117 | Myanmar | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 117 | Samoa | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 119 | Albania | 0.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 119 | Germany | 0.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 96.3% | volatile |
| 119 | India | 0.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 119 | Cambodia | 0.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 119 | Marshall Islands | 0.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 119 | Naoero | 0.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 119 | Pakistan | 0.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 90.9% | falling |
| 126 | Austria | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 96.6% | volatile |
| 126 | Colombia | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 126 | Indonesia | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 126 | Mauritania | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 126 | Nicaragua | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 75.0% | falling |
| 126 | Senegal | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 126 | Tonga | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 133 | Afghanistan | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 133 | Bhutan | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 133 | Estonia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 133 | Gabon | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 133 | Croatia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 133 | Ireland | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2021 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 133 | Iraq | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 133 | Kiribati | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 133 | Libya | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 133 | Sri Lanka | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 133 | Niger | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 133 | Oman | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 133 | Peru | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 133 | Tajikistan | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 133 | Turkmenistan | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 133 | Yemen | 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.
- Eastern Africa 17.41 kcal/cap/d
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 12.74 kcal/cap/d
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 12.74 kcal/cap/d
- Africa 11.05 kcal/cap/d
- Western Africa 8.88 kcal/cap/d
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 7.17 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Asia 6.63 kcal/cap/d
- Western Europe 5.94 kcal/cap/d
- Côte d'Ivoire 3.54 kcal/cap/d
- European Union (27) 3.22 kcal/cap/d
- Türkiye 0.19 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Europe 2.84 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.