Bovine Meat — 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
Bovine Meat — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 169 countries. The highest value is 275.26 kcal/cap/d in Argentina; the lowest is 0.91 kcal/cap/d in Poland.
The median across all reporting countries is 37.14 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 50.3 kcal/cap/d.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 302.
Over the past decade 68 countries rose and 93 fell. The largest increase was in Botswana (up 667.5%), and the largest decrease in Poland (down 94.9%).
Bovine Meat — Food supply: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argentina | 275.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.5% | falling |
| 2 | Zimbabwe | 253.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.7% | falling |
| 2 | Türkiye | 108.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 73.3% | rising |
| 3 | Uzbekistan | 180.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 18.9% | rising |
| 4 | Mongolia | 171.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 70.2% | rising |
| 5 | Brazil | 169.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.3% | falling |
| 6 | Israel | 143.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 7 | Luxembourg | 140.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.6% | falling |
| 8 | Turkmenistan | 132.28 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 6.2% | flat |
| 9 | Belarus | 128.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 52.3% | rising |
| 10 | Ireland | 123.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 12.4% | rising |
| 11 | Tajikistan | 123.49 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 166.9% | volatile |
| 12 | Armenia | 119.73 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 9.3% | rising |
| 12 | Viet Nam | 24.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 21.9% | rising |
| 13 | Uruguay | 116.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 27.7% | falling |
| 14 | Chile | 115.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.3% | rising |
| 15 | Portugal | 107.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 22.1% | rising |
| 16 | Kazakhstan | 104.44 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.0% | rising |
| 17 | Botswana | 100.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 667.5% | volatile |
| 17 | Timor-Leste | 7.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 6.3% | flat |
| 18 | Australia | 99.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.8% | falling |
| 19 | New Caledonia | 95.45 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.2% | flat |
| 20 | Canada | 95.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.2% | falling |
| 20 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 23.1% | rising |
| 21 | Australia and New Zealand | 93.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.3% | falling |
| 22 | French Polynesia | 91.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 27.8% | falling |
| 23 | Kyrgyzstan | 90.1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 24 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 89.55 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.3% | flat |
| 25 | South Africa | 88.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.5% | falling |
| 26 | Finland | 85.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.6% | flat |
| 26 | Cabo Verde | 14.79 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 54.5% | rising |
| 27 | Iceland | 84.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 29.2% | rising |
| 28 | Sweden | 84.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.7% | falling |
| 29 | France | 83.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.7% | falling |
| 30 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 82.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 56.4% | rising |
| 31 | Republic of Korea | 82.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 26.5% | rising |
| 32 | Croatia | 80.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 16.6% | rising |
| 33 | Azerbaijan | 77.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.5% | rising |
| 34 | Albania | 77.79 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.8% | falling |
| 35 | Italy | 76.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.3% | falling |
| 36 | Denmark | 75.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.1% | falling |
| 37 | Guatemala | 73.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 15.5% | falling |
| 38 | Montenegro | 72.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 39 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 71.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 40.4% | rising |
| 40 | Colombia | 71.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 26.5% | falling |
| 41 | China, Macao SAR | 69.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 59.0% | rising |
| 42 | Russian Federation | 68.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.0% | falling |
| 43 | Tonga | 67.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 44 | Marshall Islands | 67.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 45 | Ecuador | 66.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 29.1% | falling |
| 46 | Lebanon | 65.97 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.1% | falling |
| 47 | Eswatini | 65.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.3% | falling |
| 48 | Switzerland | 65.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 9.0% | falling |
| 49 | New Zealand | 62.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.0% | flat |
| 50 | Mexico | 62.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.4% | falling |
| 51 | Malta | 61.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.6% | falling |
| 52 | Serbia | 60.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 20.8% | falling |
| 53 | Bahrain | 59.15 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 54 | Norway | 59.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.4% | flat |
| 55 | Panama | 58.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.9% | falling |
| 56 | Naoero | 58.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 57 | Zambia | 56.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.8% | falling |
| 58 | Costa Rica | 56.73 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.5% | falling |
| 59 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 56.44 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.4% | falling |
| 60 | Qatar | 54.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 61 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 54.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 31.3% | rising |
| 62 | Samoa | 53.3 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.6% | falling |
| 63 | Austria | 52.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.7% | falling |
| 64 | Antigua and Barbuda | 51.89 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 21.4% | rising |
| 65 | Greece | 51.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.9% | falling |
| 66 | Seychelles | 49.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 102.5% | rising |
| 67 | North Macedonia | 47.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 68 | Germany | 47.31 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 69 | Spain | 45.77 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.8% | flat |
| 70 | Belgium | 45.71 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.1% | falling |
| 71 | El Salvador | 44.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 44.1% | rising |
| 72 | Cuba | 44.31 kcal/cap/d | 2019 | up 23.3% | rising |
| 73 | Bahamas | 44.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 48.4% | falling |
| 74 | Barbados | 43.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 9.8% | flat |
| 75 | Kuwait | 40.96 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.7% | rising |
| 76 | Vanuatu | 40.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 27.2% | falling |
| 77 | United Arab Emirates | 39.51 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 153.9% | rising |
| 78 | Morocco | 39.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 79 | Georgia | 39.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 20.8% | flat |
| 80 | Czechia | 38.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 32.9% | rising |
| 81 | Latvia | 38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 52.2% | rising |
| 82 | China | 37.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 52.0% | rising |
| 82 | China, mainland | 37.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 53.4% | rising |
| 84 | Pakistan | 37.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.4% | rising |
| 85 | Slovenia | 35.83 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 46.0% | falling |
| 86 | Guinea | 35.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.7% | flat |
| 87 | Mauritania | 34.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.4% | falling |
| 88 | Cyprus | 34.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 29.7% | rising |
| 89 | Dominican Republic | 34.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 39.2% | falling |
| 90 | Ukraine | 33.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 31.1% | falling |
| 91 | Estonia | 33.36 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.1% | falling |
| 92 | Djibouti | 33.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 26.0% | falling |
| 93 | Jordan | 32.87 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 33.3% | rising |
| 94 | Maldives | 32.44 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.4% | rising |
| 95 | Burkina Faso | 32.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.0% | falling |
| 96 | China, Taiwan Province of | 32.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 54.3% | rising |
| 97 | Egypt | 32.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 31.0% | falling |
| 98 | Senegal | 31.31 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.8% | flat |
| 99 | Bhutan | 31.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 100 | Grenada | 30.54 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 96.0% | rising |
| 101 | Malaysia | 29.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 102 | Cambodia | 28.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 40.7% | falling |
| 103 | Saudi Arabia | 28.64 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.1% | falling |
| 104 | Mauritius | 28.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.9% | flat |
| 105 | Trinidad and Tobago | 27.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.0% | rising |
| 106 | Oman | 27.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 60.9% | falling |
| 107 | Uganda | 27.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.9% | falling |
| 108 | Honduras | 26.49 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.3% | falling |
| 109 | Jamaica | 25.88 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 31.8% | rising |
| 110 | Saint Lucia | 25.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 13.9% | flat |
| 111 | Paraguay | 25.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 71.9% | falling |
| 112 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 25.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 55.0% | falling |
| 113 | Haiti | 25.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.8% | falling |
| 114 | Belize | 25.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.6% | flat |
| 115 | Peru | 24.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.3% | falling |
| 116 | Kenya | 24.15 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 54.6% | falling |
| 117 | Cameroon | 24.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.4% | falling |
| 118 | Tunisia | 23.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.5% | falling |
| 119 | Fiji | 23.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 83.9% | rising |
| 120 | Tuvalu | 23.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 121 | Namibia | 23.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.6% | falling |
| 122 | Romania | 22.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 26.9% | falling |
| 123 | Libya | 21.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.2% | falling |
| 124 | Slovakia | 21.56 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 35.5% | rising |
| 125 | Gabon | 20.51 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.6% | falling |
| 126 | Guinea-Bissau | 20.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.8% | falling |
| 127 | Suriname | 20.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 35.7% | falling |
| 128 | Ethiopia | 18.79 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.2% | falling |
| 129 | Angola | 18.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 39.8% | falling |
| 130 | Malawi | 18.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 69.4% | rising |
| 131 | Guyana | 18.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 132 | Algeria | 17.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 38.0% | falling |
| 133 | Lithuania | 17.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 134 | Comoros | 15.7 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.1% | falling |
| 135 | Nicaragua | 15.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.9% | falling |
| 136 | Iraq | 15.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.3% | falling |
| 137 | Niger | 14.8 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.1% | falling |
| 138 | Indonesia | 14.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 15.7% | rising |
| 139 | Rwanda | 14.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.7% | rising |
| 140 | Myanmar | 13.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 62.3% | falling |
| 141 | Philippines | 13.44 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.6% | falling |
| 142 | Kiribati | 13.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.1% | falling |
| 143 | Congo | 11.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 30.9% | falling |
| 144 | Hungary | 11.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.3% | falling |
| 145 | Yemen | 11.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 49.6% | falling |
| 146 | Lesotho | 10.97 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 147 | Sao Tome and Principe | 10.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 77.3% | volatile |
| 148 | Bulgaria | 10.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.5% | falling |
| 149 | Nepal | 10.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 59.2% | falling |
| 150 | Sierra Leone | 9.87 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.8% | flat |
| 151 | Solomon Islands | 9.82 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 52.2% | falling |
| 152 | Afghanistan | 9.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 58.6% | falling |
| 153 | Nigeria | 7.88 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 33.2% | falling |
| 154 | Ghana | 7.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 37.1% | rising |
| 155 | Gambia | 6.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 34.7% | falling |
| 156 | Bangladesh | 6.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 157 | India | 6.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 58.2% | rising |
| 157 | Thailand | 6.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.1% | falling |
| 159 | Sri Lanka | 5.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.5% | falling |
| 160 | Madagascar | 5.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 45.4% | falling |
| 161 | Mozambique | 4.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 51.3% | rising |
| 162 | Papua New Guinea | 3.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 35.6% | falling |
| 163 | Liberia | 1.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 38.5% | rising |
| 164 | Poland | 0.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 94.9% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Central Asia 141.77 kcal/cap/d
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 116.87 kcal/cap/d
- South America 138.53 kcal/cap/d
- United States of America 122.93 kcal/cap/d
- Polynesia 72.58 kcal/cap/d
- Northern America 120.08 kcal/cap/d
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 53.13 kcal/cap/d
- Americas 113.67 kcal/cap/d
- United Republic of Tanzania 44.21 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Africa 82.97 kcal/cap/d
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 41.94 kcal/cap/d
- Oceania 69.1 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia 31.9 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Europe 65.49 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia (Federated States of) 29.39 kcal/cap/d
- Western Europe 64.43 kcal/cap/d
- Asia 26.29 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Europe 63.51 kcal/cap/d
- Small island developing states (SIDS) 25.79 kcal/cap/d
- Central America 58.74 kcal/cap/d
- Middle Africa 25.66 kcal/cap/d
- Europe 58.07 kcal/cap/d
- European Union (27) 55.28 kcal/cap/d
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 20.43 kcal/cap/d
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 55.08 kcal/cap/d
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 17.1 kcal/cap/d
- Western Asia 54.64 kcal/cap/d
- Syrian Arab Republic 10.12 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Europe 47.69 kcal/cap/d
- Melanesia 8.18 kcal/cap/d
- World 40.89 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Asia 38.83 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 4.57 kcal/cap/d
- Caribbean 32.08 kcal/cap/d
- Republic of Moldova 4.53 kcal/cap/d
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 32.06 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Africa 32.01 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Africa 31.01 kcal/cap/d
- Africa 27.38 kcal/cap/d
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 24.97 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.