Brans — Processing by country
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
Brans — Processing is currently reported for 17 countries. The highest value is 5.57 million t in India; the lowest is 0 t in Indonesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 70,942 t, and the mean is 457,391 t.
Over the past decade 13 countries rose and 2 fell. The largest increase was in Thailand (up 120.7%), and the largest decrease in Myanmar (down 62.8%).
Brans — Processing: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 5.57 million t | 2013 | up 29.8% | volatile |
| 2 | China, mainland | 700,000 t | 2013 | up 40.0% | rising |
| 2 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 75,000 t | 2013 | up 7.1% | volatile |
| 3 | Japan | 338,100 t | 2013 | up 8.9% | falling |
| 4 | Thailand | 320,000 t | 2013 | up 120.7% | volatile |
| 4 | Viet Nam | 70,000 t | 2013 | up 16.7% | volatile |
| 5 | Myanmar | 204,797 t | 2013 | down 62.8% | volatile |
| 5 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 26,634 t | 2013 | up 38.4% | volatile |
| 6 | Republic of Korea | 129,164 t | 2013 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 7 | Brazil | 102,000 t | 2013 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Cambodia | 70,942 t | 2013 | up 83.2% | volatile |
| 9 | Sri Lanka | 67,655 t | 2013 | up 52.1% | rising |
| 10 | Nepal | 44,400 t | 2013 | up 5.7% | rising |
| 11 | Pakistan | 38,475 t | 2013 | up 41.2% | rising |
| 12 | Bangladesh | 18,482 t | 2013 | up 34.7% | rising |
| 13 | Italy | 0 t | 2013 | — | volatile |
| 13 | Indonesia | 0 t | 2013 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 7.78 million t
- Asia 7.67 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries 5.75 million t
- Southern Asia 5.74 million t
- Land Locked Developing Countries 71,034 t
- Eastern Asia 1.24 million t
- South-Eastern Asia 692,373 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries 471,385 t
- Least developed countries 365,255 t
- Americas 102,000 t
- South America 102,000 t
- Southern Europe 0 t
- Europe 0 t
About this data
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 caput 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.