Butter, Ghee — 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
Butter, Ghee — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 164 countries. The highest value is 172.42 kcal/cap/d in Bahrain; the lowest is 0.04 kcal/cap/d in Guinea-Bissau.
The median across all reporting countries is 18.8 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 33.25 kcal/cap/d.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4,310.
Over the past decade 92 countries rose and 64 fell. The largest increase was in Vanuatu (up 465.1%), and the largest decrease in Ghana (down 86.9%).
Butter, Ghee — Food supply: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bahrain | 172.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 2 | France | 167.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 3 | Belgium | 148.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 4 | Ireland | 144.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 134.2% | rising |
| 5 | Denmark | 131.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 69.2% | rising |
| 6 | Iceland | 129.88 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 7 | Pakistan | 113.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.3% | rising |
| 8 | Germany | 112.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 5.4% | rising |
| 9 | Austria | 112.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 10 | Belarus | 111.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 56.9% | rising |
| 11 | Poland | 111.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 37.7% | rising |
| 12 | Switzerland | 107.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.1% | falling |
| 13 | Finland | 97.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.7% | falling |
| 14 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 96.79 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 276.9% | rising |
| 15 | Lithuania | 94.51 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 80.0% | rising |
| 16 | Sweden | 94.44 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 17 | India | 90.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 30.3% | rising |
| 18 | Czechia | 88.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.6% | falling |
| 19 | Azerbaijan | 83.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 26.4% | rising |
| 20 | French Polynesia | 82.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.6% | falling |
| 21 | New Zealand | 80.7 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 64.1% | falling |
| 22 | Slovakia | 78.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 45.4% | rising |
| 23 | Mongolia | 78.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 37.8% | falling |
| 24 | Australia and New Zealand | 78.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.9% | falling |
| 25 | Australia | 77.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.0% | flat |
| 26 | Canada | 77.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 41.0% | rising |
| 27 | Uruguay | 76.87 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 44.8% | rising |
| 28 | Latvia | 76.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 119.8% | rising |
| 29 | Estonia | 74.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 128.8% | rising |
| 30 | Fiji | 72.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.0% | falling |
| 31 | Luxembourg | 66.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 67.5% | rising |
| 32 | Uzbekistan | 61.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 41.4% | rising |
| 33 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 60.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.8% | flat |
| 34 | Norway | 60.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.1% | falling |
| 35 | Russian Federation | 56.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 36 | Portugal | 55.71 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 22.1% | rising |
| 37 | Bhutan | 53.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 38 | Slovenia | 53.15 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.0% | falling |
| 39 | Italy | 51.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.3% | flat |
| 40 | Nepal | 51.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 32.2% | rising |
| 41 | Bahamas | 50.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.4% | falling |
| 42 | Seychelles | 49.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 276.9% | rising |
| 43 | Montenegro | 49.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.0% | rising |
| 44 | North Macedonia | 49.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.5% | falling |
| 45 | Qatar | 46.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 46 | Maldives | 45.7 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 32.7% | rising |
| 47 | Panama | 44.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 8.7% | rising |
| 48 | New Caledonia | 43.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.1% | falling |
| 49 | Kuwait | 42.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.2% | flat |
| 50 | Croatia | 42.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 74.4% | rising |
| 51 | Tonga | 41.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 52 | Kazakhstan | 38.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 45.9% | rising |
| 53 | Republic of Korea | 37.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 27.2% | rising |
| 54 | Chile | 34.8 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 38.4% | rising |
| 55 | United Arab Emirates | 34.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 46.2% | rising |
| 56 | Antigua and Barbuda | 33.83 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 44.0% | rising |
| 57 | Costa Rica | 33.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 27.8% | rising |
| 58 | Georgia | 33.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 159.9% | rising |
| 59 | Israel | 31.84 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 67.5% | rising |
| 60 | Saudi Arabia | 31.71 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.5% | falling |
| 61 | Spain | 31.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 108.8% | rising |
| 62 | Hungary | 30.55 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 82.9% | rising |
| 63 | Romania | 30.28 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 87.1% | rising |
| 64 | Serbia | 27.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 74.1% | rising |
| 65 | Bulgaria | 27.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 82.4% | rising |
| 66 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 26.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 67 | Oman | 25.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 90.7% | volatile |
| 67 | Samoa | 25.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 69 | Greece | 25.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.9% | rising |
| 70 | Cyprus | 25.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 32.1% | rising |
| 71 | Ukraine | 23.87 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 46.7% | falling |
| 72 | Morocco | 23.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 42.0% | falling |
| 73 | Barbados | 22.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 46.6% | rising |
| 74 | Armenia | 22.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 39.2% | falling |
| 75 | China, Taiwan Province of | 21.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 37.5% | rising |
| 76 | Mauritius | 21.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.7% | rising |
| 77 | Afghanistan | 21.36 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.0% | falling |
| 78 | Albania | 20.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.5% | flat |
| 79 | Malta | 20.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.4% | flat |
| 80 | Egypt | 20.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 40.5% | falling |
| 81 | China, Macao SAR | 19.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 16.5% | flat |
| 82 | Libya | 19.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 156.7% | volatile |
| 83 | Grenada | 18.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 249.4% | rising |
| 84 | Tunisia | 18.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 41.8% | rising |
| 85 | Trinidad and Tobago | 17.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.9% | rising |
| 86 | Niger | 17.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.7% | rising |
| 87 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 16.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 50.2% | volatile |
| 88 | Brazil | 14.79 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 46.7% | rising |
| 89 | Mauritania | 14.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 55.1% | rising |
| 90 | Tuvalu | 14.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 91 | Nauru | 13.49 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 92 | Honduras | 13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.9% | falling |
| 93 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 12.89 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 9.9% | falling |
| 94 | Argentina | 11.89 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 33.4% | falling |
| 95 | Lebanon | 11.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 46.3% | falling |
| 96 | Malaysia | 11.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 59.3% | rising |
| 97 | Jordan | 10.77 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 57.2% | rising |
| 98 | Kyrgyzstan | 10.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 103.6% | rising |
| 99 | Marshall Islands | 10.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 100 | Namibia | 9.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 51.7% | rising |
| 101 | Colombia | 9.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.2% | falling |
| 102 | Saint Lucia | 8.44 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 43.3% | falling |
| 103 | Jamaica | 8.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 35.0% | rising |
| 104 | Dominican Republic | 8.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 49.8% | rising |
| 105 | Turkmenistan | 8.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 35.1% | falling |
| 106 | Mexico | 7.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.5% | falling |
| 107 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 7.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 97.4% | rising |
| 108 | Kenya | 7.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.8% | flat |
| 109 | Belize | 7.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 40.6% | rising |
| 110 | Suriname | 7.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 111 | Iraq | 7.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 62.4% | rising |
| 112 | Myanmar | 6.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 56.3% | falling |
| 113 | Peru | 6.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 104.2% | volatile |
| 114 | Botswana | 6.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.9% | falling |
| 115 | Guyana | 5.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 108.8% | rising |
| 116 | South Africa | 5.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.4% | falling |
| 117 | Yemen | 5.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 150.2% | rising |
| 118 | Bangladesh | 5.56 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 16.1% | rising |
| 119 | Thailand | 5.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.7% | rising |
| 120 | Kiribati | 5.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.9% | volatile |
| 121 | Guatemala | 4.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.7% | falling |
| 122 | China | 4.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 53.0% | rising |
| 123 | Nicaragua | 4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 34.2% | rising |
| 124 | Eswatini | 3.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.5% | falling |
| 125 | Ethiopia | 3.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.1% | falling |
| 126 | Philippines | 3.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.7% | rising |
| 127 | China, mainland | 3.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 58.5% | rising |
| 128 | Vanuatu | 3.56 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 465.1% | volatile |
| 129 | El Salvador | 3.54 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 82.5% | rising |
| 130 | Algeria | 3.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 71.8% | falling |
| 131 | Gabon | 3.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.4% | falling |
| 132 | Ecuador | 2.83 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.3% | falling |
| 133 | Rwanda | 2.8 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 29.6% | falling |
| 134 | Zimbabwe | 2.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.9% | falling |
| 135 | Paraguay | 2.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.5% | volatile |
| 136 | Burkina Faso | 2.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 87.9% | rising |
| 137 | Sri Lanka | 2.55 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 96.2% | rising |
| 138 | Gambia | 2.28 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 18.1% | volatile |
| 139 | Cuba | 2.04 kcal/cap/d | 2019 | down 65.4% | falling |
| 140 | Zambia | 1.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 141 | Senegal | 1.79 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.0% | falling |
| 142 | Djibouti | 1.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.3% | falling |
| 143 | Indonesia | 1.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.0% | rising |
| 143 | Lesotho | 1.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 36.1% | volatile |
| 145 | Sao Tome and Principe | 1.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 75.1% | volatile |
| 145 | Uganda | 1.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 180.0% | volatile |
| 147 | Nigeria | 1.15 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 41.9% | falling |
| 148 | Solomon Islands | 1.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.4% | falling |
| 149 | Papua New Guinea | 1.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 23.9% | flat |
| 150 | Congo | 0.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 31.4% | falling |
| 151 | Guinea | 0.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.9% | falling |
| 152 | Angola | 0.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 55.3% | falling |
| 153 | Cambodia | 0.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 12.7% | volatile |
| 154 | Tajikistan | 0.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 44.1% | volatile |
| 155 | Mozambique | 0.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.6% | falling |
| 156 | Liberia | 0.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 22.2% | volatile |
| 157 | Ghana | 0.2 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 86.9% | falling |
| 158 | Cameroon | 0.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 34.6% | falling |
| 159 | Haiti | 0.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 42.1% | volatile |
| 160 | Sierra Leone | 0.1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 161 | Madagascar | 0.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 52.6% | volatile |
| 162 | Malawi | 0.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 58.8% | falling |
| 163 | Comoros | 0.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 75.0% | volatile |
| 164 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 300.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Western Europe 131.43 kcal/cap/d
- Polynesia 54.21 kcal/cap/d
- European Union (27) 91.76 kcal/cap/d
- Republic of Moldova 49.83 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Asia 80.94 kcal/cap/d
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 46.02 kcal/cap/d
- Europe 77.42 kcal/cap/d
- Asia 39.6 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Europe 75.35 kcal/cap/d
- Türkiye 36.69 kcal/cap/d
- Northern America 61.39 kcal/cap/d
- United Republic of Tanzania 20.18 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Europe 59.74 kcal/cap/d
- Syrian Arab Republic 16.07 kcal/cap/d
- United States of America 59.53 kcal/cap/d
- Melanesia 7.27 kcal/cap/d
- Oceania 57.38 kcal/cap/d
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 6.52 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Europe 40.71 kcal/cap/d
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 5.96 kcal/cap/d
- Central Asia 38.47 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia 4.08 kcal/cap/d
- World 35.65 kcal/cap/d
- Viet Nam 3.98 kcal/cap/d
- Americas 29.75 kcal/cap/d
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2.56 kcal/cap/d
- Western Asia 26.37 kcal/cap/d
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2.36 kcal/cap/d
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 22.18 kcal/cap/d
- Timor-Leste 0.44 kcal/cap/d
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 14.28 kcal/cap/d
- Middle Africa 0.34 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Africa 13.97 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.33 kcal/cap/d
- South America 12.7 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 0.28 kcal/cap/d
- Central America 9.07 kcal/cap/d
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.27 kcal/cap/d
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 8.14 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.11 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.