Cereals and their products — Energy supply — Value in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Cereals and their products — Energy supply — Value was 1,589 kcal/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
Cereals and their products — Energy supply — Value in Burkina Faso, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
Burkina Faso recorded 1,589 kcal/cap/d for cereals and their products — energy supply — value in 2023.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.0% on the previous year and down 6.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals and their products — energy supply — value in Burkina Faso peaked at 1,700 kcal/cap/d in 2018 and was at its lowest, 1,451 kcal/cap/d, in 2019.
That places Burkina Faso 14th out of 163 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Cereals and their products — Energy supply — Value in Burkina Faso, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,644 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 1,605 kcal/cap/d | -2.4% |
| 2012 | 1,674 kcal/cap/d | +4.3% |
| 2013 | 1,690 kcal/cap/d | +1.0% |
| 2014 | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | -1.0% |
| 2015 | 1,684 kcal/cap/d | +0.7% |
| 2016 | 1,681 kcal/cap/d | -0.2% |
| 2017 | 1,660 kcal/cap/d | -1.2% |
| 2018 | 1,700 kcal/cap/d | +2.4% |
| 2019 | 1,451 kcal/cap/d | -14.6% |
| 2020 | 1,471 kcal/cap/d | +1.4% |
| 2021 | 1,598 kcal/cap/d | +8.6% |
| 2022 | 1,605 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 1,589 kcal/cap/d | -1.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,646 kcal/cap/d | 1,451 kcal/cap/d | 1,700 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,566 kcal/cap/d | 1,471 kcal/cap/d | 1,605 kcal/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Burkina Faso
- 11 Afghanistan 1,639 kcal/cap/d compare
- 11 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 964 kcal/cap/d compare
- 12 China, mainland 1,611 kcal/cap/d compare
- 12 Micronesia (Federated States of) 451 kcal/cap/d compare
- 13 China 1,593 kcal/cap/d compare
- 13 Democratic Republic of the Congo 314 kcal/cap/d compare
- 15 Saudi Arabia 1,565 kcal/cap/d compare
- 16 Iraq 1,561 kcal/cap/d compare
- 17 Azerbaijan 1,558 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Burkina Faso
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.81 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1994 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 228.86 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.39 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7108 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 19.9% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 19.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 6.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cereals and their products — energy supply — value in Burkina Faso?
- Cereals and their products — energy supply — value in Burkina Faso was 1,589 kcal/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cereals and their products — energy supply — value recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The highest recorded value was 1,700 kcal/cap/d in 2018.
- What is the lowest cereals and their products — energy supply — value recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,451 kcal/cap/d in 2019.
- How does Burkina Faso rank for cereals and their products — energy supply — value?
- Burkina Faso ranks 14th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is cereals and their products — energy supply — value rising or falling in Burkina Faso?
- Over the last ten years it is down 6.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Burkina Faso data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cereals and their products — Energy supply — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The dataset presents average daily per capita macro and micro nutrient availability by country and by FAO/WHO GIFT food groups (that are different from those used for the Food Balance Sheets), expressed in grams/milligrams/micrograms/kcal per capita per day. The population numbers used to calculate these statistics can be found in the Supply Utilization Accounts (SUA) dataset of FAOSTAT, as Total Population. Food availability quantities are derived from the SUA dataset. SUAs present a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply and utilization during a specified reference period. The SUA 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 capita 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.