Cereals and their products — Energy supply — Value in China
China: Cereals and their products — Energy supply — Value was 1,593 kcal/cap/d in 2023. ▲ Rising
Cereals and their products — Energy supply — Value in China, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cereals and their products — energy supply — value in China is 1,593 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2023. That is the highest value across all 14 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.3% on the previous year and up 6.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals and their products — energy supply — value in China peaked at 1,593 kcal/cap/d in 2023 and was at its lowest, 1,491 kcal/cap/d, in 2013.
China ranks 13th of 163 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 14 years of available data.
Cereals and their products — Energy supply — Value in China, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,493 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 1,532 kcal/cap/d | +2.6% |
| 2012 | 1,512 kcal/cap/d | -1.3% |
| 2013 | 1,491 kcal/cap/d | -1.4% |
| 2014 | 1,507 kcal/cap/d | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 1,541 kcal/cap/d | +2.3% |
| 2016 | 1,542 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 1,543 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,552 kcal/cap/d | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 1,534 kcal/cap/d | -1.2% |
| 2020 | 1,576 kcal/cap/d | +2.7% |
| 2021 | 1,570 kcal/cap/d | -0.4% |
| 2022 | 1,589 kcal/cap/d | +1.2% |
| 2023 | 1,593 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,525 kcal/cap/d | 1,491 kcal/cap/d | 1,552 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,582 kcal/cap/d | 1,570 kcal/cap/d | 1,593 kcal/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near China
- 10 Senegal 1,640 kcal/cap/d compare
- 11 Afghanistan 1,639 kcal/cap/d compare
- 12 China, mainland 1,611 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Burkina Faso 1,589 kcal/cap/d compare
- 15 Saudi Arabia 1,565 kcal/cap/d compare
- 16 Iraq 1,561 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for China
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 1.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0666 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 923.03 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.48 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3366 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 6.66 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.66 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cereals and their products — energy supply — value in China?
- Cereals and their products — energy supply — value in China was 1,593 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 China?
- The highest recorded value was 1,593 kcal/cap/d in 2023.
- What is the lowest cereals and their products — energy supply — value recorded in China?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,491 kcal/cap/d in 2013.
- How does China rank for cereals and their products — energy supply — value?
- China ranks 13th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is cereals and their products — energy supply — value rising or falling in China?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China 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.