Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply was 1,592 kcal/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in Burkina Faso, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Burkina Faso is 1,592 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2023.
That represents a change of down 1.0% on the previous year and down 6.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Burkina Faso peaked at 1,703 kcal/cap/d in 2018 and was at its lowest, 1,452 kcal/cap/d, in 2019.
Burkina Faso ranks 16th of 164 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in Burkina Faso, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,647 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 1,609 kcal/cap/d | -2.3% |
| 2012 | 1,679 kcal/cap/d | +4.4% |
| 2013 | 1,695 kcal/cap/d | +1.0% |
| 2014 | 1,678 kcal/cap/d | -1.0% |
| 2015 | 1,687 kcal/cap/d | +0.5% |
| 2016 | 1,684 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 1,663 kcal/cap/d | -1.2% |
| 2018 | 1,703 kcal/cap/d | +2.4% |
| 2019 | 1,452 kcal/cap/d | -14.7% |
| 2020 | 1,473 kcal/cap/d | +1.4% |
| 2021 | 1,600 kcal/cap/d | +8.6% |
| 2022 | 1,607 kcal/cap/d | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 1,592 kcal/cap/d | -1.0% |
Burkina Faso compared with similar countries
- Burkina Faso's 1,592 kcal/cap/d is above the median for low income countries, which is 1,288 kcal/cap/d, 1.2× the median. (14 countries reporting)
- Burkina Faso's 1,592 kcal/cap/d is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 1,151 kcal/cap/d, 1.4× the median. (33 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,650 kcal/cap/d | 1,452 kcal/cap/d | 1,703 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,568 kcal/cap/d | 1,473 kcal/cap/d | 1,607 kcal/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Burkina Faso
- 13 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 970.75 kcal/cap/d compare
- 13 Iraq 1,605 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Azerbaijan 1,596 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Polynesia 916.9 kcal/cap/d compare
- 15 China 1,595 kcal/cap/d compare
- 16 Micronesia 819.85 kcal/cap/d compare
- 17 Saudi Arabia 1,582 kcal/cap/d compare
- 17 Melanesia 622.72 kcal/cap/d compare
- 18 Côte d'Ivoire 1,040 kcal/cap/d compare
- 18 Tunisia 1,561 kcal/cap/d compare
- 19 Micronesia (Federated States of) 531.27 kcal/cap/d compare
- 19 Cambodia 1,541 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 - excluding beer — food supply in Burkina Faso?
- Cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Burkina Faso was 1,592 kcal/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cereals - excluding beer — food supply recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The highest recorded value was 1,703 kcal/cap/d in 2018.
- What is the lowest cereals - excluding beer — food supply recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,452 kcal/cap/d in 2019.
- How does Burkina Faso rank for cereals - excluding beer — food supply?
- Burkina Faso ranks 16th out of 164 countries with data for 2023.
- Is cereals - excluding beer — food supply rising or falling in Burkina Faso?
- Over the last ten years it is down 6.1%. 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 - Excluding Beer — Food supply (kcal/capita/day). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.