Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in China, mainland
China, mainland: Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply was 1,612 kcal/cap/d in 2023. ▲ Rising
Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in China, mainland, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
In 2023, cereals - excluding beer — food supply in China, mainland stood at 1,612 kcal/cap/d. That is the highest value across all 14 years on record.
The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 7.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals - excluding beer — food supply in China, mainland peaked at 1,612 kcal/cap/d in 2023 and was at its lowest, 1,506 kcal/cap/d, in 2013.
China, mainland ranks 12th of 164 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 14 years of available data.
Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in China, mainland, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,509 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 1,548 kcal/cap/d | +2.6% |
| 2012 | 1,528 kcal/cap/d | -1.3% |
| 2013 | 1,506 kcal/cap/d | -1.4% |
| 2014 | 1,523 kcal/cap/d | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 1,559 kcal/cap/d | +2.3% |
| 2016 | 1,559 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 1,560 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,570 kcal/cap/d | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 1,551 kcal/cap/d | -1.2% |
| 2020 | 1,594 kcal/cap/d | +2.8% |
| 2021 | 1,589 kcal/cap/d | -0.3% |
| 2022 | 1,608 kcal/cap/d | +1.2% |
| 2023 | 1,612 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,541 kcal/cap/d | 1,506 kcal/cap/d | 1,570 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,601 kcal/cap/d | 1,589 kcal/cap/d | 1,612 kcal/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near China, mainland
- 9 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1,255 kcal/cap/d compare
- 9 Nepal 1,679 kcal/cap/d compare
- 10 Senegal 1,649 kcal/cap/d compare
- 10 United Republic of Tanzania 1,185 kcal/cap/d compare
- 11 Afghanistan 1,641 kcal/cap/d compare
- 11 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1,096 kcal/cap/d compare
- 12 Republic of Moldova 1,026 kcal/cap/d compare
- 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
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Frequently asked questions
- What is cereals - excluding beer — food supply in China, mainland?
- Cereals - excluding beer — food supply in China, mainland was 1,612 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 China, mainland?
- The highest recorded value was 1,612 kcal/cap/d in 2023.
- What is the lowest cereals - excluding beer — food supply recorded in China, mainland?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,506 kcal/cap/d in 2013.
- How does China, mainland rank for cereals - excluding beer — food supply?
- China, mainland ranks 12th out of 164 countries with data for 2023.
- Is cereals - excluding beer — food supply rising or falling in China, mainland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China, mainland 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.