Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in China
China: Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply was 1,595 kcal/cap/d in 2023. ▲ Rising
Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply 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 - excluding beer — food supply in China is 1,595 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 6.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals - excluding beer — food supply in China peaked at 1,595 kcal/cap/d in 2023 and was at its lowest, 1,493 kcal/cap/d, in 2013.
China ranks 15th 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, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,495 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 1,533 kcal/cap/d | +2.6% |
| 2012 | 1,514 kcal/cap/d | -1.3% |
| 2013 | 1,493 kcal/cap/d | -1.4% |
| 2014 | 1,509 kcal/cap/d | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 1,543 kcal/cap/d | +2.3% |
| 2016 | 1,544 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 1,545 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,554 kcal/cap/d | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 1,536 kcal/cap/d | -1.2% |
| 2020 | 1,578 kcal/cap/d | +2.7% |
| 2021 | 1,572 kcal/cap/d | -0.4% |
| 2022 | 1,591 kcal/cap/d | +1.2% |
| 2023 | 1,595 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,527 kcal/cap/d | 1,493 kcal/cap/d | 1,554 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,584 kcal/cap/d | 1,572 kcal/cap/d | 1,595 kcal/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near China
- 12 China, mainland 1,612 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
- 16 Burkina Faso 1,592 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
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)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 6.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 6.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cereals - excluding beer — food supply in China?
- Cereals - excluding beer — food supply in China was 1,595 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?
- The highest recorded value was 1,595 kcal/cap/d in 2023.
- What is the lowest cereals - excluding beer — food supply recorded in China?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,493 kcal/cap/d in 2013.
- How does China rank for cereals - excluding beer — food supply?
- China ranks 15th out of 164 countries with data for 2023.
- Is cereals - excluding beer — food supply rising or falling in China?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.9%. 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 - 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.