Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply was 1,496 kcal/cap/d in 2023. ▲ Rising
Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in Sri Lanka, 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 Sri Lanka is 1,496 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2023.
That represents a change of up 1.4% on the previous year and down 2.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Sri Lanka peaked at 1,845 kcal/cap/d in 2015 and was at its lowest, 1,475 kcal/cap/d, in 2022.
Sri Lanka ranks 21st of 164 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 14 years of available data.
Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in Sri Lanka, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,479 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 1,480 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2012 | 1,490 kcal/cap/d | +0.7% |
| 2013 | 1,535 kcal/cap/d | +3.0% |
| 2014 | 1,551 kcal/cap/d | +1.0% |
| 2015 | 1,845 kcal/cap/d | +19.0% |
| 2016 | 1,581 kcal/cap/d | -14.3% |
| 2017 | 1,556 kcal/cap/d | -1.6% |
| 2018 | 1,621 kcal/cap/d | +4.2% |
| 2019 | 1,594 kcal/cap/d | -1.7% |
| 2020 | 1,784 kcal/cap/d | +12.0% |
| 2021 | 1,724 kcal/cap/d | -3.4% |
| 2022 | 1,475 kcal/cap/d | -14.5% |
| 2023 | 1,496 kcal/cap/d | +1.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,573 kcal/cap/d | 1,479 kcal/cap/d | 1,845 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,620 kcal/cap/d | 1,475 kcal/cap/d | 1,784 kcal/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Sri Lanka
- 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
- 20 Democratic Republic of the Congo 319.07 kcal/cap/d compare
- 20 Mauritania 1,539 kcal/cap/d compare
- 22 Algeria 1,487 kcal/cap/d compare
- 23 Guinea-Bissau 1,449 kcal/cap/d compare
- 24 Thailand 1,411 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 9.1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0836 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 418.3 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.9172 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7955 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 8.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Sri Lanka?
- Cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Sri Lanka was 1,496 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 Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 1,845 kcal/cap/d in 2015.
- What is the lowest cereals - excluding beer — food supply recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,475 kcal/cap/d in 2022.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for cereals - excluding beer — food supply?
- Sri Lanka ranks 21st out of 164 countries with data for 2023.
- Is cereals - excluding beer — food supply rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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.