Dates — Processing by country
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...
What the numbers show
Dates — Processing is currently reported for 9 countries. The highest value is 83 1000 t in Oman; the lowest is 1 1000 t in New Zealand.
The median across all reporting countries is 4 1000 t, and the mean is 24.89 1000 t.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 83.
Dates — Processing: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oman | 83 1000 t | 2023 | up 31.7% | rising |
| 2 | Algeria | 64 1000 t | 2023 | up 42.2% | rising |
| 3 | Tunisia | 34 1000 t | 2023 | up 183.3% | rising |
| 4 | Morocco | 32 1000 t | 2023 | up 60.0% | rising |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 4 1000 t | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 5 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 4 1000 t | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 7 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 1 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 7 | Australia and New Zealand | 1 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 7 | New Zealand | 1 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 219 1000 t
- Africa 130 1000 t
- Northern Africa 130 1000 t
- Asia 84 1000 t
- Western Asia 83 1000 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 66 1000 t
- Northern Europe 4 1000 t
- Europe 4 1000 t
- Southern Asia 1 1000 t
- Oceania 1 1000 t
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.