Fish, Seafood — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) 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
Fish, Seafood — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 164 countries. The highest value is 161.18 kcal/cap/d in Iceland; the lowest is 0.82 kcal/cap/d in Afghanistan.
The median across all reporting countries is 31.01 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 37.22 kcal/cap/d.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 197.
Over the past decade 75 countries rose and 82 fell. The largest increase was in Uzbekistan (up 223.4%), and the largest decrease in Yemen (down 56.4%).
Fish, Seafood — Food supply: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iceland | 161.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 5.7% | rising |
| 2 | Maldives | 156.51 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 51.9% | falling |
| 3 | Kiribati | 146.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 4 | Tuvalu | 112.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 5 | Samoa | 108.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 13.6% | rising |
| 6 | Antigua and Barbuda | 96.55 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.6% | flat |
| 7 | Barbados | 95.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 22.4% | rising |
| 8 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 93.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 9 | French Polynesia | 92.79 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 10 | Republic of Korea | 92.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.7% | falling |
| 11 | Malaysia | 90.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.3% | falling |
| 12 | Cambodia | 90.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 13 | Myanmar | 87.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.4% | falling |
| 14 | China, Macao SAR | 86.7 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.8% | flat |
| 15 | Marshall Islands | 86.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 16 | Seychelles | 86.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.7% | falling |
| 17 | Norway | 83.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.4% | falling |
| 18 | Indonesia | 83.54 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.9% | rising |
| 19 | Portugal | 80.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 8.2% | rising |
| 20 | Spain | 69.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.4% | falling |
| 21 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 65.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 8.3% | flat |
| 22 | Thailand | 65.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 21.9% | rising |
| 23 | China, mainland | 64.56 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 16.5% | rising |
| 24 | Vanuatu | 64.55 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.2% | falling |
| 25 | Solomon Islands | 64.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.1% | flat |
| 26 | China | 64.45 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 16.0% | rising |
| 27 | Tonga | 63.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 28 | Latvia | 60.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 30.1% | rising |
| 29 | Lithuania | 58.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.1% | falling |
| 30 | Malta | 57.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.9% | flat |
| 31 | Fiji | 57.7 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.0% | falling |
| 32 | Mauritius | 57.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 20.6% | rising |
| 33 | Gabon | 56.97 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.5% | falling |
| 34 | Finland | 56.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.5% | falling |
| 35 | Sierra Leone | 55.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.6% | falling |
| 36 | Sri Lanka | 55.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.8% | falling |
| 37 | Philippines | 55.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.6% | falling |
| 38 | Jamaica | 55.27 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.5% | rising |
| 39 | Bangladesh | 54.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 26.3% | rising |
| 40 | Italy | 51.89 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.3% | rising |
| 41 | Denmark | 51.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.6% | falling |
| 42 | Sweden | 51.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.8% | flat |
| 43 | France | 50.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.8% | flat |
| 44 | Ghana | 50.48 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.0% | flat |
| 45 | Bahamas | 50.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.4% | falling |
| 46 | Saint Lucia | 50.27 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 5.5% | flat |
| 47 | Peru | 50.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.7% | rising |
| 48 | Sao Tome and Principe | 49.48 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.4% | falling |
| 49 | Nauru | 47.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 50 | China, Taiwan Province of | 47.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.2% | falling |
| 51 | Russian Federation | 44.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.9% | falling |
| 52 | Oman | 44.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 53 | Luxembourg | 44.82 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.0% | flat |
| 54 | Grenada | 44.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.7% | falling |
| 55 | Guyana | 44.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.1% | falling |
| 56 | New Caledonia | 43.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.3% | falling |
| 57 | Israel | 43.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.0% | rising |
| 58 | United Arab Emirates | 41.96 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.7% | falling |
| 59 | Costa Rica | 41.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 75.2% | rising |
| 60 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 40.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 13.8% | rising |
| 61 | Congo | 40.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.6% | rising |
| 62 | New Zealand | 39.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.4% | falling |
| 63 | Australia and New Zealand | 39.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.9% | falling |
| 64 | Australia | 39.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.6% | flat |
| 65 | Egypt | 38.82 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 66 | Gambia | 38.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.4% | falling |
| 67 | Belgium | 38.1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.7% | flat |
| 68 | Qatar | 36.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 69 | Croatia | 35.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.3% | rising |
| 70 | Ireland | 34.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.5% | flat |
| 71 | Comoros | 34.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.6% | flat |
| 72 | Trinidad and Tobago | 34.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.5% | falling |
| 73 | Cameroon | 33.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.4% | falling |
| 74 | Suriname | 33.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.4% | flat |
| 75 | Morocco | 33.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.4% | rising |
| 76 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 32.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 13.9% | falling |
| 77 | Bahrain | 32.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 78 | Greece | 32.44 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 22.5% | rising |
| 79 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 32.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 13.9% | falling |
| 80 | Uganda | 31.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.4% | rising |
| 81 | Panama | 31.45 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.4% | flat |
| 82 | Canada | 31.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.8% | falling |
| 83 | Tunisia | 30.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 16.1% | rising |
| 84 | Dominican Republic | 30.56 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 183.5% | rising |
| 85 | Angola | 29.79 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 35.1% | falling |
| 86 | Ukraine | 29.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 87 | Cyprus | 29.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.7% | falling |
| 88 | Libya | 27.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 44.9% | falling |
| 89 | Switzerland | 27.27 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.8% | flat |
| 90 | Germany | 26.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.5% | flat |
| 91 | Austria | 26.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.1% | flat |
| 92 | Senegal | 26.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 48.8% | falling |
| 93 | Mexico | 26.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.1% | rising |
| 94 | Poland | 24.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.4% | flat |
| 95 | Saudi Arabia | 24.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 96 | Kuwait | 24.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.3% | flat |
| 97 | Zambia | 24.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 35.8% | rising |
| 98 | Mozambique | 24.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 24.5% | rising |
| 99 | Guinea | 22.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.8% | flat |
| 100 | Belize | 22.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.5% | falling |
| 101 | Chile | 22.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.4% | rising |
| 102 | Colombia | 21.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 44.4% | rising |
| 103 | Belarus | 21.48 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.1% | falling |
| 104 | Montenegro | 21.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.7% | rising |
| 105 | Slovakia | 21.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 24.6% | rising |
| 106 | Uruguay | 20.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 68.7% | rising |
| 107 | Burkina Faso | 20.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 45.3% | rising |
| 108 | Georgia | 19.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 13.1% | rising |
| 109 | Slovenia | 19.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.5% | flat |
| 110 | Estonia | 18.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.2% | rising |
| 111 | Namibia | 18.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.7% | falling |
| 112 | Czechia | 18.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.0% | rising |
| 113 | India | 18.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 53.6% | rising |
| 114 | Serbia | 18.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.8% | rising |
| 115 | Malawi | 17.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 12.8% | rising |
| 116 | Albania | 16.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 22.8% | rising |
| 117 | Romania | 16.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 47.4% | rising |
| 118 | North Macedonia | 15.64 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 41.8% | rising |
| 119 | Mauritania | 15.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 26.0% | falling |
| 120 | El Salvador | 14.96 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 12.5% | rising |
| 121 | Bulgaria | 14.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.5% | rising |
| 122 | Papua New Guinea | 14.73 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 53.4% | falling |
| 123 | Brazil | 14.3 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.5% | falling |
| 124 | Bhutan | 13.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 125 | Nigeria | 13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 40.3% | falling |
| 126 | Hungary | 12.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.8% | rising |
| 127 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 12.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 29.7% | rising |
| 128 | Djibouti | 11.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 71.9% | rising |
| 129 | Haiti | 11.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 15.9% | rising |
| 130 | Argentina | 11.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.6% | rising |
| 131 | Nicaragua | 11.45 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.4% | rising |
| 132 | Cuba | 11.44 kcal/cap/d | 2019 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 133 | Paraguay | 11.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 15.4% | rising |
| 134 | Uzbekistan | 11.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 223.4% | volatile |
| 135 | Ecuador | 10.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 30.1% | falling |
| 136 | Rwanda | 10.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 137 | Armenia | 10.36 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.6% | rising |
| 138 | South Africa | 9.87 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 23.1% | falling |
| 139 | Honduras | 9.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 126.4% | rising |
| 139 | Liberia | 9.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.9% | falling |
| 141 | Nepal | 9.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 85.4% | rising |
| 142 | Lebanon | 9.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 46.5% | falling |
| 143 | Jordan | 8.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 23.5% | falling |
| 144 | Kazakhstan | 8.28 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 13.7% | falling |
| 145 | Eswatini | 7.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 62.0% | rising |
| 146 | Guatemala | 7.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 50.9% | rising |
| 147 | Madagascar | 6.87 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.0% | falling |
| 148 | Algeria | 5.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.1% | falling |
| 149 | Iraq | 5.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.9% | falling |
| 150 | Kenya | 5.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 29.9% | falling |
| 151 | Zimbabwe | 5.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 46.7% | falling |
| 152 | Turkmenistan | 5.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 30.3% | falling |
| 153 | Botswana | 4.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 44.4% | falling |
| 154 | Guinea-Bissau | 4.55 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 44.0% | rising |
| 155 | Azerbaijan | 4.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 27.5% | falling |
| 156 | Yemen | 4.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 56.4% | falling |
| 157 | Lesotho | 3.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.2% | rising |
| 158 | Niger | 3.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 31.9% | falling |
| 159 | Pakistan | 3.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.1% | falling |
| 160 | Kyrgyzstan | 3.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 37.8% | falling |
| 161 | Mongolia | 2.56 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 15.8% | rising |
| 162 | Tajikistan | 1.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 49.5% | rising |
| 163 | Ethiopia | 1.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 23.8% | rising |
| 164 | Afghanistan | 0.82 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 115.8% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Micronesia 118.27 kcal/cap/d
- South-Eastern Asia 75.5 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia (Federated States of) 101.32 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Asia 66.64 kcal/cap/d
- Polynesia 93.59 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Europe 53.74 kcal/cap/d
- Viet Nam 70.81 kcal/cap/d
- Côte d'Ivoire 44.61 kcal/cap/d
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 61.5 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Europe 40.78 kcal/cap/d
- Asia 43.37 kcal/cap/d
- European Union (27) 40.4 kcal/cap/d
- Europe 39.53 kcal/cap/d
- Republic of Moldova 37.82 kcal/cap/d
- Oceania 36.05 kcal/cap/d
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 24.77 kcal/cap/d
- Western Europe 35.83 kcal/cap/d
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 23.47 kcal/cap/d
- World 35.57 kcal/cap/d
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 23.22 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Europe 34.17 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 22.94 kcal/cap/d
- Northern America 29.56 kcal/cap/d
- Melanesia 22.89 kcal/cap/d
- United States of America 29.35 kcal/cap/d
- Middle Africa 16.9 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Africa 24.74 kcal/cap/d
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 16.41 kcal/cap/d
- Americas 23.17 kcal/cap/d
- Timor-Leste 14.42 kcal/cap/d
- Central America 22.81 kcal/cap/d
- United Republic of Tanzania 13.3 kcal/cap/d
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 22.21 kcal/cap/d
- Türkiye 9.24 kcal/cap/d
- Caribbean 21.28 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 6.72 kcal/cap/d
- Western Africa 20.35 kcal/cap/d
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 4.44 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Asia 19.59 kcal/cap/d
- Syrian Arab Republic 1.79 kcal/cap/d
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.