Fish, Seafood — Protein supply quantity (g/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...
Countries reporting
194
Highest
24.63 g/cap/d
Maldives
Lowest
0.12 g/cap/d
Afghanistan
Median
4.55 g/cap/d
Years covered
14
2010–2023
Data points
3,046
What the numbers show
Fish, Seafood — Protein supply quantity (g/capita/day) is currently reported for 194 countries. The highest value is 24.63 g/cap/d in Maldives; the lowest is 0.12 g/cap/d in Afghanistan.
The median across all reporting countries is 4.55 g/cap/d, and the mean is 5.54 g/cap/d.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 205.
Over the past decade 93 countries rose and 91 fell. The largest increase was in Uzbekistan (up 231.2%), and the largest decrease in Syria (down 63.1%).
Fish, Seafood — Protein supply quantity: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maldives | 24.63 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 52.1% | falling |
| 2 | Iceland | 24.5 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.1% | flat |
| 3 | Kiribati | 22.62 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.5% | flat |
| 4 | Micronesia | 17.45 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 26.3% | falling |
| 5 | Tuvalu | 16.37 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 6 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 15.69 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.1% | flat |
| 7 | Republic of Korea | 15.68 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.6% | flat |
| 8 | Malaysia | 14.84 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.0% | falling |
| 9 | China, Macao SAR | 14.28 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 5.9% | flat |
| 10 | Seychelles | 14.05 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.9% | falling |
| 11 | Micronesia (Federated States of) | 14.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 12 | French Polynesia | 13.9 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.4% | flat |
| 13 | Norway | 13.86 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.0% | falling |
| 14 | Portugal | 13.84 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 15 | Antigua and Barbuda | 13.53 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.2% | flat |
| 16 | Cambodia | 13.31 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 17 | Indonesia | 12.96 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 13.1% | rising |
| 18 | Samoa | 12.92 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.6% | flat |
| 19 | Polynesia | 12.63 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.2% | falling |
| 20 | Marshall Islands | 12.23 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 21 | Barbados | 11.86 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 22 | Myanmar | 11.81 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.6% | falling |
| 23 | Vietnam | 11.12 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 20.2% | rising |
| 23 | Viet Nam | 11.12 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 20.2% | rising |
| 25 | Spain | 10.55 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.6% | falling |
| 26 | China, mainland | 10.4 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.9% | rising |
| 27 | China | 10.39 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.3% | rising |
| 28 | Solomon Islands | 10.08 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.8% | falling |
| 29 | Thailand | 9.62 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.9% | rising |
| 30 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 9.56 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 31 | Laos | 8.95 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 33.6% | rising |
| 31 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 8.95 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 33.6% | rising |
| 33 | Vanuatu | 8.73 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.2% | falling |
| 34 | Mauritius | 8.71 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.1% | rising |
| 35 | Lithuania | 8.54 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.1% | falling |
| 36 | Latvia | 8.43 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.1% | rising |
| 37 | Malta | 8.35 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.4% | flat |
| 38 | Tonga | 8.28 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 39 | Sao Tome and Principe | 8.18 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.7% | flat |
| 40 | Philippines | 8.08 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.2% | falling |
| 41 | Italy | 7.91 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.1% | rising |
| 42 | Bangladesh | 7.9 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.8% | rising |
| 43 | Guyana | 7.81 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.7% | falling |
| 44 | Fiji | 7.8 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.2% | falling |
| 45 | China, Taiwan Province of | 7.78 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.8% | falling |
| 46 | France | 7.76 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.1% | flat |
| 47 | Finland | 7.75 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 13.3% | falling |
| 48 | Gabon | 7.74 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.9% | falling |
| 49 | Nauru | 7.66 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 49 | Sweden | 7.66 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.9% | flat |
| 49 | Nauru | 7.66 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 52 | Bahamas | 7.57 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.6% | flat |
| 52 | Oman | 7.57 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.6% | rising |
| 54 | Sierra Leone | 7.48 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.0% | falling |
| 55 | Ghana | 7.47 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 56 | Sri Lanka | 7.45 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.6% | falling |
| 57 | Peru | 7.36 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.1% | rising |
| 58 | Jamaica | 7.35 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 13.1% | rising |
| 59 | Denmark | 7.22 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.0% | flat |
| 60 | Luxembourg | 6.99 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.4% | flat |
| 61 | Cote d'Ivoire | 6.95 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 84.8% | rising |
| 61 | Côte d'Ivoire | 6.95 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 84.8% | rising |
| 63 | Saint Lucia | 6.94 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.8% | flat |
| 64 | Russia | 6.92 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.4% | falling |
| 64 | Russian Federation | 6.92 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.4% | falling |
| 66 | New Zealand | 6.5 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.3% | falling |
| 67 | New Caledonia | 6.31 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.4% | falling |
| 68 | Congo | 6.24 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.3% | rising |
| 69 | Australia and New Zealand | 6.17 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.5% | falling |
| 70 | United Arab Emirates | 6.15 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 23.1% | falling |
| 71 | Australia | 6.11 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.6% | falling |
| 72 | Israel | 5.99 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 73 | Egypt | 5.9 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 6.7% | rising |
| 73 | Gambia | 5.9 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.2% | falling |
| 75 | Croatia | 5.85 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.8% | rising |
| 76 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 5.8 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 77 | Grenada | 5.73 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 33.8% | falling |
| 78 | Moldova | 5.68 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 27.4% | rising |
| 78 | Republic of Moldova | 5.68 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 27.4% | rising |
| 80 | Belgium | 5.6 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.1% | flat |
| 81 | Qatar | 5.59 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 82 | Greece | 5.51 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 24.1% | rising |
| 83 | Costa Rica | 5.39 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 59.0% | rising |
| 84 | Morocco | 5.37 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.4% | rising |
| 85 | Comoros | 5.26 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 9.4% | flat |
| 86 | Cameroon | 5.16 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.3% | falling |
| 86 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 5.16 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.2% | falling |
| 88 | Bahrain | 5.13 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 89 | United Kingdom | 5 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.1% | falling |
| 89 | Ireland | 5 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.1% | falling |
| 89 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 5 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.1% | falling |
| 92 | Canada | 4.97 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.7% | falling |
| 93 | Trinidad and Tobago | 4.91 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.2% | falling |
| 94 | Suriname | 4.83 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.1% | flat |
| 95 | Cyprus | 4.76 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.3% | falling |
| 96 | United States | 4.68 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 5.4% | rising |
| 97 | Ukraine | 4.59 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 98 | Panama | 4.52 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.0% | flat |
| 98 | Tunisia | 4.52 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.1% | rising |
| 100 | Angola | 4.48 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 33.2% | falling |
| 101 | Uganda | 4.43 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.9% | rising |
| 102 | Dominican Republic | 4.32 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 173.4% | rising |
| 103 | Switzerland | 4.05 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.9% | flat |
| 104 | Mexico | 4.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 105 | Germany | 3.88 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.4% | flat |
| 106 | Senegal | 3.83 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 45.4% | falling |
| 107 | Mozambique | 3.78 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 26.8% | rising |
| 108 | Poland | 3.75 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 109 | Kuwait | 3.74 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.2% | flat |
| 110 | Saudi Arabia | 3.7 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 111 | Austria | 3.65 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.1% | flat |
| 112 | Libya | 3.61 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 42.9% | falling |
| 113 | Belize | 3.58 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.9% | falling |
| 114 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 3.54 g/cap/d | 2018 | up 29.7% | rising |
| 115 | Melanesia | 3.41 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 40.5% | falling |
| 116 | Belarus | 3.33 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.8% | falling |
| 117 | Chile | 3.32 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.8% | flat |
| 118 | Zambia | 3.31 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 40.9% | rising |
| 119 | Montenegro | 3.28 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.2% | rising |
| 120 | Guinea | 3.27 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.4% | flat |
| 121 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 3.24 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.4% | rising |
| 122 | Uruguay | 3.22 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 84.0% | rising |
| 123 | Estonia | 3.19 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 9.9% | rising |
| 124 | Colombia | 3.08 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 51.0% | rising |
| 125 | Georgia | 3.05 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 15.1% | rising |
| 126 | Slovenia | 3.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 127 | Burkina Faso | 2.97 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 53.9% | rising |
| 127 | Slovakia | 2.97 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 23.8% | rising |
| 129 | Caribbean | 2.95 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 28.3% | rising |
| 130 | Namibia | 2.86 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.4% | falling |
| 131 | Cabo Verde | 2.75 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.5% | falling |
| 132 | India | 2.68 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 52.3% | rising |
| 133 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 2.64 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.7% | falling |
| 134 | Czechia | 2.58 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.7% | rising |
| 135 | Albania | 2.51 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 20.1% | rising |
| 136 | Serbia | 2.5 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.0% | rising |
| 137 | Romania | 2.27 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 45.5% | rising |
| 138 | Brazil | 2.26 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.3% | falling |
| 138 | Papua New Guinea | 2.26 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 53.6% | falling |
| 140 | El Salvador | 2.25 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 7.7% | flat |
| 141 | Malawi | 2.24 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 8.2% | rising |
| 142 | Mauritania | 2.2 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.9% | falling |
| 143 | North Macedonia | 2.18 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 42.5% | rising |
| 144 | Bulgaria | 2.17 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.9% | rising |
| 145 | East Timor | 2.12 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 15.8% | rising |
| 145 | Timor-Leste | 2.12 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 15.8% | rising |
| 147 | Ecuador | 1.95 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 30.6% | falling |
| 148 | Argentina | 1.94 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.5% | rising |
| 149 | Nigeria | 1.93 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 43.7% | falling |
| 150 | Bhutan | 1.88 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 151 | Hungary | 1.79 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.2% | rising |
| 152 | United Republic of Tanzania | 1.77 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 9.7% | rising |
| 153 | Nicaragua | 1.75 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 16.7% | rising |
| 154 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.74 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 28.9% | rising |
| 155 | Cuba | 1.69 g/cap/d | 2019 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 156 | Paraguay | 1.62 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 15.7% | rising |
| 157 | Uzbekistan | 1.59 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 231.2% | volatile |
| 158 | Djibouti | 1.58 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 64.6% | rising |
| 159 | Haiti | 1.54 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.8% | rising |
| 160 | South Africa | 1.53 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.5% | falling |
| 161 | Armenia | 1.48 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 162 | Turkey | 1.41 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.6% | falling |
| 162 | Türkiye | 1.41 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.6% | falling |
| 164 | Rwanda | 1.37 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.6% | rising |
| 165 | Nepal | 1.32 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 85.9% | rising |
| 166 | Liberia | 1.31 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 26.0% | falling |
| 167 | Honduras | 1.3 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 124.1% | rising |
| 168 | Lebanon | 1.25 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 47.5% | falling |
| 169 | Jordan | 1.22 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.7% | falling |
| 170 | Kazakhstan | 1.2 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.4% | falling |
| 171 | Guatemala | 1.18 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 55.3% | rising |
| 172 | Eswatini | 1.12 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 64.7% | rising |
| 173 | Madagascar | 1.09 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.7% | falling |
| 174 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0.99 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.3% | falling |
| 175 | Algeria | 0.85 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 30.3% | falling |
| 176 | Iraq | 0.78 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.4% | falling |
| 177 | Kenya | 0.73 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 27.7% | falling |
| 177 | Turkmenistan | 0.73 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 26.3% | falling |
| 179 | Zimbabwe | 0.69 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 48.1% | falling |
| 180 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.64 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.5% | rising |
| 180 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 0.64 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.5% | rising |
| 182 | Azerbaijan | 0.62 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 26.2% | falling |
| 182 | Yemen | 0.62 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 56.3% | falling |
| 184 | Botswana | 0.57 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 42.4% | falling |
| 185 | Lesotho | 0.51 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 24.4% | rising |
| 186 | Niger | 0.45 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 43.0% | falling |
| 187 | Pakistan | 0.44 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.4% | falling |
| 188 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.43 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 38.6% | falling |
| 189 | Mongolia | 0.3 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 20.0% | rising |
| 190 | Syria | 0.24 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 63.1% | falling |
| 190 | Tajikistan | 0.24 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 71.4% | rising |
| 190 | Syrian Arab Republic | 0.24 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 63.1% | falling |
| 193 | Ethiopia | 0.13 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 194 | Afghanistan | 0.12 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 140.0% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- South-Eastern Asia 11.47 g/cap/d
- Eastern Asia 10.64 g/cap/d
- Southern Europe 8.31 g/cap/d
- Asia 6.72 g/cap/d
- Northern Europe 6.18 g/cap/d
- European Union (27) 6.12 g/cap/d
- Europe 6.03 g/cap/d
- Oceania 5.56 g/cap/d
- World 5.48 g/cap/d
- Western Europe 5.4 g/cap/d
- Eastern Europe 5.22 g/cap/d
- Northern America 4.71 g/cap/d
- United States of America 4.68 g/cap/d
- Northern Africa 3.78 g/cap/d
- Americas 3.61 g/cap/d
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 3.58 g/cap/d
- Central America 3.48 g/cap/d
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 3.31 g/cap/d
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 3.21 g/cap/d
- Western Africa 3.01 g/cap/d
- Southern Asia 2.86 g/cap/d
- South America 2.75 g/cap/d
- Africa 2.53 g/cap/d
- Middle Africa 2.51 g/cap/d
- Western Asia 1.89 g/cap/d
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 1.57 g/cap/d
- Eastern Africa 1.54 g/cap/d
- Southern Africa 1.52 g/cap/d
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 1.42 g/cap/d
- Central Asia 1.14 g/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.