Maize and products — Food supply quantity in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Maize and products — Food supply quantity was 26.79 kg/cap in 2023. ▬ Flat
Maize and products — Food supply quantity in Middle Africa, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/cap.
Analysis
Middle Africa recorded 26.79 kg/cap for maize and products — food supply quantity in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 14 years on record.
That represents a change of down 0.2% on the previous year and down 3.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, maize and products — food supply quantity in Middle Africa peaked at 28.61 kg/cap in 2017 and was at its lowest, 26.79 kg/cap, in 2023.
Middle Africa ranks 7th of 20 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Maize and products — Food supply quantity in Middle Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/cap | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 27.05 kg/cap | — |
| 2011 | 27.26 kg/cap | +0.8% |
| 2012 | 27.64 kg/cap | +1.4% |
| 2013 | 27.7 kg/cap | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 28.36 kg/cap | +2.4% |
| 2015 | 28.39 kg/cap | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 28.49 kg/cap | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 28.61 kg/cap | +0.4% |
| 2018 | 27.64 kg/cap | -3.4% |
| 2019 | 27.62 kg/cap | -0.1% |
| 2020 | 27.97 kg/cap | +1.3% |
| 2021 | 26.84 kg/cap | -4.0% |
| 2022 | 26.84 kg/cap | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 26.79 kg/cap | -0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 27.88 kg/cap | 27.05 kg/cap | 28.61 kg/cap | 10 |
| 2020s | 27.11 kg/cap | 26.79 kg/cap | 27.97 kg/cap | 4 |
Countries ranked near Middle Africa
- 4 Timor-Leste 52.63 kg/cap compare
- 4 Cabo Verde 55.1 kg/cap compare
- 4 Lesotho 93.99 kg/cap compare
- 5 Paraguay 89.17 kg/cap compare
- 6 El Salvador 83.5 kg/cap compare
- 6 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 31.11 kg/cap compare
- 7 Guatemala 82.65 kg/cap compare
- 8 Botswana 80.22 kg/cap compare
- 8 Democratic Republic of the Congo 19.02 kg/cap compare
- 9 Bhutan 80.09 kg/cap compare
- 9 Türkiye 16.38 kg/cap compare
- 10 Viet Nam 16.12 kg/cap compare
- 10 South Africa 79.97 kg/cap compare
More agriculture & rural data for Middle Africa
- Cabbages — Production, annual growth rate 2.96 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Yield, annual growth rate -1.62 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Production, annual growth rate 1.03 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Area harvested, annual growth rate 3.69 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Yield, annual growth rate -0.8424 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Production, annual growth rate 2.82 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Area harvested, annual growth rate 0.9921 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Yield, annual growth rate 1.95 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production, annual 3.01 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 1.79 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is maize and products — food supply quantity in Middle Africa?
- Maize and products — food supply quantity in Middle Africa was 26.79 kg/cap in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest maize and products — food supply quantity recorded in Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 28.61 kg/cap in 2017.
- What is the lowest maize and products — food supply quantity recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 26.79 kg/cap in 2023.
- How does Middle Africa rank for maize and products — food supply quantity?
- Middle Africa ranks 7th out of 20 groups with data for 2023.
- Is maize and products — food supply quantity rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Middle Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Maize and products — Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.