Marine Fish, Other — 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
Marine Fish, Other — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 166 countries. The highest value is 57.54 kcal/cap/d in Tuvalu; the lowest is 0 kcal/cap/d in Netherlands (Kingdom of the).
The median across all reporting countries is 0.955 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 4.34 kcal/cap/d.
Over the past decade 52 countries rose and 102 fell. The largest increase was in Uruguay (up 10,100.0%), and the largest decrease in Argentina (down 100.0%).
Marine Fish, Other — Food supply: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tuvalu | 57.54 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 2 | Antigua and Barbuda | 51 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 29.5% | rising |
| 3 | Naoero | 33.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 3 | Viet Nam | 16.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 7.7% | falling |
| 4 | China, Macao SAR | 27.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.5% | falling |
| 5 | Marshall Islands | 25.64 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 6 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 25.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 38.4% | rising |
| 7 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 25.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.1% | falling |
| 8 | Cambodia | 25.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 37.0% | rising |
| 9 | Myanmar | 23.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 38.6% | falling |
| 9 | Cabo Verde | 1.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 121.5% | falling |
| 10 | Jamaica | 21.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.9% | falling |
| 11 | Kiribati | 19.54 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,106.2% | volatile |
| 12 | French Polynesia | 19.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 30.3% | falling |
| 12 | Timor-Leste | 1.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 77.2% | volatile |
| 13 | Grenada | 18.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 381.9% | rising |
| 14 | Tonga | 17.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 15 | Saint Lucia | 15.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 26.8% | rising |
| 16 | Malaysia | 13.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 26.6% | falling |
| 17 | Barbados | 12.82 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 34.1% | falling |
| 17 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 94.0% | volatile |
| 18 | Mozambique | 11.97 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 12.6% | rising |
| 19 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 10.88 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 35.2% | falling |
| 20 | Latvia | 10.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 20 | Türkiye | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 21 | Trinidad and Tobago | 9.56 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 23.5% | falling |
| 22 | Guyana | 9.55 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.2% | volatile |
| 23 | Mauritius | 9.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 23.0% | flat |
| 24 | Suriname | 8.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.5% | falling |
| 25 | Bhutan | 8.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 26 | Vanuatu | 6.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 79.2% | volatile |
| 27 | Oman | 5.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 207.4% | rising |
| 28 | Malta | 5.7 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 50.4% | rising |
| 29 | Solomon Islands | 5.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 77.9% | volatile |
| 30 | Australia | 5.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.4% | falling |
| 31 | Burkina Faso | 5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.6% | falling |
| 32 | Peru | 4.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 131.0% | volatile |
| 33 | New Caledonia | 4.96 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 48.9% | falling |
| 34 | Cameroon | 4.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.9% | falling |
| 35 | Australia and New Zealand | 4.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.5% | falling |
| 36 | China, Taiwan Province of | 4.28 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.9% | falling |
| 37 | Portugal | 4.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 23.8% | rising |
| 38 | Rwanda | 4.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.1% | falling |
| 39 | Switzerland | 3.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.2% | flat |
| 39 | China | 3.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 72.8% | rising |
| 41 | Bahrain | 3.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 42 | China, mainland | 3.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 78.0% | rising |
| 43 | Bangladesh | 3.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 39.9% | rising |
| 44 | Comoros | 3.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 30.2% | falling |
| 45 | Italy | 3.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 44.3% | rising |
| 45 | Mauritania | 3.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 21.8% | rising |
| 47 | Finland | 3.49 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.9% | falling |
| 48 | Luxembourg | 3.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 48.1% | falling |
| 49 | Kuwait | 3.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.1% | volatile |
| 50 | Madagascar | 2.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.7% | falling |
| 51 | Samoa | 2.88 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 73.8% | falling |
| 52 | Montenegro | 2.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.5% | falling |
| 53 | Saudi Arabia | 2.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 110.8% | rising |
| 54 | Panama | 2.64 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 35.4% | rising |
| 55 | Bahamas | 2.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 27.2% | falling |
| 56 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 157.0% | rising |
| 57 | Spain | 2.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 13.2% | falling |
| 58 | Eswatini | 2.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 303.4% | volatile |
| 59 | Greece | 2.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 42.9% | falling |
| 59 | Haiti | 2.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.2% | falling |
| 61 | Maldives | 2.31 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 86.2% | volatile |
| 62 | Sierra Leone | 2.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 39.8% | falling |
| 63 | Qatar | 2 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 64 | Cyprus | 1.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 82.4% | rising |
| 64 | Sweden | 1.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.1% | falling |
| 66 | Georgia | 1.7 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 48.8% | falling |
| 67 | Indonesia | 1.64 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 39.5% | volatile |
| 68 | Senegal | 1.54 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 569.6% | volatile |
| 69 | Lebanon | 1.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 44.0% | volatile |
| 70 | Belgium | 1.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.9% | falling |
| 71 | Austria | 1.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.1% | falling |
| 72 | Jordan | 1.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 48.9% | falling |
| 73 | Liberia | 1.36 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 58.4% | falling |
| 74 | Belize | 1.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 75 | Seychelles | 1.2 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 96.2% | volatile |
| 76 | Philippines | 1.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 174.4% | volatile |
| 77 | Costa Rica | 1.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 13.3% | volatile |
| 77 | Slovenia | 1.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 18.6% | rising |
| 77 | Uruguay | 1.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10,100.0% | volatile |
| 80 | Gabon | 0.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 88.7% | volatile |
| 81 | Slovakia | 0.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.2% | falling |
| 82 | Sri Lanka | 0.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 50.8% | falling |
| 82 | Nigeria | 0.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.2% | flat |
| 84 | El Salvador | 0.89 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 74.8% | volatile |
| 85 | Uganda | 0.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2,050.0% | volatile |
| 86 | Germany | 0.84 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.7% | falling |
| 87 | Kazakhstan | 0.82 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 37.4% | falling |
| 88 | Angola | 0.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 84.8% | volatile |
| 89 | Czechia | 0.79 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.2% | falling |
| 90 | Dominican Republic | 0.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 271.4% | rising |
| 91 | United Arab Emirates | 0.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 87.7% | volatile |
| 92 | Belarus | 0.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 73.3% | volatile |
| 92 | Gambia | 0.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 60.3% | falling |
| 94 | Ghana | 0.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 83.8% | falling |
| 95 | India | 0.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 9.8% | falling |
| 95 | Israel | 0.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.1% | flat |
| 97 | Albania | 0.64 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 37.9% | falling |
| 98 | Cuba | 0.62 kcal/cap/d | 2019 | down 67.4% | falling |
| 99 | Tunisia | 0.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 29.9% | flat |
| 100 | Congo | 0.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 66.1% | volatile |
| 100 | Mongolia | 0.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 76.5% | rising |
| 102 | Colombia | 0.56 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 23.3% | flat |
| 103 | Namibia | 0.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 23.3% | volatile |
| 104 | Morocco | 0.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 79.3% | falling |
| 105 | Romania | 0.51 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 37.8% | falling |
| 106 | Ukraine | 0.48 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 90.2% | volatile |
| 107 | Hungary | 0.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 23.0% | falling |
| 108 | North Macedonia | 0.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.4% | falling |
| 109 | Honduras | 0.45 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 33.8% | falling |
| 109 | Papua New Guinea | 0.45 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.6% | volatile |
| 111 | Bulgaria | 0.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 43.3% | rising |
| 112 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 43.1% | falling |
| 113 | Mexico | 0.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.7% | volatile |
| 114 | Armenia | 0.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.8% | rising |
| 114 | Serbia | 0.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 160.0% | volatile |
| 116 | France | 0.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 35.2% | falling |
| 117 | Ecuador | 0.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 560.0% | volatile |
| 118 | Azerbaijan | 0.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 73.8% | volatile |
| 118 | Guatemala | 0.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 82.5% | volatile |
| 118 | Libya | 0.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 59.0% | volatile |
| 121 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.31 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 97.1% | volatile |
| 122 | Republic of Korea | 0.3 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 41.2% | volatile |
| 123 | Canada | 0.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.1% | volatile |
| 123 | Malawi | 0.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 44.2% | falling |
| 125 | Egypt | 0.28 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 36.4% | volatile |
| 126 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 0.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.8% | falling |
| 127 | Djibouti | 0.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 60.7% | falling |
| 128 | Brazil | 0.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 82.8% | volatile |
| 128 | Zambia | 0.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 75.3% | volatile |
| 130 | Lesotho | 0.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.8% | volatile |
| 131 | Croatia | 0.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 92.5% | volatile |
| 132 | Nepal | 0.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 60.0% | falling |
| 133 | Zimbabwe | 0.15 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 7.1% | volatile |
| 134 | Iraq | 0.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 86.7% | volatile |
| 135 | Botswana | 0.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 59.4% | volatile |
| 135 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 89.3% | volatile |
| 137 | Norway | 0.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 138 | Fiji | 0.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 99.4% | volatile |
| 138 | Nicaragua | 0.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 120.0% | volatile |
| 138 | South Africa | 0.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 38.9% | falling |
| 141 | Thailand | 0.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 82.2% | volatile |
| 142 | Russian Federation | 0.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 143 | Niger | 0.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 144 | Uzbekistan | 0.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 44.4% | falling |
| 145 | Chile | 0.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 145 | New Zealand | 0.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 300.0% | volatile |
| 147 | Algeria | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 92.9% | volatile |
| 147 | Guinea | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 97.1% | volatile |
| 147 | Ireland | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 66.7% | volatile |
| 147 | Turkmenistan | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 72.7% | volatile |
| 151 | Paraguay | 0.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 151 | Tajikistan | 0.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 66.7% | volatile |
| 153 | Denmark | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 153 | Kenya | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 87.5% | volatile |
| 155 | Argentina | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 155 | Estonia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 155 | Ethiopia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 155 | Lithuania | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 155 | Pakistan | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 155 | Poland | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 155 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Micronesia (Federated States of) 33.19 kcal/cap/d
- Côte d'Ivoire 7.18 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia 26.46 kcal/cap/d
- South-Eastern Asia 6.52 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Asia 4.71 kcal/cap/d
- Polynesia 13.79 kcal/cap/d
- Oceania 3.68 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 8.24 kcal/cap/d
- Caribbean 3.39 kcal/cap/d
- Republic of Moldova 3.75 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Europe 2.79 kcal/cap/d
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 3.3 kcal/cap/d
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 2.25 kcal/cap/d
- Small island developing states (SIDS) 3.19 kcal/cap/d
- World 2.2 kcal/cap/d
- Asia 2.97 kcal/cap/d
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 2.97 kcal/cap/d
- Western Africa 1.7 kcal/cap/d
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1.78 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Africa 1.46 kcal/cap/d
- European Union (27) 1.38 kcal/cap/d
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 1.33 kcal/cap/d
- Melanesia 1 kcal/cap/d
- Africa 1.17 kcal/cap/d
- United States of America 1.17 kcal/cap/d
- Middle Africa 0.91 kcal/cap/d
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.23 kcal/cap/d
- Northern America 1.08 kcal/cap/d
- Syrian Arab Republic 0.08 kcal/cap/d
- Europe 0.98 kcal/cap/d
- United Republic of Tanzania 0.06 kcal/cap/d
- Americas 0.89 kcal/cap/d
- Western Europe 0.8 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Asia 0.8 kcal/cap/d
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.02 kcal/cap/d
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 0.75 kcal/cap/d
- Western Asia 0.73 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Europe 0.7 kcal/cap/d
- South America 0.68 kcal/cap/d
- Central America 0.48 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.