Meat and meat products — Vitamin A supply (retinol activity) in Australia
Australia: Meat and meat products — Vitamin A supply (retinol activity) was 631 μg/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
Meat and meat products — Vitamin A supply (retinol activity) in Australia, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in μg/cap/d.
Analysis
In 2023, meat and meat products — vitamin a supply (retinol activity) in Australia stood at 631 μg/cap/d.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 12.9% on the previous year and down 5.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat and meat products — vitamin a supply (retinol activity) in Australia peaked at 821 μg/cap/d in 2015 and was at its lowest, 482 μg/cap/d, in 2021.
That places Australia 9th out of 163 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Meat and meat products — Vitamin A supply (retinol activity) in Australia, year by year
| Year | μg/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 660 μg/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 663 μg/cap/d | +0.5% |
| 2012 | 612 μg/cap/d | -7.7% |
| 2013 | 664 μg/cap/d | +8.5% |
| 2014 | 739 μg/cap/d | +11.3% |
| 2015 | 821 μg/cap/d | +11.1% |
| 2016 | 732 μg/cap/d | -10.8% |
| 2017 | 600 μg/cap/d | -18.0% |
| 2018 | 611 μg/cap/d | +1.8% |
| 2019 | 610 μg/cap/d | -0.2% |
| 2020 | 637 μg/cap/d | +4.4% |
| 2021 | 482 μg/cap/d | -24.3% |
| 2022 | 559 μg/cap/d | +16.0% |
| 2023 | 631 μg/cap/d | +12.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 671.2 μg/cap/d | 600 μg/cap/d | 821 μg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 577.25 μg/cap/d | 482 μg/cap/d | 637 μg/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Australia
- 6 Lao People's Democratic Republic 188 μg/cap/d compare
- 6 Serbia 740 μg/cap/d compare
- 7 China, Macao SAR 681 μg/cap/d compare
- 7 Syrian Arab Republic 185 μg/cap/d compare
- 8 Argentina 657 μg/cap/d compare
- 8 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 162 μg/cap/d compare
- 9 United Republic of Tanzania 107 μg/cap/d compare
- 10 Belarus 618 μg/cap/d compare
- 10 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 96 μg/cap/d compare
- 11 Democratic Republic of the Congo 84 μg/cap/d compare
- 11 Iceland 597 μg/cap/d compare
- 12 Micronesia (Federated States of) 71 μg/cap/d compare
- 12 Panama 556 μg/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Australia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.97 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0227 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,476 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.5855 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1228 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 2.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 2.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat and meat products — vitamin a supply (retinol activity) in Australia?
- Meat and meat products — vitamin a supply (retinol activity) in Australia was 631 μg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat and meat products — vitamin a supply (retinol activity) recorded in Australia?
- The highest recorded value was 821 μg/cap/d in 2015.
- What is the lowest meat and meat products — vitamin a supply (retinol activity) recorded in Australia?
- The lowest recorded value was 482 μg/cap/d in 2021.
- How does Australia rank for meat and meat products — vitamin a supply (retinol activity)?
- Australia ranks 9th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is meat and meat products — vitamin a supply (retinol activity) rising or falling in Australia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 5.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Australia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Meat and meat products — Vitamin A supply (retinol activity equivalents) — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The dataset presents average daily per capita macro and micro nutrient availability by country and by FAO/WHO GIFT food groups (that are different from those used for the Food Balance Sheets), expressed in grams/milligrams/micrograms/kcal per capita per day. The population numbers used to calculate these statistics can be found in the Supply Utilization Accounts (SUA) dataset of FAOSTAT, as Total Population. Food availability quantities are derived from the SUA dataset. SUAs present a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply and utilization during a specified reference period. The SUA 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 capita 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.