Meat, 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
Meat, Other — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 162 countries. The highest value is 164.31 kcal/cap/d in Papua New Guinea; the lowest is 0 kcal/cap/d in El Salvador.
The median across all reporting countries is 2.33 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 6.12 kcal/cap/d.
Over the past decade 48 countries rose and 101 fell. The largest increase was in New Caledonia (up 1,361.9%), and the largest decrease in Fiji (down 100.0%).
Meat, Other — Food supply: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Papua New Guinea | 164.31 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 9.3% | falling |
| 2 | Mongolia | 80.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 108.4% | rising |
| 3 | Gabon | 49.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.4% | falling |
| 4 | Botswana | 46.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 16.3% | rising |
| 5 | Iceland | 41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 6 | Congo | 29.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.9% | falling |
| 7 | Kazakhstan | 28.28 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 56.9% | rising |
| 8 | Cuba | 25.03 kcal/cap/d | 2019 | down 17.9% | flat |
| 9 | Ireland | 23.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 216.2% | volatile |
| 10 | Mauritania | 21.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 13.2% | falling |
| 11 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 19.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 51.6% | falling |
| 12 | Namibia | 15.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.7% | falling |
| 13 | Ghana | 14.97 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 14 | Kyrgyzstan | 13.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 187.8% | rising |
| 15 | Oman | 12.55 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 16 | United Arab Emirates | 12.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 17 | Cameroon | 10.97 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.6% | falling |
| 18 | Russian Federation | 10.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.9% | rising |
| 19 | Belgium | 10.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.5% | rising |
| 20 | Lesotho | 10.54 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.2% | falling |
| 21 | Chile | 10.15 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 242.9% | volatile |
| 22 | Kuwait | 9.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 420.4% | volatile |
| 23 | Liberia | 9.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 24.0% | falling |
| 24 | Zimbabwe | 8.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.6% | flat |
| 25 | China, Macao SAR | 8.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 96.5% | rising |
| 26 | Niger | 8.3 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.2% | falling |
| 27 | Czechia | 8.1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 40.0% | falling |
| 28 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 7.96 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 34.1% | falling |
| 29 | Zambia | 7.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.7% | falling |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia | 7.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.1% | rising |
| 31 | New Zealand | 7.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.6% | falling |
| 32 | Croatia | 7.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 167.5% | rising |
| 33 | Slovakia | 7.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 23.8% | falling |
| 34 | Spain | 6.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.4% | falling |
| 35 | Morocco | 6.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.7% | flat |
| 36 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 6.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 23.4% | falling |
| 37 | Turkmenistan | 6.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 622.0% | volatile |
| 38 | French Polynesia | 5.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 50.2% | falling |
| 39 | Kenya | 5.71 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.7% | falling |
| 39 | Norway | 5.71 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 31.0% | falling |
| 41 | Malta | 5.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 67.3% | volatile |
| 42 | Rwanda | 5.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.4% | falling |
| 43 | Denmark | 5.3 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 55.9% | falling |
| 44 | Tonga | 5.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 45 | Sierra Leone | 4.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 32.8% | falling |
| 46 | Bahrain | 4.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 47 | Grenada | 4.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.3% | flat |
| 48 | Australia and New Zealand | 4.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 44.9% | falling |
| 49 | Argentina | 4.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 50 | North Macedonia | 4.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 139.7% | volatile |
| 51 | Senegal | 4.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.0% | falling |
| 52 | Peru | 3.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 9.5% | falling |
| 53 | Switzerland | 3.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 49.3% | falling |
| 53 | Germany | 3.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 61.2% | falling |
| 55 | Ethiopia | 3.7 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.9% | falling |
| 56 | Australia | 3.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 51.2% | falling |
| 56 | Panama | 3.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 43.4% | flat |
| 58 | Egypt | 3.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.5% | flat |
| 59 | Brazil | 3.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 105.3% | volatile |
| 59 | Italy | 3.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 82.2% | volatile |
| 61 | Bahamas | 3.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 91.0% | volatile |
| 62 | Nauru | 3.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 62 | South Africa | 3.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 12.9% | rising |
| 64 | Tuvalu | 3.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 65 | Luxembourg | 3.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 56.3% | falling |
| 66 | Mauritius | 3.1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.9% | flat |
| 67 | Greece | 3.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 64.6% | falling |
| 68 | New Caledonia | 3.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,361.9% | volatile |
| 69 | Nigeria | 3 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.7% | falling |
| 70 | Haiti | 2.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.5% | falling |
| 71 | Lithuania | 2.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.2% | flat |
| 72 | Tunisia | 2.88 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.9% | falling |
| 73 | Libya | 2.83 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.2% | falling |
| 74 | Latvia | 2.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 27.7% | flat |
| 75 | Marshall Islands | 2.7 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 76 | China, mainland | 2.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 32.0% | falling |
| 77 | China | 2.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 31.9% | falling |
| 78 | Portugal | 2.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 53.2% | falling |
| 79 | Djibouti | 2.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 12.1% | flat |
| 80 | Uganda | 2.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.6% | falling |
| 81 | Bulgaria | 2.36 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 40.4% | falling |
| 82 | Gambia | 2.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.7% | falling |
| 83 | Ecuador | 2.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.0% | falling |
| 84 | Canada | 1.87 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 392.1% | volatile |
| 84 | Mexico | 1.87 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.6% | falling |
| 86 | Hungary | 1.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 73.7% | volatile |
| 87 | Algeria | 1.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 44.6% | rising |
| 88 | Guinea | 1.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.9% | falling |
| 89 | Qatar | 1.71 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 90 | France | 1.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 84.7% | falling |
| 91 | Burkina Faso | 1.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.1% | falling |
| 92 | Finland | 1.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 75.4% | falling |
| 93 | Estonia | 1.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 128.3% | volatile |
| 93 | Sweden | 1.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 82.7% | volatile |
| 95 | Ukraine | 1.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.9% | falling |
| 96 | Austria | 1.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 73.2% | falling |
| 97 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1.28 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 48.8% | volatile |
| 98 | Slovenia | 1.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.8% | falling |
| 99 | Cyprus | 1.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 77.0% | volatile |
| 100 | Afghanistan | 1.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 26.1% | falling |
| 101 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 642.9% | volatile |
| 102 | Angola | 1.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.6% | falling |
| 102 | Maldives | 1.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 7.3% | volatile |
| 104 | Madagascar | 1.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.1% | falling |
| 105 | Belarus | 1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.0% | falling |
| 106 | Republic of Korea | 0.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.9% | falling |
| 107 | Uzbekistan | 0.97 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.5% | volatile |
| 108 | Uruguay | 0.89 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 65.6% | rising |
| 109 | Nicaragua | 0.82 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 42.7% | falling |
| 109 | Romania | 0.82 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 61.9% | volatile |
| 111 | Paraguay | 0.79 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 68.1% | rising |
| 112 | Georgia | 0.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 111.1% | volatile |
| 113 | Tajikistan | 0.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.0% | falling |
| 114 | Philippines | 0.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.2% | falling |
| 115 | Barbados | 0.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 116 | Guyana | 0.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.4% | flat |
| 117 | India | 0.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.7% | flat |
| 118 | Thailand | 0.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 257.1% | volatile |
| 119 | Bangladesh | 0.49 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.6% | flat |
| 120 | Colombia | 0.48 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.1% | falling |
| 121 | Guatemala | 0.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 46.6% | falling |
| 122 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 81.4% | volatile |
| 122 | Pakistan | 0.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 124 | Armenia | 0.45 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 350.0% | volatile |
| 125 | Poland | 0.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 39.7% | falling |
| 125 | Seychelles | 0.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 192.3% | volatile |
| 127 | Iraq | 0.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 105.6% | volatile |
| 128 | Albania | 0.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 118.8% | volatile |
| 129 | Yemen | 0.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.9% | flat |
| 130 | China, Taiwan Province of | 0.31 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 13.9% | flat |
| 131 | Jordan | 0.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 132 | Cambodia | 0.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 133 | Eswatini | 0.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 83.2% | rising |
| 134 | Dominican Republic | 0.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 171.4% | volatile |
| 134 | Serbia | 0.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 13.6% | falling |
| 134 | Suriname | 0.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 69.8% | falling |
| 137 | Honduras | 0.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.3% | volatile |
| 138 | Montenegro | 0.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 133.3% | volatile |
| 139 | Kiribati | 0.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 81.4% | volatile |
| 140 | Vanuatu | 0.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 99.1% | volatile |
| 141 | Costa Rica | 0.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 141 | Samoa | 0.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.0% | volatile |
| 143 | Jamaica | 0.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 144 | Mozambique | 0.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 42.9% | falling |
| 144 | Malaysia | 0.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.0% | falling |
| 146 | Belize | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 97.8% | volatile |
| 146 | Israel | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 146 | Saint Lucia | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 96.2% | volatile |
| 146 | Solomon Islands | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 86.4% | volatile |
| 146 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 93.5% | volatile |
| 151 | Indonesia | 0.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 151 | Lebanon | 0.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 153 | Azerbaijan | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 97.7% | volatile |
| 153 | Comoros | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 96.2% | volatile |
| 153 | Malawi | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 153 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 75.0% | volatile |
| 157 | Fiji | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 157 | Guinea-Bissau | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 157 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 157 | Myanmar | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 157 | Nepal | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 157 | El Salvador | 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.
- Melanesia 134.24 kcal/cap/d
- Oceania 40.74 kcal/cap/d
- Timor-Leste 48.34 kcal/cap/d
- Côte d'Ivoire 23.76 kcal/cap/d
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 32.05 kcal/cap/d
- Central Asia 9.42 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 18.92 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Europe 6.47 kcal/cap/d
- Middle Africa 7.35 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Europe 6.42 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 6.2 kcal/cap/d
- Western Africa 6.1 kcal/cap/d
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 6.1 kcal/cap/d
- Europe 5.56 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Africa 5.4 kcal/cap/d
- Polynesia 3.66 kcal/cap/d
- Caribbean 5.31 kcal/cap/d
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 3.13 kcal/cap/d
- Africa 5.11 kcal/cap/d
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 2.42 kcal/cap/d
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 5.03 kcal/cap/d
- Asia 1.56 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Africa 4.8 kcal/cap/d
- United Republic of Tanzania 1.5 kcal/cap/d
- Western Europe 4.78 kcal/cap/d
- Viet Nam 1.2 kcal/cap/d
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 4.55 kcal/cap/d
- Republic of Moldova 1.11 kcal/cap/d
- European Union (27) 4.3 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Europe 4.3 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia (Federated States of) 1.07 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia 0.9 kcal/cap/d
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 3.52 kcal/cap/d
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.35 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Africa 3.39 kcal/cap/d
- Syrian Arab Republic 0.12 kcal/cap/d
- South America 3.25 kcal/cap/d
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.1 kcal/cap/d
- United States of America 3.09 kcal/cap/d
- Türkiye 0.06 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.