Millet and products — 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
Millet and products — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 64 countries. The highest value is 709.93 kcal/cap/d in Niger; the lowest is 0 kcal/cap/d in China, Macao SAR.
The median across all reporting countries is 3.76 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 29.52 kcal/cap/d.
Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 37 fell. The largest increase was in Montenegro (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in Dominican Republic (down 100.0%).
Millet and products — Food supply: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Niger | 709.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 23.6% | falling |
| 2 | Burkina Faso | 225.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 41.4% | falling |
| 3 | Senegal | 163.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.5% | falling |
| 4 | Gambia | 102.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 70.0% | volatile |
| 5 | Nepal | 88.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.8% | flat |
| 6 | Guinea-Bissau | 77.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 21.4% | rising |
| 7 | India | 67.8 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.8% | falling |
| 7 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 39.1% | falling |
| 8 | Ethiopia | 61.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.6% | rising |
| 9 | Nigeria | 47.7 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 12.6% | flat |
| 10 | Ghana | 44.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.1% | falling |
| 11 | Namibia | 43.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 68.9% | falling |
| 12 | Sierra Leone | 34.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.7% | falling |
| 13 | Cameroon | 27.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.7% | falling |
| 14 | Zimbabwe | 21.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 37.2% | flat |
| 15 | Malawi | 18.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.2% | flat |
| 16 | Uganda | 16.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 57.9% | volatile |
| 17 | Kenya | 13.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.7% | flat |
| 18 | Kazakhstan | 10.36 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 20.0% | volatile |
| 19 | Yemen | 8.88 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 68.6% | falling |
| 20 | Russian Federation | 7.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 30.7% | falling |
| 21 | China, mainland | 7.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 52.6% | rising |
| 22 | China | 7.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 51.9% | rising |
| 23 | Zambia | 6.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 50.8% | falling |
| 24 | Bhutan | 6.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 25 | Mauritania | 5.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.8% | flat |
| 26 | Guinea | 5.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.5% | falling |
| 27 | Angola | 5.27 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 45.8% | falling |
| 28 | Qatar | 4.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 29 | Pakistan | 4.8 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.4% | falling |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia | 4.77 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.0% | falling |
| 31 | Maldives | 4.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.3% | falling |
| 32 | Mozambique | 4.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 57.1% | volatile |
| 33 | Bahrain | 3.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 34 | Sri Lanka | 3.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.3% | falling |
| 35 | Myanmar | 3.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 29.1% | falling |
| 36 | New Caledonia | 3.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 5.7% | rising |
| 37 | Botswana | 2.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 47.4% | volatile |
| 38 | Morocco | 2.55 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 82.1% | rising |
| 39 | Tunisia | 2.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 40 | Afghanistan | 1.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 57.3% | volatile |
| 41 | Rwanda | 1.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 67.1% | falling |
| 42 | China, Taiwan Province of | 1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 44.8% | falling |
| 43 | Germany | 0.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 27.1% | falling |
| 44 | Bangladesh | 0.73 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.5% | rising |
| 45 | South Africa | 0.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.1% | falling |
| 45 | Seychelles | 0.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 47 | Republic of Korea | 0.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 69.9% | falling |
| 48 | Indonesia | 0.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.5% | rising |
| 49 | Ukraine | 0.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 92.8% | volatile |
| 50 | Montenegro | 0.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 51 | Liberia | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 51 | Lesotho | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 51 | Djibouti | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 51 | Madagascar | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 55 | Kuwait | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2020 | — | volatile |
| 55 | Cambodia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 55 | Egypt | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 55 | Dominican Republic | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 55 | Belize | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 55 | Paraguay | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 55 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 55 | Armenia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 55 | China, Macao SAR | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Western Africa 115.88 kcal/cap/d
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 56.28 kcal/cap/d
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 90.43 kcal/cap/d
- Middle Africa 27.69 kcal/cap/d
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 62.88 kcal/cap/d
- Asia 23.8 kcal/cap/d
- Africa 52.01 kcal/cap/d
- United Republic of Tanzania 15.91 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Asia 49.72 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 11.98 kcal/cap/d
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 37.37 kcal/cap/d
- Small island developing states (SIDS) 2.75 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Africa 26.37 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Africa 24.97 kcal/cap/d
- Syrian Arab Republic 0.13 kcal/cap/d
- World 23.71 kcal/cap/d
- Melanesia 0.07 kcal/cap/d
- Côte d'Ivoire 9.94 kcal/cap/d
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 0.03 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Asia 6.49 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Europe 3.82 kcal/cap/d
- Central Asia 2.61 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Africa 2.41 kcal/cap/d
- Western Asia 1.79 kcal/cap/d
- Europe 1.57 kcal/cap/d
- South-Eastern Asia 0.46 kcal/cap/d
- Western Europe 0.37 kcal/cap/d
- European Union (27) 0.16 kcal/cap/d
- Oceania 0.02 kcal/cap/d
- Central America 0 kcal/cap/d
- Caribbean 0 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.