Molluscs, Other — Protein supply quantity (g/capita/day) by country
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What the numbers show
Molluscs, Other — Protein supply quantity (g/capita/day) is currently reported for 119 countries. The highest value is 1.47 g/cap/d in China, Macao SAR; the lowest is 0 g/cap/d in South Africa.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.04 g/cap/d, and the mean is 0.1469 g/cap/d.
Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 45 fell. The largest increase was in Bulgaria (up 500.0%), and the largest decrease in Egypt (down 100.0%).
Molluscs, Other — Protein supply quantity: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China, Macao SAR | 1.47 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 44.1% | rising |
| 2 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 1.28 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.3% | falling |
| 3 | China, mainland | 1.08 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.4% | rising |
| 4 | China | 1.07 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.6% | rising |
| 5 | Republic of Korea | 0.88 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.9% | falling |
| 6 | Portugal | 0.72 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 125.0% | rising |
| 7 | Belize | 0.7 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 66.7% | rising |
| 8 | Spain | 0.59 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 37.9% | falling |
| 9 | China, Taiwan Province of | 0.58 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.8% | falling |
| 10 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.56 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.3% | falling |
| 11 | France | 0.49 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.0% | falling |
| 12 | Italy | 0.42 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.4% | falling |
| 13 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0.41 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 28.1% | rising |
| 14 | French Polynesia | 0.35 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 45.8% | rising |
| 15 | Luxembourg | 0.34 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.6% | flat |
| 16 | Fiji | 0.32 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.3% | rising |
| 17 | Malta | 0.27 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.6% | falling |
| 18 | Canada | 0.25 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.7% | falling |
| 19 | Belgium | 0.23 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.8% | falling |
| 20 | Iceland | 0.22 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 450.0% | volatile |
| 20 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 0.22 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 83.3% | rising |
| 22 | Nicaragua | 0.21 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 61.5% | rising |
| 22 | Philippines | 0.21 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.2% | falling |
| 24 | New Caledonia | 0.2 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 25 | New Zealand | 0.19 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 171.4% | rising |
| 26 | Australia | 0.18 g/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | falling |
| 26 | Malaysia | 0.18 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 38.5% | falling |
| 26 | Australia and New Zealand | 0.18 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 12.5% | rising |
| 29 | Cyprus | 0.16 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.1% | rising |
| 29 | Denmark | 0.16 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.9% | falling |
| 31 | Maldives | 0.14 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 55.6% | rising |
| 31 | Mauritania | 0.14 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 366.7% | volatile |
| 31 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0.14 g/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | falling |
| 34 | Samoa | 0.13 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 53.6% | falling |
| 35 | Cambodia | 0.12 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 29.4% | rising |
| 36 | Argentina | 0.11 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 22.2% | rising |
| 36 | Jamaica | 0.11 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 35.3% | falling |
| 36 | Thailand | 0.11 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 39 | Switzerland | 0.09 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.0% | falling |
| 39 | Mexico | 0.09 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 28.6% | falling |
| 39 | Peru | 0.09 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.2% | volatile |
| 42 | Barbados | 0.08 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 42 | Ireland | 0.08 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 55.6% | falling |
| 42 | Slovenia | 0.08 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 33.3% | rising |
| 42 | Ukraine | 0.08 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.1% | rising |
| 42 | Russian Federation | 0.08 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.3% | rising |
| 47 | Chile | 0.07 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 16.7% | rising |
| 47 | Montenegro | 0.07 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.2% | falling |
| 47 | Norway | 0.07 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 22.2% | falling |
| 50 | Bulgaria | 0.06 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 500.0% | volatile |
| 50 | Bahamas | 0.06 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 57.1% | volatile |
| 50 | Croatia | 0.06 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.3% | falling |
| 50 | Panama | 0.06 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 50 | Sweden | 0.06 g/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 50 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 0.06 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 56 | United Arab Emirates | 0.05 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.7% | falling |
| 56 | Indonesia | 0.05 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 150.0% | volatile |
| 58 | Albania | 0.04 g/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | falling |
| 58 | Austria | 0.04 g/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | falling |
| 58 | Belarus | 0.04 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 58 | Costa Rica | 0.04 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 33.3% | rising |
| 58 | Estonia | 0.04 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 33.3% | rising |
| 58 | Greece | 0.04 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 60.0% | falling |
| 58 | Grenada | 0.04 g/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 58 | Saint Lucia | 0.04 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 85.7% | volatile |
| 58 | Mauritius | 0.04 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 300.0% | rising |
| 58 | Qatar | 0.04 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 58 | Romania | 0.04 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 69 | Israel | 0.03 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 69 | Lithuania | 0.03 g/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | falling |
| 69 | Marshall Islands | 0.03 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 69 | Poland | 0.03 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 69 | Seychelles | 0.03 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 66.7% | volatile |
| 69 | Uruguay | 0.03 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 69 | Vanuatu | 0.03 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 200.0% | rising |
| 76 | Bahrain | 0.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 76 | Cuba | 0.02 g/cap/d | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 76 | Czechia | 0.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 76 | Germany | 0.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 76 | Dominican Republic | 0.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 33.3% | flat |
| 76 | Finland | 0.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 76 | Kiribati | 0.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 76 | Latvia | 0.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 76 | Namibia | 0.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 76 | Senegal | 0.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 77.8% | volatile |
| 76 | Tonga | 0.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 76 | Tunisia | 0.02 g/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 88 | Brazil | 0.01 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 88 | Botswana | 0.01 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 88 | Gambia | 0.01 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 88 | Hungary | 0.01 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 88 | India | 0.01 g/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 88 | Kuwait | 0.01 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 88 | Sri Lanka | 0.01 g/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 88 | Madagascar | 0.01 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 88 | North Macedonia | 0.01 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 88 | Sierra Leone | 0.01 g/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 88 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.01 g/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 88 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.01 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 88 | Tuvalu | 0.01 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Armenia | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Congo | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Colombia | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Egypt | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 101 | Georgia | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 101 | Honduras | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Lebanon | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 101 | Libya | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Morocco | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Nigeria | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 101 | Oman | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Saudi Arabia | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Solomon Islands | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 101 | El Salvador | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Serbia | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Suriname | 0 g/cap/d | 2017 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Slovak Republic | 0 g/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | South Africa | 0 g/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.
- Eastern Asia 1 g/cap/d
- Southern Europe 0.41 g/cap/d
- World 0.25 g/cap/d
- European Union (27) 0.24 g/cap/d
- Western Europe 0.21 g/cap/d
- Northern America 0.18 g/cap/d
- Europe 0.17 g/cap/d
- United States of America 0.17 g/cap/d
- Türkiye 0.02 g/cap/d
- Oceania 0.13 g/cap/d
- South-Eastern Asia 0.11 g/cap/d
- Americas 0.09 g/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.