Onions — Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr) 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...

Countries reporting
158
Highest
56.83 kg/cap
Tajikistan
Lowest
0 kg/cap
Lesotho
Median
7.84 kg/cap
Years covered
14
2010–2023
Data points
2,789

What the numbers show

Onions — Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr) is currently reported for 158 countries. The highest value is 56.83 kg/cap in Tajikistan; the lowest is 0 kg/cap in Lesotho.

The median across all reporting countries is 7.84 kg/cap, and the mean is 10.39 kg/cap.

Over the past decade 102 countries rose and 47 fell. The largest increase was in Zimbabwe (up 3,867.3%), and the largest decrease in China, Hong Kong SAR (down 84.0%).

Onions — Food supply quantity: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Tajikistan 56.83 kg/cap 2023 up 55.7% rising
2 Niger 49.55 kg/cap 2023 up 60.3% rising
3 Kazakhstan 43.02 kg/cap 2023 up 12.7% rising
4 Albania 39.28 kg/cap 2023 up 33.7% rising
5 Algeria 35.98 kg/cap 2023 up 10.9% rising
6 Senegal 31.15 kg/cap 2023 up 25.6% rising
7 North Macedonia 30.79 kg/cap 2023 up 62.1% rising
8 Kyrgyzstan 29.91 kg/cap 2023 up 46.4% rising
9 Maldives 26.54 kg/cap 2023 up 48.4% rising
10 Azerbaijan 25.95 kg/cap 2023 up 62.8% rising
11 Uzbekistan 25.87 kg/cap 2023 down 20.1% falling
12 Egypt 25.82 kg/cap 2023 up 267.8% rising
13 Ukraine 24.96 kg/cap 2023 up 20.1% flat
14 Belarus 24.93 kg/cap 2023 up 63.3% rising
15 Libya 24.23 kg/cap 2023 down 22.1% falling
16 Guyana 24.02 kg/cap 2023 up 122.2% rising
17 Republic of Korea 23.09 kg/cap 2023 down 7.0% falling
18 Zimbabwe 21.82 kg/cap 2023 up 3,867.3% volatile
19 Oman 21.19 kg/cap 2023 up 44.7% rising
20 Kuwait 20.71 kg/cap 2023 down 35.3% rising
21 Djibouti 19.81 kg/cap 2023 up 45.3% rising
22 Qatar 19.44 kg/cap 2023 falling
23 Chile 19.21 kg/cap 2023 up 11.0% rising
24 Bahrain 18.8 kg/cap 2023 falling
25 Spain 18.69 kg/cap 2023 up 1.5% flat
26 Bangladesh 18.63 kg/cap 2023 up 103.8% rising
27 India 17.48 kg/cap 2023 up 39.6% rising
28 Mauritius 16.17 kg/cap 2023 up 34.9% rising
29 Myanmar 15.86 kg/cap 2023 down 27.5% falling
30 Malta 15.41 kg/cap 2023 up 5.9% flat
31 Malaysia 15.35 kg/cap 2023 up 16.6% rising
32 Poland 15.27 kg/cap 2023 up 31.8% rising
33 Sri Lanka 15.22 kg/cap 2023 up 8.8% rising
34 Morocco 15.08 kg/cap 2023 down 39.9% falling
35 China, mainland 14.74 kg/cap 2023 up 6.3% rising
36 China (People’s Republic of) 14.51 kg/cap 2023 up 6.4% rising
37 Saudi Arabia 14.16 kg/cap 2023 up 6.6% rising
37 Tunisia 14.16 kg/cap 2023 down 1.0% rising
39 Bosnia and Herzegovina 13.37 kg/cap 2023 up 9.3% rising
40 Malawi 13.13 kg/cap 2023 up 125.6% rising
41 United Arab Emirates 12.91 kg/cap 2023 up 23.7% rising
42 Russian Federation 12.58 kg/cap 2023 down 15.7% falling
43 Seychelles 12.48 kg/cap 2023 down 28.6% flat
44 Israel 12.41 kg/cap 2023 up 2.1% flat
45 Turkmenistan 12.14 kg/cap 2023 down 25.4% falling
46 Mongolia 11.97 kg/cap 2023 up 34.5% rising
47 Mauritania 11.94 kg/cap 2023 up 4.4% rising
48 Greece 11.65 kg/cap 2023 down 46.3% falling
49 Portugal 11.61 kg/cap 2023 down 27.0% falling
50 Cameroon 11.6 kg/cap 2023 up 26.5% rising
51 Jordan 11.19 kg/cap 2023 up 104.2% rising
52 Argentina 11.14 kg/cap 2023 up 12.6% flat
53 Colombia 10.98 kg/cap 2023 up 18.6% rising
54 Romania 10.97 kg/cap 2023 down 48.0% falling
55 Czechia 10.67 kg/cap 2023 up 25.4% rising
56 Canada 10.51 kg/cap 2023 up 17.2% rising
57 Dominican Republic 10.27 kg/cap 2023 up 99.0% rising
58 Croatia 10.26 kg/cap 2023 up 22.4% flat
59 Armenia 10.06 kg/cap 2023 up 0.1% flat
60 Georgia 9.96 kg/cap 2023 up 11.5% flat
61 Germany 9.93 kg/cap 2023 up 60.7% rising
62 Lebanon 9.88 kg/cap 2023 up 18.3% flat
63 France 9.66 kg/cap 2023 up 113.2% rising
64 Barbados 9.51 kg/cap 2023 up 33.0% rising
65 Mozambique 9.16 kg/cap 2023 up 119.7% rising
66 Mexico 9.12 kg/cap 2023 up 28.1% rising
67 Guatemala 9.02 kg/cap 2023 up 24.4% rising
68 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 8.76 kg/cap 2023 down 20.1% falling
69 Sweden 8.51 kg/cap 2023 up 13.3% rising
70 Fiji 8.45 kg/cap 2023 down 5.9% rising
70 Slovenia 8.45 kg/cap 2023 up 15.4% rising
72 Costa Rica 8.42 kg/cap 2023 up 26.0% flat
73 Denmark 8.35 kg/cap 2023 up 1.5% falling
74 Montenegro 8.33 kg/cap 2023 up 12.7% rising
75 Ireland 8.22 kg/cap 2023 up 8.0% falling
76 South Africa 8.03 kg/cap 2023 down 2.9% falling
77 Latvia 7.98 kg/cap 2023 up 0.4% falling
78 Uruguay 7.96 kg/cap 2023 up 14.5% rising
79 Bahamas 7.94 kg/cap 2023 up 49.0% rising
80 Austria 7.73 kg/cap 2023 down 22.7% falling
81 Indonesia 7.53 kg/cap 2023 up 101.9% rising
82 Australia 7.5 kg/cap 2023 down 24.5% falling
83 Pakistan 7.49 kg/cap 2023 down 0.7% flat
84 Bulgaria 7.28 kg/cap 2023 up 87.1% rising
85 Estonia 7.22 kg/cap 2023 up 45.3% rising
86 Finland 7.19 kg/cap 2023 up 16.2% rising
87 Naoero 7.17 kg/cap 2023 rising
88 Brazil 7.12 kg/cap 2023 up 0.3% falling
89 Italy 7.09 kg/cap 2023 up 22.9% rising
90 Suriname 7.03 kg/cap 2023 down 12.6% flat
91 Hungary 7 kg/cap 2023 up 8.2% rising
92 Afghanistan 6.92 kg/cap 2023 up 3.7% falling
93 Nicaragua 6.86 kg/cap 2023 up 80.5% rising
94 Nigeria 6.76 kg/cap 2023 up 66.5% rising
95 Uganda 6.74 kg/cap 2023 down 12.0% falling
96 Antigua and Barbuda 6.73 kg/cap 2023 up 3.5% rising
97 Luxembourg 6.7 kg/cap 2023 up 39.0% rising
98 Panama 6.69 kg/cap 2023 up 7.9% flat
99 Samoa 6.66 kg/cap 2023 up 63.6% rising
100 Peru 6.5 kg/cap 2023 down 59.0% falling
101 Cuba 6.43 kg/cap 2019 down 23.0% falling
102 Lithuania 6.41 kg/cap 2023 down 17.5% flat
103 Namibia 6.36 kg/cap 2023 up 7.3% rising
104 El Salvador 6.28 kg/cap 2023 up 30.6% rising
105 Australia and New Zealand 6.27 kg/cap 2023 down 24.8% falling
106 Saint Lucia 5.46 kg/cap 2023 up 31.6% rising
107 Switzerland 5.44 kg/cap 2023 up 13.1% rising
108 China, Macao SAR 5.37 kg/cap 2023 up 53.0% rising
109 Iceland 5.35 kg/cap 2023 down 2.7% flat
110 Grenada 5.33 kg/cap 2023 up 114.1% rising
111 Bhutan 5.26 kg/cap 2023 rising
112 China, Taiwan Province of 5.17 kg/cap 2023 up 12.1% rising
113 Slovak Republic 5.05 kg/cap 2023 down 14.6% falling
114 Guinea 4.77 kg/cap 2023 up 15.2% rising
115 Jamaica 4.73 kg/cap 2023 up 44.6% rising
116 Ghana 4.58 kg/cap 2023 down 31.2% flat
117 Nepal 4.52 kg/cap 2023 up 54.3% rising
118 Eswatini 4.46 kg/cap 2023 up 41.6% volatile
119 Saint Kitts and Nevis 4.4 kg/cap 2023 down 20.1% falling
120 Paraguay 4.19 kg/cap 2023 down 11.4% falling
121 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 4.04 kg/cap 2023 up 248.3% volatile
122 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 3.56 kg/cap 2023 up 47.7% rising
123 Iraq 3.52 kg/cap 2023 down 52.0% rising
124 Sao Tome and Principe 3.48 kg/cap 2023 up 38.1% rising
125 Belize 3.24 kg/cap 2023 up 30.6% rising
126 Yemen 3.18 kg/cap 2023 up 12.4% falling
127 Comoros 3.03 kg/cap 2023 up 22.7% rising
128 Cyprus 2.99 kg/cap 2023 down 27.8% falling
129 Kenya 2.64 kg/cap 2023 down 6.4% rising
130 Botswana 2.58 kg/cap 2023 down 25.6% rising
131 Philippines 2.56 kg/cap 2023 up 104.8% rising
132 Rwanda 2.34 kg/cap 2023 up 96.6% rising
133 Ethiopia 2.26 kg/cap 2023 up 14.1% falling
134 Sierra Leone 2.04 kg/cap 2023 down 20.0% rising
135 Gabon 2 kg/cap 2023 down 25.7% flat
136 Tuvalu 1.96 kg/cap 2023 falling
137 Congo 1.89 kg/cap 2023 up 16.0% rising
138 Zambia 1.8 kg/cap 2023 down 34.5% falling
139 Guinea-Bissau 1.77 kg/cap 2023 down 28.9% rising
140 French Polynesia 1.67 kg/cap 2023 down 72.6% falling
141 Thailand 1.66 kg/cap 2023 up 22.1% rising
142 Serbia 1.58 kg/cap 2023 down 15.5% volatile
143 Haiti 1.55 kg/cap 2023 up 3.3% rising
144 Norway 1.29 kg/cap 2023 down 34.5% falling
145 Honduras 1.16 kg/cap 2023 down 57.4% falling
146 Belgium 1.02 kg/cap 2023 up 41.7% rising
147 Solomon Islands 0.56 kg/cap 2023 up 9.8% volatile
148 Marshall Islands 0.52 kg/cap 2023 volatile
149 Ecuador 0.5 kg/cap 2023 down 25.4% volatile
150 Kiribati 0.49 kg/cap 2023 up 40.0% volatile
151 New Caledonia 0.43 kg/cap 2023 down 45.6% volatile
152 Vanuatu 0.41 kg/cap 2023 volatile
153 China, Hong Kong SAR 0.34 kg/cap 2023 down 84.0% falling
154 Angola 0.27 kg/cap 2023 down 3.6% volatile
155 Madagascar 0.18 kg/cap 2023 down 30.8% falling
156 Papua New Guinea 0.17 kg/cap 2023 up 112.5% volatile
157 Cambodia 0.01 kg/cap 2023 unchanged volatile
158 Lesotho 0 kg/cap 2023 volatile

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Indicator
Onions — Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr)
Unit
kg/cap
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
205 places, 2,789 data points, 2010–2023
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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.