Plantains — Feed 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
Plantains — Feed is currently reported for 25 countries. The highest value is 310 1000 t in Colombia; the lowest is 0 1000 t in Saint Lucia.
The median across all reporting countries is 6 1000 t, and the mean is 30.32 1000 t.
Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 5 fell. The largest increase was in Guyana (up 1,100.0%), and the largest decrease in Democratic Republic of the Congo (down 100.0%).
Plantains — Feed: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colombia | 310 1000 t | 2023 | down 16.7% | falling |
| 2 | Caribbean | 73 1000 t | 2023 | up 37.7% | flat |
| 3 | Haiti | 69 1000 t | 2023 | up 38.0% | flat |
| 4 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 65 1000 t | 2023 | up 85.7% | rising |
| 5 | Guatemala | 60 1000 t | 2023 | up 900.0% | volatile |
| 6 | Nicaragua | 39 1000 t | 2023 | up 457.1% | volatile |
| 7 | Guyana | 36 1000 t | 2023 | up 1,100.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 31 1000 t | 2023 | up 14.8% | rising |
| 9 | Panama | 24 1000 t | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 10 | United Republic of Tanzania | 11 1000 t | 2023 | down 8.3% | falling |
| 10 | Ecuador | 11 1000 t | 2023 | up 57.1% | falling |
| 12 | Bahrain | 6 1000 t | 2023 | — | falling |
| 12 | Honduras | 6 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 14 | Costa Rica | 5 1000 t | 2023 | down 16.7% | falling |
| 14 | El Salvador | 5 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 16 | Qatar | 3 1000 t | 2023 | — | falling |
| 17 | Kuwait | 2 1000 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 18 | Belize | 1 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 18 | Suriname | 1 1000 t | 2023 | down 75.0% | falling |
| 20 | Cuba | 0 1000 t | 2019 | — | flat |
| 20 | Melanesia | 0 1000 t | 2023 | — | flat |
| 20 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0 1000 t | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 20 | Gabon | 0 1000 t | 2021 | — | flat |
| 20 | New Caledonia | 0 1000 t | 2023 | — | flat |
| 20 | Saint Lucia | 0 1000 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 688 1000 t
- Americas 665 1000 t
- South America 454 1000 t
- Central America 139 1000 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 126 1000 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 118 1000 t
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 110 1000 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 80 1000 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 65 1000 t
- Western Asia 12 1000 t
- Asia 12 1000 t
- Africa 11 1000 t
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.