Roots, Other — 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...
What the numbers show
Roots, Other — Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr) is currently reported for 121 countries. The highest value is 97.57 kg/cap in Namibia; the lowest is 0 kg/cap in Uruguay.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.94 kg/cap, and the mean is 8.24 kg/cap.
Over the past decade 29 countries rose and 64 fell. The largest increase was in Mauritius (up 240.4%), and the largest decrease in Armenia (down 100.0%).
Roots, Other — Food supply quantity: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Namibia | 97.57 kg/cap | 2023 | down 15.2% | falling |
| 2 | Samoa | 89.16 kg/cap | 2023 | down 14.2% | falling |
| 3 | Fiji | 72.45 kg/cap | 2023 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 4 | Papua New Guinea | 57.37 kg/cap | 2023 | down 16.3% | falling |
| 5 | Solomon Islands | 57.23 kg/cap | 2023 | down 23.8% | falling |
| 6 | Eswatini | 50.18 kg/cap | 2023 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 7 | Bhutan | 39.32 kg/cap | 2023 | — | flat |
| 8 | Botswana | 39.09 kg/cap | 2023 | down 8.9% | falling |
| 8 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 39.09 kg/cap | 2023 | up 7.3% | falling |
| 10 | Tonga | 37.23 kg/cap | 2023 | — | rising |
| 11 | Ghana | 32.51 kg/cap | 2023 | down 1.5% | falling |
| 12 | Vanuatu | 32.19 kg/cap | 2023 | down 83.3% | falling |
| 13 | Cameroon | 32.07 kg/cap | 2023 | up 26.4% | rising |
| 14 | Guinea-Bissau | 29.58 kg/cap | 2023 | up 16.2% | rising |
| 15 | Sao Tome and Principe | 28.81 kg/cap | 2023 | up 20.2% | flat |
| 16 | Gabon | 28.8 kg/cap | 2023 | up 15.5% | rising |
| 17 | Guyana | 16.93 kg/cap | 2023 | up 20.9% | rising |
| 18 | Tuvalu | 15.21 kg/cap | 2023 | — | rising |
| 19 | Nigeria | 14.78 kg/cap | 2023 | up 83.8% | rising |
| 20 | Comoros | 14.76 kg/cap | 2023 | up 2.3% | flat |
| 21 | Rwanda | 12.72 kg/cap | 2023 | up 68.3% | rising |
| 22 | Kiribati | 12.15 kg/cap | 2023 | down 14.7% | falling |
| 23 | Congo | 9.25 kg/cap | 2023 | down 12.5% | falling |
| 24 | Ethiopia | 9.13 kg/cap | 2023 | up 18.6% | rising |
| 25 | Jamaica | 9.03 kg/cap | 2023 | up 14.3% | rising |
| 26 | Cuba | 8.74 kg/cap | 2019 | up 19.9% | rising |
| 27 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 8.22 kg/cap | 2023 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 28 | Saint Lucia | 8.11 kg/cap | 2023 | up 19.1% | flat |
| 29 | El Salvador | 6.98 kg/cap | 2023 | up 10.3% | rising |
| 30 | Peru | 6.36 kg/cap | 2023 | down 10.4% | falling |
| 31 | Guinea | 5.84 kg/cap | 2023 | down 15.5% | falling |
| 32 | Liberia | 4.87 kg/cap | 2023 | down 9.5% | volatile |
| 33 | Thailand | 4.82 kg/cap | 2023 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 34 | Trinidad and Tobago | 4.64 kg/cap | 2023 | down 38.7% | falling |
| 35 | Nepal | 4.49 kg/cap | 2023 | down 7.2% | flat |
| 36 | Haiti | 4.19 kg/cap | 2023 | down 12.3% | falling |
| 37 | Dominican Republic | 4.11 kg/cap | 2023 | up 65.7% | rising |
| 38 | Madagascar | 3.99 kg/cap | 2023 | down 15.3% | falling |
| 39 | China, Macao SAR | 3.86 kg/cap | 2023 | down 45.4% | falling |
| 40 | Grenada | 2.95 kg/cap | 2023 | down 56.7% | falling |
| 41 | Sri Lanka | 2.69 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 42 | Malaysia | 2.53 kg/cap | 2023 | up 178.0% | volatile |
| 43 | Cambodia | 2.15 kg/cap | 2023 | down 7.3% | falling |
| 44 | China, Taiwan Province of | 2.09 kg/cap | 2023 | down 9.5% | falling |
| 45 | Pakistan | 1.99 kg/cap | 2023 | up 1.0% | falling |
| 46 | Mauritius | 1.94 kg/cap | 2023 | up 240.4% | volatile |
| 47 | Suriname | 1.61 kg/cap | 2023 | down 47.9% | falling |
| 48 | Colombia | 1.3 kg/cap | 2023 | down 13.9% | rising |
| 49 | Antigua and Barbuda | 1.24 kg/cap | 2023 | down 13.9% | rising |
| 50 | Panama | 1.22 kg/cap | 2023 | up 67.1% | rising |
| 51 | Egypt | 1.19 kg/cap | 2023 | up 30.8% | rising |
| 52 | Mexico | 1.15 kg/cap | 2023 | down 8.0% | flat |
| 53 | Costa Rica | 1.14 kg/cap | 2023 | down 71.0% | falling |
| 54 | China | 1.11 kg/cap | 2023 | down 4.3% | falling |
| 55 | China, mainland | 1.1 kg/cap | 2023 | down 3.5% | falling |
| 56 | Indonesia | 1.08 kg/cap | 2023 | down 20.6% | falling |
| 57 | Serbia | 1.04 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 58 | Nicaragua | 1.01 kg/cap | 2023 | down 72.3% | falling |
| 59 | Philippines | 0.99 kg/cap | 2023 | down 14.7% | falling |
| 60 | Ecuador | 0.95 kg/cap | 2023 | up 115.9% | rising |
| 61 | New Zealand | 0.94 kg/cap | 2023 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 62 | New Caledonia | 0.83 kg/cap | 2023 | down 7.8% | falling |
| 63 | French Polynesia | 0.59 kg/cap | 2023 | down 96.3% | falling |
| 64 | Israel | 0.49 kg/cap | 2023 | down 15.5% | rising |
| 65 | Barbados | 0.44 kg/cap | 2023 | down 64.2% | falling |
| 66 | Bahrain | 0.4 kg/cap | 2023 | — | falling |
| 67 | Naoero | 0.38 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 68 | Belize | 0.37 kg/cap | 2023 | down 57.0% | volatile |
| 68 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 0.37 kg/cap | 2023 | up 15.6% | flat |
| 70 | Kenya | 0.3 kg/cap | 2023 | down 21.1% | falling |
| 70 | Sierra Leone | 0.3 kg/cap | 2023 | down 23.1% | falling |
| 72 | Mozambique | 0.27 kg/cap | 2023 | down 20.6% | falling |
| 73 | Oman | 0.26 kg/cap | 2023 | down 46.9% | volatile |
| 74 | Seychelles | 0.25 kg/cap | 2023 | down 24.2% | rising |
| 74 | Australia and New Zealand | 0.25 kg/cap | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 76 | Maldives | 0.21 kg/cap | 2023 | down 95.9% | volatile |
| 77 | Saudi Arabia | 0.2 kg/cap | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 78 | Canada | 0.18 kg/cap | 2023 | down 10.0% | falling |
| 79 | Qatar | 0.16 kg/cap | 2023 | — | falling |
| 80 | Lebanon | 0.15 kg/cap | 2023 | down 6.2% | falling |
| 81 | Iraq | 0.14 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 82 | Australia | 0.12 kg/cap | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 83 | Honduras | 0.1 kg/cap | 2023 | down 81.1% | falling |
| 84 | United Arab Emirates | 0.09 kg/cap | 2023 | down 79.1% | falling |
| 84 | Marshall Islands | 0.09 kg/cap | 2023 | — | rising |
| 86 | Zimbabwe | 0.07 kg/cap | 2023 | down 12.5% | falling |
| 87 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 0.06 kg/cap | 2023 | up 50.0% | volatile |
| 88 | Slovenia | 0.05 kg/cap | 2023 | down 97.5% | volatile |
| 88 | Uganda | 0.05 kg/cap | 2023 | down 44.4% | volatile |
| 90 | France | 0.04 kg/cap | 2023 | down 90.9% | volatile |
| 90 | Montenegro | 0.04 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 92 | Austria | 0.03 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 92 | Switzerland | 0.03 kg/cap | 2023 | down 40.0% | falling |
| 92 | Gambia | 0.03 kg/cap | 2023 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 92 | Iceland | 0.03 kg/cap | 2023 | up 200.0% | volatile |
| 92 | Kuwait | 0.03 kg/cap | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 92 | Libya | 0.03 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 98 | Cyprus | 0.02 kg/cap | 2023 | down 98.4% | volatile |
| 98 | Republic of Korea | 0.02 kg/cap | 2023 | down 60.0% | rising |
| 98 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 0.02 kg/cap | 2023 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 101 | Belgium | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Burkina Faso | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 101 | Bahamas | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | down 93.3% | volatile |
| 101 | Italy | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 101 | Jordan | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Armenia | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Bangladesh | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Chile | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Djibouti | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Estonia | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Georgia | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Croatia | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Hungary | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Kyrgyzstan | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Lesotho | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Latvia | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Malta | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Niger | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Romania | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Senegal | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Uruguay | 0 kg/cap | 2021 | 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 56.53 kg/cap
- Oceania 16.62 kg/cap
- Polynesia 38.43 kg/cap
- Western Africa 10.68 kg/cap
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 17.01 kg/cap
- Southern Africa 6.2 kg/cap
- Timor-Leste 14.09 kg/cap
- Africa 5.98 kg/cap
- Middle Africa 9.18 kg/cap
- Caribbean 4.88 kg/cap
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 7.3 kg/cap
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 3.55 kg/cap
- Micronesia 5.16 kg/cap
- Eastern Africa 3.27 kg/cap
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 4.51 kg/cap
- Côte d'Ivoire 3.22 kg/cap
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 3.22 kg/cap
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 4.24 kg/cap
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2.81 kg/cap
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 2.66 kg/cap
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 2.52 kg/cap
- World 1.74 kg/cap
- South-Eastern Asia 1.39 kg/cap
- Asia 0.73 kg/cap
- Central America 1.17 kg/cap
- Viet Nam 0.07 kg/cap
- South America 1.1 kg/cap
- United Republic of Tanzania 0.03 kg/cap
- Eastern Asia 1.08 kg/cap
- Türkiye 0 kg/cap
- Americas 0.92 kg/cap
- Northern Africa 0.51 kg/cap
- Southern Asia 0.35 kg/cap
- Northern America 0.18 kg/cap
- United States of America 0.18 kg/cap
- Western Asia 0.07 kg/cap
- Southern Europe 0.05 kg/cap
- Europe 0.02 kg/cap
- Western Europe 0.02 kg/cap
- European Union (27) 0.01 kg/cap
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.