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Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Phosphorus supply — Value by country

The dataset presents average daily per capita macro and micro nutrient availability by country and by FAO/WHO GIFT food groups (that are different from those used for the Food Balance Sheets), expressed in grams/milligrams/micrograms/kcal per capita per day. The population numbers used to calculate these statistics...

Countries reporting
168
Highest
487 mg/cap/d
Ghana
Lowest
6 mg/cap/d
Gambia
Median
57.5 mg/cap/d
Years covered
14
2010–2023
Data points
2,425

What the numbers show

Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Phosphorus supply — Value is currently reported for 168 countries. The highest value is 487 mg/cap/d in Ghana; the lowest is 6 mg/cap/d in Gambia.

The median across all reporting countries is 57.5 mg/cap/d, and the mean is 76.77 mg/cap/d.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 81.

Over the past decade 83 countries rose and 68 fell. The largest increase was in Zimbabwe (up 313.3%), and the largest decrease in Vanuatu (down 68.9%).

Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Phosphorus supply: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Ghana 487 mg/cap/d 2023 up 5.4% rising
1 Democratic Republic of the Congo 342 mg/cap/d 2023 down 3.1% falling
2 Solomon Islands 303 mg/cap/d 2023 down 20.1% falling
3 Rwanda 271 mg/cap/d 2023 down 4.6% flat
3 Cabo Verde 35 mg/cap/d 2023 down 23.9% falling
4 Angola 225 mg/cap/d 2023 up 0.4% falling
5 Nigeria 223 mg/cap/d 2023 unchanged flat
6 Fiji 221 mg/cap/d 2023 up 20.8% rising
7 Gabon 205 mg/cap/d 2023 down 13.9% falling
7 Türkiye 60 mg/cap/d 2023 up 7.1% flat
8 Cameroon 201 mg/cap/d 2023 up 9.2% rising
9 Guinea 196 mg/cap/d 2023 up 51.9% rising
10 Belarus 195 mg/cap/d 2023 down 7.6% falling
10 Timor-Leste 37 mg/cap/d 2023 down 26.0% falling
11 Congo 191 mg/cap/d 2023 down 5.4% flat
11 Namibia 191 mg/cap/d 2023 down 15.9% falling
13 Uganda 172 mg/cap/d 2023 down 0.6% flat
13 Viet Nam 16 mg/cap/d 2023 unchanged flat
14 Mozambique 171 mg/cap/d 2023 up 1.8% falling
14 Ukraine 171 mg/cap/d 2023 up 9.6% flat
16 Samoa 168 mg/cap/d 2023 down 20.4% falling
17 Papua New Guinea 164 mg/cap/d 2023 down 14.1% falling
18 Malawi 155 mg/cap/d 2023 down 25.1% falling
19 Tonga 151 mg/cap/d 2023 — rising
20 Peru 147 mg/cap/d 2023 up 0.7% flat
21 Sao Tome and Principe 134 mg/cap/d 2023 up 127.1% rising
22 Cuba 130 mg/cap/d 2019 up 3.2% rising
23 Sierra Leone 129 mg/cap/d 2023 down 2.3% falling
24 Comoros 124 mg/cap/d 2023 up 18.1% rising
24 Nepal 124 mg/cap/d 2023 up 22.8% rising
26 Eswatini 120 mg/cap/d 2023 up 16.5% rising
27 Bosnia and Herzegovina 118 mg/cap/d 2023 up 32.6% rising
27 Zambia 118 mg/cap/d 2023 up 87.3% rising
29 Guyana 117 mg/cap/d 2023 up 116.7% rising
29 Jamaica 117 mg/cap/d 2023 up 27.2% rising
31 Kyrgyzstan 116 mg/cap/d 2023 up 3.6% rising
32 Paraguay 114 mg/cap/d 2023 unchanged rising
33 Vanuatu 109 mg/cap/d 2023 down 68.9% falling
34 Belgium 108 mg/cap/d 2023 up 0.9% flat
34 Poland 108 mg/cap/d 2023 down 10.7% falling
34 Uzbekistan 108 mg/cap/d 2023 up 28.6% rising
37 Colombia 104 mg/cap/d 2023 down 8.0% flat
38 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 101 mg/cap/d 2023 down 1.0% flat
39 Liberia 100 mg/cap/d 2023 down 5.7% falling
40 Russian Federation 98 mg/cap/d 2023 down 25.2% falling
41 Azerbaijan 97 mg/cap/d 2023 up 14.1% rising
41 Canada 97 mg/cap/d 2023 down 11.8% falling
41 Madagascar 97 mg/cap/d 2023 down 14.2% falling
44 Ireland 92 mg/cap/d 2023 down 15.6% falling
44 Cambodia 92 mg/cap/d 2023 down 11.5% rising
46 North Macedonia 91 mg/cap/d 2023 up 23.0% rising
47 Guinea-Bissau 90 mg/cap/d 2023 up 30.4% flat
47 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 90 mg/cap/d 2023 down 15.1% falling
49 Bhutan 87 mg/cap/d 2023 — flat
50 Dominican Republic 85 mg/cap/d 2023 up 28.8% rising
51 Botswana 79 mg/cap/d 2023 down 13.2% flat
51 Germany 79 mg/cap/d 2023 up 14.5% flat
53 China, mainland 78 mg/cap/d 2023 up 1.3% flat
53 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 78 mg/cap/d 2023 down 33.3% falling
55 China 76 mg/cap/d 2023 up 1.3% flat
56 Turkmenistan 75 mg/cap/d 2023 up 97.4% rising
57 Armenia 74 mg/cap/d 2023 down 14.0% falling
58 Australia 73 mg/cap/d 2023 up 10.6% falling
58 Portugal 73 mg/cap/d 2023 down 9.9% falling
60 Barbados 71 mg/cap/d 2023 up 7.6% rising
60 Latvia 71 mg/cap/d 2023 down 49.3% falling
62 Algeria 69 mg/cap/d 2023 down 11.5% falling
62 Spain 69 mg/cap/d 2023 unchanged flat
62 Estonia 69 mg/cap/d 2023 down 20.7% falling
65 Lesotho 68 mg/cap/d 2023 up 4.6% rising
65 Romania 68 mg/cap/d 2023 down 46.0% falling
65 Sweden 68 mg/cap/d 2023 unchanged flat
68 Denmark 66 mg/cap/d 2023 up 4.8% rising
68 Serbia 66 mg/cap/d 2023 up 13.8% flat
70 Czechia 65 mg/cap/d 2023 down 27.0% falling
70 Finland 65 mg/cap/d 2023 down 12.2% falling
72 Bangladesh 62 mg/cap/d 2023 up 10.7% rising
72 Slovakia 62 mg/cap/d 2023 up 19.2% rising
72 Zimbabwe 62 mg/cap/d 2023 up 313.3% rising
75 France 61 mg/cap/d 2023 unchanged flat
75 Kenya 61 mg/cap/d 2023 down 15.3% falling
75 Slovenia 61 mg/cap/d 2023 down 6.2% falling
78 Albania 59 mg/cap/d 2023 up 15.7% rising
78 Georgia 59 mg/cap/d 2023 down 20.3% falling
78 Greece 59 mg/cap/d 2023 down 33.0% falling
81 Lebanon 58 mg/cap/d 2023 up 11.5% rising
81 Lithuania 58 mg/cap/d 2023 down 49.1% falling
83 New Zealand 57 mg/cap/d 2023 down 12.3% falling
83 Trinidad and Tobago 57 mg/cap/d 2023 up 9.6% falling
83 Uruguay 57 mg/cap/d 2023 down 5.0% flat
86 Croatia 56 mg/cap/d 2023 up 12.0% flat
86 Kazakhstan 56 mg/cap/d 2023 down 12.5% flat
86 French Polynesia 56 mg/cap/d 2023 down 24.3% falling
89 Chile 55 mg/cap/d 2023 down 24.7% falling
90 Saint Kitts and Nevis 54 mg/cap/d 2023 up 14.9% rising
91 Mongolia 53 mg/cap/d 2023 unchanged falling
92 Switzerland 52 mg/cap/d 2023 up 8.3% rising
92 Indonesia 52 mg/cap/d 2023 down 28.8% falling
94 Italy 51 mg/cap/d 2023 up 18.6% rising
95 Saint Lucia 48 mg/cap/d 2023 up 17.1% rising
95 Tajikistan 48 mg/cap/d 2023 up 14.3% rising
97 Iceland 47 mg/cap/d 2023 up 9.3% falling
97 Morocco 47 mg/cap/d 2023 down 11.3% falling
99 Austria 46 mg/cap/d 2023 down 27.0% falling
99 Malta 46 mg/cap/d 2023 down 17.9% falling
99 Panama 46 mg/cap/d 2023 up 27.8% rising
102 Argentina 45 mg/cap/d 2023 down 16.7% falling
102 Brazil 45 mg/cap/d 2023 down 6.2% falling
104 Egypt 44 mg/cap/d 2023 up 22.2% rising
105 Haiti 43 mg/cap/d 2023 down 58.3% falling
105 Senegal 43 mg/cap/d 2023 up 186.7% rising
107 Luxembourg 42 mg/cap/d 2023 down 33.3% falling
107 Montenegro 42 mg/cap/d 2023 up 27.3% rising
107 Qatar 42 mg/cap/d 2023 — falling
107 Seychelles 42 mg/cap/d 2023 up 40.0% flat
111 Hungary 41 mg/cap/d 2023 down 26.8% falling
111 Sri Lanka 41 mg/cap/d 2023 up 36.7% rising
111 New Caledonia 41 mg/cap/d 2023 down 2.4% falling
114 Ecuador 40 mg/cap/d 2023 up 2.6% falling
114 Israel 40 mg/cap/d 2023 down 14.9% falling
116 Kuwait 39 mg/cap/d 2023 down 37.1% falling
116 Oman 39 mg/cap/d 2023 up 39.3% rising
116 South Africa 39 mg/cap/d 2023 unchanged rising
119 Bahrain 38 mg/cap/d 2023 — flat
120 Costa Rica 37 mg/cap/d 2023 down 2.6% falling
120 Saudi Arabia 37 mg/cap/d 2023 up 27.6% rising
122 El Salvador 36 mg/cap/d 2023 unchanged rising
123 Antigua and Barbuda 35 mg/cap/d 2023 up 40.0% rising
123 Cyprus 35 mg/cap/d 2023 up 9.4% falling
123 Guatemala 35 mg/cap/d 2023 up 169.2% rising
123 India 35 mg/cap/d 2023 up 12.9% rising
123 Pakistan 35 mg/cap/d 2023 up 75.0% rising
123 Tunisia 35 mg/cap/d 2023 unchanged falling
123 Tuvalu 35 mg/cap/d 2023 — rising
130 Ethiopia 34 mg/cap/d 2023 down 5.6% flat
130 Mauritius 34 mg/cap/d 2023 up 17.2% rising
132 Grenada 32 mg/cap/d 2023 down 11.1% falling
132 Libya 32 mg/cap/d 2023 up 3.2% falling
132 Nicaragua 32 mg/cap/d 2023 up 23.1% rising
135 Afghanistan 31 mg/cap/d 2023 up 82.4% rising
136 United Arab Emirates 30 mg/cap/d 2023 up 87.5% rising
136 Jordan 30 mg/cap/d 2023 up 3.4% falling
138 Bulgaria 29 mg/cap/d 2023 up 3.6% falling
138 Maldives 29 mg/cap/d 2023 up 7.4% falling
138 Norway 29 mg/cap/d 2023 down 51.7% falling
138 Suriname 29 mg/cap/d 2023 down 37.0% falling
142 Philippines 28 mg/cap/d 2023 up 100.0% rising
143 Niger 24 mg/cap/d 2023 up 71.4% rising
143 China, Macao SAR 24 mg/cap/d 2023 up 14.3% rising
145 Kiribati 23 mg/cap/d 2023 down 8.0% falling
146 Mexico 22 mg/cap/d 2023 up 10.0% rising
146 Myanmar 22 mg/cap/d 2023 down 21.4% falling
148 Bahamas 21 mg/cap/d 2023 up 31.2% falling
148 Malaysia 21 mg/cap/d 2023 up 50.0% rising
148 Republic of Korea 21 mg/cap/d 2023 up 10.5% rising
151 Belize 18 mg/cap/d 2023 down 5.3% falling
151 China, Hong Kong SAR 18 mg/cap/d 2023 up 50.0% rising
153 Djibouti 17 mg/cap/d 2023 up 6.2% rising
153 Honduras 17 mg/cap/d 2023 up 30.8% rising
153 China, Taiwan Province of 17 mg/cap/d 2023 up 13.3% rising
156 Mauritania 14 mg/cap/d 2023 up 27.3% rising
157 Thailand 11 mg/cap/d 2023 up 10.0% rising
158 Iraq 10 mg/cap/d 2023 down 50.0% falling
159 Burkina Faso 9 mg/cap/d 2023 down 40.0% falling
160 Naoero 8 mg/cap/d 2023 — falling
160 Yemen 8 mg/cap/d 2023 down 33.3% falling
162 Marshall Islands 7 mg/cap/d 2023 — rising
163 Gambia 6 mg/cap/d 2023 up 20.0% flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Phosphorus supply — Value
Unit
mg/cap/d
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
179 places, 2,425 data points, 2010–2023
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The dataset presents average daily per capita macro and micro nutrient availability by country and by FAO/WHO GIFT food groups (that are different from those used for the Food Balance Sheets), expressed in grams/milligrams/micrograms/kcal per capita per day. The population numbers used to calculate these statistics can be found in the Supply Utilization Accounts (SUA) dataset of FAOSTAT, as Total Population. Food availability quantities are derived from the SUA dataset. SUAs present a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply and utilization during a specified reference period. The SUA 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 capita 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.