Silk — Stock Variation by country

Countries reporting

Highest

5 t

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Lowest

0 t

Brazil

Median

0 t

Years covered

1961–2013

Data points

1,767

What the numbers show

Silk — Stock Variation is currently reported for 17 countries. The highest value is 5 t in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; the lowest is 0 t in Brazil.

The median across all reporting countries is 0 t, and the mean is 0.2941 t.

Over the past decade 3 countries rose and 4 fell. The largest increase was in Malaysia (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in United Republic of Tanzania (down 100.0%).

Silk — Stock Variation: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	5 t	2013	—	flat
2	Azerbaijan	0 t	2013	—	flat
2	China, Macao SAR	0 t	2013	—	flat
2	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	0 t	2013	—	flat
2	United Republic of Tanzania	0 t	2013	down 100.0%	flat
2	Malaysia	0 t	2013	up 100.0%	flat
2	Kyrgyzstan	0 t	2013	up 100.0%	flat
2	Japan	0 t	2013	—	flat
2	France	0 t	2013	—	flat
2	Spain	0 t	2013	—	flat
2	Denmark	0 t	2013	down 100.0%	flat
2	Indonesia	0 t	2013	down 100.0%	volatile
2	Germany	0 t	2013	up 100.0%	flat
2	Belgium	0 t	2013	—	flat
2	Bulgaria	0 t	2013	—	flat
2	Switzerland	0 t	2013	down 100.0%	flat
2	Brazil	0 t	2013	—	flat

Regions and income groups

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

Northern Europe 5 t
Europe 5 t
World 5 t
Africa 0 t
Net Food Importing Developing Countries 0 t
Low Income Food Deficit Countries 0 t
Land Locked Developing Countries 0 t
Western Asia 0 t
South-eastern Asia 0 t
Eastern Asia 0 t
Southern Europe 0 t
Eastern Africa 0 t

About this data

Indicator: Silk — Stock Variation
Unit: t
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage: 37 places, 1,767 data points, 1961–2013
Last refreshed: 13 August 2026

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 caput 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.