Sorghum and products — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) 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
Sorghum and products — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 65 countries. The highest value is 392.1 kcal/cap/d in Burkina Faso; the lowest is 0 kcal/cap/d in Mongolia.
The median across all reporting countries is 5.08 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 39.9 kcal/cap/d.
Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 35 fell. The largest increase was in Madagascar (up 635.8%), and the largest decrease in Liberia (down 100.0%).
Sorghum and products — Food supply: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burkina Faso | 392.1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.3% | flat |
| 2 | Niger | 390.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 3 | Cameroon | 274.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 9.4% | flat |
| 4 | Nigeria | 201.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.6% | falling |
| 5 | Ethiopia | 200.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.5% | flat |
| 6 | Mauritania | 115.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 29.8% | falling |
| 7 | Rwanda | 110.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 22.9% | rising |
| 8 | El Salvador | 107.28 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 29.2% | falling |
| 9 | Senegal | 106.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 120.4% | rising |
| 9 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0.64 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 30.6% | rising |
| 10 | Botswana | 91.82 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 50.5% | volatile |
| 11 | Ghana | 70.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 38.6% | rising |
| 11 | Viet Nam | 0.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 12 | Guinea-Bissau | 66.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 13 | Yemen | 37.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 64.4% | volatile |
| 14 | Saudi Arabia | 35.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 5.7% | falling |
| 15 | Belize | 34.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.7% | falling |
| 16 | Sierra Leone | 33.8 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 63.6% | rising |
| 17 | Mozambique | 29.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 55.5% | falling |
| 18 | Kenya | 26.8 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 19 | Zimbabwe | 26.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.7% | flat |
| 20 | Egypt | 25.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.6% | rising |
| 21 | China, mainland | 24.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 76.2% | rising |
| 22 | China | 23.84 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 76.3% | rising |
| 23 | Malawi | 22.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 8.0% | rising |
| 24 | India | 19.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 37.5% | falling |
| 25 | Myanmar | 17.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 13.4% | rising |
| 26 | Eswatini | 15.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 38.9% | falling |
| 27 | Gambia | 12.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 87.3% | volatile |
| 28 | Lesotho | 11.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 43.2% | volatile |
| 29 | Uganda | 10.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.9% | volatile |
| 30 | Namibia | 6.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 66.3% | falling |
| 31 | Djibouti | 6.27 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 73.4% | volatile |
| 32 | Haiti | 6.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 83.8% | volatile |
| 33 | South Africa | 5.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 65.2% | volatile |
| 34 | Honduras | 4.87 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 71.3% | falling |
| 35 | Guinea | 4.27 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 23.4% | rising |
| 36 | Guatemala | 4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 31.3% | falling |
| 37 | Papua New Guinea | 3.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 78.5% | falling |
| 38 | Madagascar | 3.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 635.8% | volatile |
| 39 | Nicaragua | 3.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 77.3% | falling |
| 40 | Bahrain | 2.44 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 41 | Tunisia | 2.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 53.3% | falling |
| 42 | Zambia | 1.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 61.6% | falling |
| 43 | Qatar | 1.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 44 | Pakistan | 1.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 69.0% | falling |
| 45 | Algeria | 0.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 41.4% | volatile |
| 46 | Colombia | 0.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 56.2% | falling |
| 46 | Russian Federation | 0.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 27.3% | volatile |
| 48 | Australia | 0.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 98.0% | volatile |
| 49 | Seychelles | 0.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 20.0% | volatile |
| 50 | Australia and New Zealand | 0.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 98.0% | volatile |
| 50 | Turkmenistan | 0.11 kcal/cap/d | 2021 | — | volatile |
| 52 | Sri Lanka | 0.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 60.0% | volatile |
| 53 | Morocco | 0.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 44.4% | volatile |
| 54 | Afghanistan | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 54 | Bangladesh | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 54 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 57 | Uzbekistan | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 57 | Liberia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 57 | Gabon | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 57 | Vanuatu | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 57 | Ukraine | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 57 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 57 | Mongolia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Western Africa 179.74 kcal/cap/d
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 86.93 kcal/cap/d
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 117.5 kcal/cap/d
- Middle Africa 72.59 kcal/cap/d
- Africa 108.72 kcal/cap/d
- United Republic of Tanzania 40.34 kcal/cap/d
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 103.18 kcal/cap/d
- Asia 14.32 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Africa 87.75 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 8.27 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Africa 85.03 kcal/cap/d
- Small island developing states (SIDS) 4.33 kcal/cap/d
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 59.01 kcal/cap/d
- Melanesia 3.21 kcal/cap/d
- World 28.68 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia (Federated States of) 1.37 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Asia 21.02 kcal/cap/d
- Côte d'Ivoire 16.36 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia 0.49 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Asia 14.19 kcal/cap/d
- Western Asia 8.95 kcal/cap/d
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.01 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Africa 8.51 kcal/cap/d
- United States of America 5.49 kcal/cap/d
- Northern America 4.93 kcal/cap/d
- Central America 4.62 kcal/cap/d
- Americas 2.7 kcal/cap/d
- South-Eastern Asia 2.47 kcal/cap/d
- Caribbean 1.79 kcal/cap/d
- Oceania 0.98 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Europe 0.07 kcal/cap/d
- Europe 0.03 kcal/cap/d
- South America 0.02 kcal/cap/d
- Central Asia 0 kcal/cap/d
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.