Sorghum and products — 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
Sorghum and products — Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr) is currently reported for 59 countries. The highest value is 51.41 kg/cap in Burkina Faso; the lowest is 0 kg/cap in Afghanistan.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.82 kg/cap, and the mean is 5.3 kg/cap.
Over the past decade 16 countries rose and 33 fell. The largest increase was in Madagascar (up 628.6%), and the largest decrease in Ukraine (down 100.0%).
Sorghum and products — Food supply quantity: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burkina Faso | 51.41 kg/cap | 2023 | down 6.3% | flat |
| 2 | Niger | 48.13 kg/cap | 2023 | down 5.7% | rising |
| 3 | Cameroon | 32.01 kg/cap | 2023 | up 9.4% | flat |
| 4 | Nigeria | 24.84 kg/cap | 2023 | down 14.6% | falling |
| 5 | Ethiopia | 23.31 kg/cap | 2023 | down 6.5% | flat |
| 6 | Mauritania | 13.42 kg/cap | 2023 | down 29.8% | falling |
| 7 | Senegal | 13.18 kg/cap | 2023 | up 120.4% | rising |
| 8 | Rwanda | 12.16 kg/cap | 2023 | up 22.8% | rising |
| 9 | El Salvador | 11.84 kg/cap | 2023 | down 29.2% | falling |
| 9 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0.08 kg/cap | 2023 | up 33.3% | rising |
| 10 | Botswana | 10.7 kg/cap | 2023 | down 50.5% | volatile |
| 11 | Ghana | 8.75 kg/cap | 2023 | up 38.7% | rising |
| 11 | Viet Nam | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 12 | Guinea-Bissau | 8.22 kg/cap | 2023 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 13 | Yemen | 4.37 kg/cap | 2023 | down 64.4% | volatile |
| 14 | Sierra Leone | 4.17 kg/cap | 2023 | up 63.5% | rising |
| 15 | Saudi Arabia | 3.91 kg/cap | 2023 | up 5.7% | falling |
| 16 | Belize | 3.65 kg/cap | 2023 | down 4.7% | falling |
| 17 | Mozambique | 3.49 kg/cap | 2023 | down 55.5% | falling |
| 18 | Zimbabwe | 3.34 kg/cap | 2023 | down 3.7% | flat |
| 19 | China, mainland | 3.19 kg/cap | 2023 | up 76.2% | rising |
| 20 | China | 3.13 kg/cap | 2023 | up 76.8% | rising |
| 21 | Kenya | 3.12 kg/cap | 2023 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 22 | Egypt | 2.96 kg/cap | 2023 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 23 | Malawi | 2.48 kg/cap | 2023 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 24 | India | 2.2 kg/cap | 2023 | down 37.5% | falling |
| 25 | Myanmar | 1.86 kg/cap | 2023 | up 13.4% | rising |
| 26 | Eswatini | 1.83 kg/cap | 2023 | down 38.8% | falling |
| 27 | Gambia | 1.48 kg/cap | 2023 | down 87.3% | volatile |
| 28 | Lesotho | 1.41 kg/cap | 2023 | down 43.1% | volatile |
| 29 | Uganda | 1.14 kg/cap | 2023 | down 15.6% | volatile |
| 30 | Djibouti | 0.82 kg/cap | 2023 | down 73.5% | volatile |
| 31 | Namibia | 0.77 kg/cap | 2023 | down 66.4% | falling |
| 32 | Haiti | 0.66 kg/cap | 2023 | down 84.1% | volatile |
| 33 | South Africa | 0.56 kg/cap | 2023 | down 67.1% | volatile |
| 34 | Guinea | 0.54 kg/cap | 2023 | up 22.7% | rising |
| 34 | Honduras | 0.54 kg/cap | 2023 | down 71.1% | falling |
| 36 | Papua New Guinea | 0.52 kg/cap | 2023 | down 78.3% | falling |
| 37 | Madagascar | 0.51 kg/cap | 2023 | up 628.6% | volatile |
| 38 | Guatemala | 0.44 kg/cap | 2023 | down 31.2% | falling |
| 39 | Nicaragua | 0.39 kg/cap | 2023 | down 77.6% | falling |
| 40 | Tunisia | 0.29 kg/cap | 2023 | down 53.2% | falling |
| 41 | Bahrain | 0.26 kg/cap | 2023 | — | falling |
| 42 | Zambia | 0.17 kg/cap | 2023 | down 62.2% | falling |
| 43 | Pakistan | 0.15 kg/cap | 2023 | down 69.4% | falling |
| 43 | Qatar | 0.15 kg/cap | 2023 | — | falling |
| 45 | Russian Federation | 0.02 kg/cap | 2023 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 45 | Australia | 0.02 kg/cap | 2023 | down 97.3% | volatile |
| 45 | Algeria | 0.02 kg/cap | 2023 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 48 | Sri Lanka | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 48 | Australia and New Zealand | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | down 98.4% | volatile |
| 48 | Colombia | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | down 66.7% | falling |
| 48 | Turkmenistan | 0.01 kg/cap | 2021 | — | volatile |
| 48 | Seychelles | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 48 | Morocco | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 54 | Ukraine | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 54 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 54 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 54 | Afghanistan | 0 kg/cap | 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 22.33 kg/cap
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 10.32 kg/cap
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 14.07 kg/cap
- Middle Africa 8.69 kg/cap
- Africa 13.05 kg/cap
- United Republic of Tanzania 4.45 kg/cap
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 12.25 kg/cap
- Asia 1.73 kg/cap
- Northern Africa 10.19 kg/cap
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1.16 kg/cap
- Eastern Africa 9.71 kg/cap
- Small island developing states (SIDS) 0.52 kg/cap
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 6.99 kg/cap
- Melanesia 0.42 kg/cap
- World 3.45 kg/cap
- Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.14 kg/cap
- Eastern Asia 2.76 kg/cap
- Côte d'Ivoire 2.02 kg/cap
- Micronesia 0.05 kg/cap
- Southern Asia 1.57 kg/cap
- Western Asia 1.02 kg/cap
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 0 kg/cap
- Southern Africa 0.96 kg/cap
- United States of America 0.58 kg/cap
- Northern America 0.52 kg/cap
- Central America 0.51 kg/cap
- Americas 0.29 kg/cap
- South-Eastern Asia 0.28 kg/cap
- Caribbean 0.19 kg/cap
- Oceania 0.13 kg/cap
- Eastern Europe 0.01 kg/cap
- Europe 0 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.