Sorghum and products — Processing 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 — Processing is currently reported for 24 countries. The highest value is 450 1000 t in United States; the lowest is 0 1000 t in Lesotho.
The median across all reporting countries is 24.5 1000 t, and the mean is 81.71 1000 t.
Over the past decade 7 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Botswana (up 350.0%), and the largest decrease in Namibia (down 100.0%).
Sorghum and products — Processing: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 450 1000 t | 2023 | down 74.3% | volatile |
| 2 | United Republic of Tanzania | 297 1000 t | 2023 | down 15.9% | flat |
| 3 | Burkina Faso | 296 1000 t | 2023 | down 54.3% | falling |
| 4 | Nigeria | 236 1000 t | 2023 | up 44.8% | volatile |
| 5 | Uganda | 145 1000 t | 2023 | down 17.6% | falling |
| 6 | South Africa | 98 1000 t | 2023 | down 21.0% | falling |
| 7 | Kenya | 83 1000 t | 2023 | up 31.7% | rising |
| 8 | Ghana | 74 1000 t | 2023 | up 72.1% | rising |
| 9 | Malawi | 64 1000 t | 2023 | up 73.0% | rising |
| 10 | Cameroon | 58 1000 t | 2023 | down 70.1% | falling |
| 11 | Rwanda | 48 1000 t | 2023 | up 54.8% | rising |
| 12 | Botswana | 27 1000 t | 2023 | up 350.0% | volatile |
| 13 | Australia and New Zealand | 22 1000 t | 2023 | down 15.4% | falling |
| 13 | Australia | 22 1000 t | 2023 | down 15.4% | falling |
| 15 | Zimbabwe | 21 1000 t | 2023 | up 16.7% | rising |
| 16 | Angola | 12 1000 t | 2023 | down 73.9% | falling |
| 17 | Guinea-Bissau | 3 1000 t | 2023 | down 25.0% | rising |
| 18 | Melanesia | 1 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 18 | Zambia | 1 1000 t | 2023 | down 66.7% | falling |
| 18 | Eswatini | 1 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 18 | Papua New Guinea | 1 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 18 | Mozambique | 1 1000 t | 2023 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 23 | Namibia | 0 1000 t | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Lesotho | 0 1000 t | 2023 | 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.
- World 2,129 1000 t
- Africa 1,656 1000 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 1,207 1000 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 1,169 1000 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 1,058 1000 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 789 1000 t
- Western Africa 774 1000 t
- Eastern Africa 686 1000 t
- United States of America 450 1000 t
- Northern America 450 1000 t
- Americas 450 1000 t
- Southern Africa 126 1000 t
- Middle Africa 70 1000 t
- Oceania 23 1000 t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 4 1000 t
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.