Spices, Other — 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
Spices, Other — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 165 countries. The highest value is 103.2 kcal/cap/d in Guyana; the lowest is 0.01 kcal/cap/d in Cambodia.
The median across all reporting countries is 2.64 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 7.59 kcal/cap/d.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 10,320.
Over the past decade 102 countries rose and 51 fell. The largest increase was in Eswatini (up 19,222.2%), and the largest decrease in Guinea-Bissau (down 90.0%).
Spices, Other — Food supply: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guyana | 103.2 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 377.1% | volatile |
| 1 | Türkiye | 55.79 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 185.8% | volatile |
| 2 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 57.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 105.4% | rising |
| 3 | Bhutan | 55.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 4 | Yemen | 51.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.8% | falling |
| 5 | Seychelles | 33.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 201.5% | rising |
| 6 | Qatar | 32.44 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 7 | Nepal | 27.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19.6% | rising |
| 8 | Grenada | 27.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 93.0% | rising |
| 9 | Bahrain | 26.44 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 10 | India | 23.51 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 77.2% | rising |
| 11 | Sri Lanka | 23.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 49.1% | rising |
| 12 | Maldives | 23.15 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.0% | rising |
| 13 | Saudi Arabia | 22.27 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.2% | flat |
| 14 | Bangladesh | 22.2 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 74.7% | rising |
| 15 | Oman | 21.48 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.4% | rising |
| 16 | Malaysia | 21.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 22.6% | rising |
| 17 | Bahamas | 21.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 40.4% | falling |
| 18 | Tonga | 20.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | flat |
| 19 | Kuwait | 20.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.3% | flat |
| 20 | Botswana | 18.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 37.3% | rising |
| 21 | Mauritius | 17.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 28.9% | rising |
| 22 | Eswatini | 17.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 19,222.2% | volatile |
| 23 | Ethiopia | 17.15 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.8% | flat |
| 24 | Antigua and Barbuda | 16.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 129.7% | volatile |
| 25 | Tunisia | 14.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.6% | falling |
| 26 | Fiji | 13.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 208.2% | rising |
| 27 | Nigeria | 13.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 24.6% | rising |
| 28 | Namibia | 13.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.2% | rising |
| 29 | Morocco | 13.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 37.4% | rising |
| 30 | Trinidad and Tobago | 12.83 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 34.8% | falling |
| 31 | Libya | 11.89 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 193.6% | volatile |
| 32 | China, Macao SAR | 11.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 253.7% | volatile |
| 33 | Barbados | 11.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 47.0% | rising |
| 34 | Saint Lucia | 10.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.5% | flat |
| 35 | Belgium | 9.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 82.8% | rising |
| 36 | United Arab Emirates | 9.61 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 67.0% | falling |
| 37 | Luxembourg | 9.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.3% | rising |
| 38 | Mexico | 9.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 65.2% | rising |
| 39 | Indonesia | 8.71 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 40 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 8.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 44.0% | rising |
| 41 | Estonia | 8.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 181.0% | rising |
| 42 | Denmark | 7.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.2% | rising |
| 43 | Lesotho | 7.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 15.7% | volatile |
| 44 | Belize | 7.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 550.9% | volatile |
| 45 | Iceland | 7.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 46 | Jordan | 6.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 39.8% | rising |
| 47 | Canada | 6.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 48 | Pakistan | 5.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 34.5% | rising |
| 49 | China, Taiwan Province of | 5.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.0% | falling |
| 50 | Thailand | 5.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 35.8% | falling |
| 51 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 5.55 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 52 | Sweden | 5.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 14.6% | rising |
| 53 | Jamaica | 5.28 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.9% | falling |
| 54 | Tuvalu | 5.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 55 | New Zealand | 5.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 56 | Suriname | 5.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 222.2% | volatile |
| 57 | Austria | 5.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 58 | Samoa | 4.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.9% | falling |
| 59 | North Macedonia | 4.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 26.6% | falling |
| 60 | Marshall Islands | 4.64 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 61 | Latvia | 4.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 64.2% | rising |
| 62 | Malta | 4.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 63.7% | rising |
| 63 | Australia and New Zealand | 4.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 74.3% | rising |
| 64 | Ireland | 4.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 38.4% | rising |
| 65 | Australia | 4.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 114.9% | rising |
| 66 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 4.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 33.2% | rising |
| 67 | Kenya | 3.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,216.7% | volatile |
| 68 | Germany | 3.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 20.6% | rising |
| 69 | Israel | 3.89 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 12.1% | rising |
| 70 | Portugal | 3.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 552.5% | volatile |
| 71 | Switzerland | 3.73 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 13.4% | rising |
| 72 | Cyprus | 3.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 65.3% | rising |
| 73 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 3.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 56.0% | falling |
| 74 | New Caledonia | 3.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 51.1% | rising |
| 75 | Iraq | 3.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 482.8% | volatile |
| 76 | Panama | 3.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 181.4% | volatile |
| 77 | Colombia | 3.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 20.5% | rising |
| 78 | Norway | 2.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 32.3% | rising |
| 79 | Djibouti | 2.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 9.7% | volatile |
| 80 | Republic of Korea | 2.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 65.5% | rising |
| 81 | Senegal | 2.87 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 744.1% | volatile |
| 82 | Cameroon | 2.64 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 44.1% | falling |
| 83 | Lebanon | 2.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.4% | rising |
| 84 | Vanuatu | 2.6 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 37.2% | falling |
| 85 | Solomon Islands | 2.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 31.7% | falling |
| 86 | Burkina Faso | 2.56 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 6.9% | flat |
| 87 | France | 2.51 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 75.5% | rising |
| 88 | Algeria | 2.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 89 | Afghanistan | 2.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 35.4% | rising |
| 90 | Poland | 2.37 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 196.2% | volatile |
| 91 | French Polynesia | 2.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 112.6% | rising |
| 92 | Dominican Republic | 2.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 93 | China | 2.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 78.3% | rising |
| 94 | Georgia | 2.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 9.4% | falling |
| 94 | Croatia | 2.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 170.5% | rising |
| 96 | Finland | 2.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 34.8% | rising |
| 97 | Kazakhstan | 2.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 379.1% | volatile |
| 97 | China, mainland | 2.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 85.6% | rising |
| 99 | Slovenia | 2.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.6% | flat |
| 100 | Slovakia | 1.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.7% | falling |
| 101 | Sao Tome and Principe | 1.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 23.0% | falling |
| 102 | Niger | 1.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 18.9% | falling |
| 103 | Uzbekistan | 1.71 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 338.5% | volatile |
| 104 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.7 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 13.7% | rising |
| 105 | Zambia | 1.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.7% | falling |
| 106 | Greece | 1.58 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.8% | falling |
| 107 | Lithuania | 1.57 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 79.4% | volatile |
| 108 | Sierra Leone | 1.56 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.3% | flat |
| 109 | Ecuador | 1.51 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 14.7% | rising |
| 110 | Gabon | 1.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2,216.7% | volatile |
| 111 | South Africa | 1.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 32.7% | rising |
| 112 | Egypt | 1.31 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 68.9% | falling |
| 113 | Philippines | 1.28 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.4% | rising |
| 114 | Honduras | 1.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | falling |
| 115 | Comoros | 1.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 61.0% | volatile |
| 116 | Costa Rica | 1.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 29.5% | falling |
| 116 | Guatemala | 1.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.2% | falling |
| 116 | Russian Federation | 1.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 123.6% | volatile |
| 119 | Hungary | 1.2 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 80.2% | volatile |
| 120 | Cuba | 1.18 kcal/cap/d | 2019 | up 37.2% | rising |
| 120 | Peru | 1.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.0% | falling |
| 122 | Argentina | 1.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 148.9% | rising |
| 123 | Azerbaijan | 1.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 73.8% | rising |
| 123 | Chile | 1.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 48.7% | rising |
| 123 | Czechia | 1.13 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 16.5% | rising |
| 126 | Nauru | 1.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 126 | Uruguay | 1.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 80.6% | rising |
| 128 | Montenegro | 1.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 141.3% | rising |
| 129 | Kyrgyzstan | 1.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 40.5% | rising |
| 130 | Armenia | 0.96 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 357.1% | volatile |
| 131 | Italy | 0.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 131.7% | volatile |
| 132 | Paraguay | 0.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 13.0% | rising |
| 133 | Bulgaria | 0.8 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 79.2% | volatile |
| 134 | Belarus | 0.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.6% | rising |
| 134 | Spain | 0.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.6% | falling |
| 136 | Serbia | 0.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 23.4% | rising |
| 137 | Brazil | 0.71 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 29.1% | rising |
| 138 | El Salvador | 0.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 13.1% | rising |
| 139 | Kiribati | 0.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.5% | volatile |
| 139 | Myanmar | 0.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | falling |
| 141 | Romania | 0.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 76.4% | volatile |
| 142 | Malawi | 0.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.8% | falling |
| 142 | Ukraine | 0.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 43.5% | volatile |
| 144 | Zimbabwe | 0.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.1% | falling |
| 145 | Papua New Guinea | 0.48 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 4.3% | flat |
| 146 | Ghana | 0.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.3% | flat |
| 147 | Mozambique | 0.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 166.7% | rising |
| 148 | Congo | 0.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 45.1% | volatile |
| 149 | Nicaragua | 0.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 10.8% | falling |
| 149 | Tajikistan | 0.33 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 151 | Albania | 0.3 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 66.3% | volatile |
| 152 | Liberia | 0.28 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 600.0% | volatile |
| 153 | Mauritania | 0.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2,200.0% | volatile |
| 154 | Rwanda | 0.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 24.1% | volatile |
| 155 | Madagascar | 0.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 300.0% | volatile |
| 156 | Gambia | 0.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 366.7% | volatile |
| 157 | Angola | 0.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.0% | rising |
| 157 | Haiti | 0.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 9.1% | rising |
| 159 | Turkmenistan | 0.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 160 | Mongolia | 0.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 50.0% | rising |
| 161 | Guinea | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 200.0% | volatile |
| 161 | Uganda | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 87.0% | falling |
| 163 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 90.0% | volatile |
| 163 | Cambodia | 0.01 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 Asia 29.67 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Asia 20.18 kcal/cap/d
- Syrian Arab Republic 17.59 kcal/cap/d
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 13.82 kcal/cap/d
- World 8.8 kcal/cap/d
- Asia 12.17 kcal/cap/d
- Western Africa 7.61 kcal/cap/d
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 8.41 kcal/cap/d
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 7.29 kcal/cap/d
- Central America 6.98 kcal/cap/d
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 6.87 kcal/cap/d
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 6.74 kcal/cap/d
- Polynesia 6.38 kcal/cap/d
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 6.15 kcal/cap/d
- Small island developing states (SIDS) 4.11 kcal/cap/d
- South-Eastern Asia 5.85 kcal/cap/d
- Timor-Leste 2.76 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Africa 5.38 kcal/cap/d
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2.57 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Europe 5.19 kcal/cap/d
- Melanesia 1.68 kcal/cap/d
- Africa 5.01 kcal/cap/d
- Republic of Moldova 1.67 kcal/cap/d
- Western Europe 4.28 kcal/cap/d
- Viet Nam 1.06 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Africa 3.95 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia 0.95 kcal/cap/d
- Northern America 3.92 kcal/cap/d
- Middle Africa 0.62 kcal/cap/d
- United States of America 3.67 kcal/cap/d
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.59 kcal/cap/d
- Oceania 3.59 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.36 kcal/cap/d
- Americas 3.34 kcal/cap/d
- United Republic of Tanzania 0.28 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Africa 2.92 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.07 kcal/cap/d
- European Union (27) 2.87 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 0.02 kcal/cap/d
- Europe 2.63 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.