Statizoid

Starchy Roots — Protein supply quantity (g/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...

Countries reporting
164
Highest
16.9 g/cap/d
Ghana
Lowest
0.22 g/cap/d
Gambia, The
Median
2.05 g/cap/d
Years covered
14
2010–2023
Data points
2,901

What the numbers show

Starchy Roots — Protein supply quantity (g/capita/day) is currently reported for 164 countries. The highest value is 16.9 g/cap/d in Ghana; the lowest is 0.22 g/cap/d in Gambia, The.

The median across all reporting countries is 2.05 g/cap/d, and the mean is 2.47 g/cap/d.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 77.

Over the past decade 80 countries rose and 74 fell. The largest increase was in Zimbabwe (up 305.7%), and the largest decrease in Vanuatu (down 70.0%).

Starchy Roots — Protein supply quantity: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Ghana 16.9 g/cap/d 2023 up 6.0% rising
2 Solomon Islands 9.82 g/cap/d 2023 down 20.3% falling
3 Nigeria 8.33 g/cap/d 2023 down 4.6% falling
4 Belarus, Republic of 7.15 g/cap/d 2023 down 7.7% falling
5 Rwanda 7.12 g/cap/d 2023 down 21.3% falling
6 Angola 6.62 g/cap/d 2023 down 3.5% falling
7 Fiji, Republic of 6.5 g/cap/d 2023 up 17.5% rising
8 Ukraine 6.29 g/cap/d 2023 up 10.0% flat
9 Guinea 6.16 g/cap/d 2023 up 62.1% rising
10 Cameroon 5.93 g/cap/d 2023 up 9.2% rising
10 Mozambique 5.93 g/cap/d 2023 up 7.4% falling
12 Namibia 5.87 g/cap/d 2023 down 15.9% falling
13 Gabon 5.86 g/cap/d 2023 down 14.1% falling
14 Papua New Guinea 5.64 g/cap/d 2023 down 13.8% falling
15 Congo, Republic of 5.4 g/cap/d 2023 down 4.9% flat
16 Peru 5.25 g/cap/d 2023 up 0.6% flat
17 Samoa 4.82 g/cap/d 2023 down 25.5% falling
18 Tonga 4.78 g/cap/d 2023 — rising
19 Nepal 4.52 g/cap/d 2023 up 23.5% rising
20 Jamaica 4.38 g/cap/d 2023 up 23.7% rising
21 Bosnia and Herzegovina 4.34 g/cap/d 2023 up 34.8% rising
22 Kyrgyz Republic 4.26 g/cap/d 2023 up 3.9% rising
23 Comoros, Union of the 4.24 g/cap/d 2023 up 19.4% rising
24 Poland 4.02 g/cap/d 2023 down 9.5% falling
25 Uzbekistan 3.98 g/cap/d 2023 up 29.2% rising
26 Belgium 3.94 g/cap/d 2023 unchanged flat
27 Malawi 3.91 g/cap/d 2023 down 35.8% falling
28 Eswatini, Kingdom of 3.8 g/cap/d 2023 up 17.6% rising
29 Paraguay 3.7 g/cap/d 2023 up 0.8% rising
30 Russian Federation 3.61 g/cap/d 2023 down 24.6% falling
31 Azerbaijan, Republic of 3.57 g/cap/d 2023 up 13.7% rising
32 Canada 3.53 g/cap/d 2023 down 12.0% falling
33 Cuba 3.51 g/cap/d 2019 down 16.4% falling
34 Ireland 3.33 g/cap/d 2023 down 15.5% falling
35 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 3.29 g/cap/d 2023 down 15.0% falling
36 Liberia 3.27 g/cap/d 2023 down 7.9% falling
37 Colombia 3.22 g/cap/d 2023 up 2.2% rising
38 Sierra Leone 3.2 g/cap/d 2023 down 8.8% falling
38 Vanuatu 3.2 g/cap/d 2023 down 70.0% falling
40 North Macedonia, Republic of 3.11 g/cap/d 2023 up 19.2% rising
41 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 2.92 g/cap/d 2023 down 1.7% flat
42 Germany 2.87 g/cap/d 2023 up 15.3% flat
43 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2.85 g/cap/d 2023 down 33.9% falling
44 Madagascar, Republic of 2.82 g/cap/d 2023 down 15.8% falling
45 Turkmenistan 2.75 g/cap/d 2023 up 96.4% rising
46 Bhutan 2.74 g/cap/d 2023 — flat
47 Armenia, Republic of 2.72 g/cap/d 2023 down 12.5% falling
48 China, mainland 2.71 g/cap/d 2023 up 3.0% flat
49 Zambia 2.69 g/cap/d 2023 up 23.4% rising
50 Portugal 2.67 g/cap/d 2023 down 10.1% falling
51 China (People’s Republic of) 2.66 g/cap/d 2023 up 3.1% flat
52 Australia 2.63 g/cap/d 2023 up 10.0% falling
52 Latvia 2.63 g/cap/d 2023 down 48.6% falling
54 Algeria 2.53 g/cap/d 2023 down 11.2% falling
54 Australia and New Zealand 2.53 g/cap/d 2023 up 7.2% falling
56 Guinea-Bissau 2.52 g/cap/d 2023 up 40.0% flat
57 Spain 2.51 g/cap/d 2023 down 0.8% falling
58 Lesotho 2.5 g/cap/d 2023 up 5.0% rising
59 Sweden 2.48 g/cap/d 2023 down 1.2% flat
60 Barbados 2.46 g/cap/d 2023 up 7.0% rising
60 Botswana 2.46 g/cap/d 2023 down 13.4% flat
60 Estonia 2.46 g/cap/d 2023 down 20.6% falling
63 Romania 2.44 g/cap/d 2023 down 46.7% falling
64 Czechia 2.41 g/cap/d 2023 down 26.3% falling
65 Serbia, Republic of 2.39 g/cap/d 2023 up 12.2% flat
66 Finland 2.37 g/cap/d 2023 down 13.2% falling
66 Guyana 2.37 g/cap/d 2023 up 53.9% rising
68 Denmark 2.32 g/cap/d 2023 up 3.1% rising
68 Uganda 2.32 g/cap/d 2023 down 39.4% falling
70 Cambodia 2.27 g/cap/d 2023 up 1.3% rising
71 Slovenia 2.24 g/cap/d 2023 down 5.1% falling
72 Bangladesh 2.23 g/cap/d 2023 up 8.8% rising
72 France 2.23 g/cap/d 2023 unchanged flat
74 Slovak Republic 2.22 g/cap/d 2023 up 18.7% rising
75 Greece 2.19 g/cap/d 2023 down 32.4% falling
76 Albania 2.18 g/cap/d 2023 up 17.2% rising
77 Georgia 2.15 g/cap/d 2023 down 20.7% falling
77 Zimbabwe 2.15 g/cap/d 2023 up 305.7% rising
79 Lebanon 2.13 g/cap/d 2023 up 10.9% rising
79 Lithuania 2.13 g/cap/d 2023 down 49.0% falling
81 Kenya 2.12 g/cap/d 2023 down 13.5% falling
82 Croatia, Republic of 2.06 g/cap/d 2023 up 13.2% flat
83 Kazakhstan, Republic of 2.05 g/cap/d 2023 down 12.4% flat
84 New Zealand 2.03 g/cap/d 2023 down 9.0% flat
85 Chile 2 g/cap/d 2023 down 25.1% falling
85 French Polynesia 2 g/cap/d 2023 down 20.3% falling
87 Trinidad and Tobago 1.96 g/cap/d 2023 up 13.3% falling
88 Mongolia 1.94 g/cap/d 2023 down 0.5% falling
89 Switzerland 1.92 g/cap/d 2023 up 9.7% rising
90 São Tomé and Príncipe, Democratic Republic of 1.91 g/cap/d 2023 down 0.5% falling
90 Uruguay 1.91 g/cap/d 2023 down 7.7% falling
92 Italy 1.86 g/cap/d 2023 up 17.0% rising
93 Indonesia 1.77 g/cap/d 2023 down 29.2% falling
94 Tajikistan, Republic of 1.76 g/cap/d 2023 up 14.3% rising
95 St. Kitts and Nevis 1.74 g/cap/d 2023 up 8.8% rising
95 Morocco 1.74 g/cap/d 2023 down 9.8% falling
97 Malta 1.67 g/cap/d 2023 down 17.7% falling
98 Argentina 1.64 g/cap/d 2023 down 14.1% falling
99 Austria 1.63 g/cap/d 2023 down 27.9% falling
100 Iceland 1.62 g/cap/d 2023 up 14.9% falling
101 Senegal 1.6 g/cap/d 2023 up 196.3% rising
102 Egypt, Arab Republic of 1.58 g/cap/d 2023 up 20.6% rising
103 St. Lucia 1.56 g/cap/d 2023 up 14.7% rising
104 Brazil 1.53 g/cap/d 2023 down 5.6% falling
104 Seychelles 1.53 g/cap/d 2023 up 39.1% flat
106 Luxembourg 1.52 g/cap/d 2023 down 33.3% falling
106 New Caledonia 1.52 g/cap/d 2023 down 3.8% falling
108 Dominican Republic 1.49 g/cap/d 2023 up 50.5% rising
109 Hungary 1.47 g/cap/d 2023 down 27.9% falling
109 Israel 1.47 g/cap/d 2023 down 15.0% falling
111 Oman 1.45 g/cap/d 2023 up 45.0% rising
112 Kuwait 1.41 g/cap/d 2023 down 37.1% falling
112 South Africa 1.41 g/cap/d 2023 up 0.7% rising
114 Qatar 1.38 g/cap/d 2023 — falling
115 Montenegro 1.34 g/cap/d 2023 up 13.6% rising
116 Bahrain, Kingdom of 1.29 g/cap/d 2023 — flat
117 Tunisia 1.28 g/cap/d 2023 down 0.8% falling
118 India 1.26 g/cap/d 2023 up 15.6% rising
119 Pakistan 1.25 g/cap/d 2023 up 78.6% rising
120 Cyprus 1.24 g/cap/d 2023 up 6.9% falling
121 Saudi Arabia 1.23 g/cap/d 2023 up 28.1% rising
122 Antigua and Barbuda 1.21 g/cap/d 2023 up 42.4% rising
122 El Salvador 1.21 g/cap/d 2023 up 5.2% rising
124 Mauritius 1.2 g/cap/d 2023 up 13.2% rising
125 Libya 1.16 g/cap/d 2023 down 0.9% falling
125 Norway 1.16 g/cap/d 2023 down 47.7% falling
127 Costa Rica 1.15 g/cap/d 2023 up 7.5% falling
128 Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of 1.14 g/cap/d 2023 up 83.9% rising
129 United Arab Emirates 1.07 g/cap/d 2023 up 87.7% rising
130 Jordan 1.06 g/cap/d 2023 up 7.1% falling
130 Tuvalu 1.06 g/cap/d 2023 — rising
132 Grenada 1.05 g/cap/d 2023 down 9.5% falling
133 Panama 1.04 g/cap/d 2023 up 10.6% flat
134 Ethiopia, The Federal Democratic Republic of 1.03 g/cap/d 2023 down 4.6% falling
135 Haiti 1.02 g/cap/d 2023 down 69.4% falling
136 Maldives 1.01 g/cap/d 2023 up 8.6% falling
137 Bulgaria 1 g/cap/d 2023 down 1.0% falling
138 Suriname 0.93 g/cap/d 2023 down 17.7% falling
139 Sri Lanka 0.92 g/cap/d 2023 up 43.8% rising
140 Ecuador 0.88 g/cap/d 2023 down 12.9% falling
140 Guatemala 0.88 g/cap/d 2023 up 120.0% volatile
142 Niger 0.83 g/cap/d 2023 up 84.4% rising
143 Malaysia 0.81 g/cap/d 2023 up 55.8% rising
144 Mexico 0.8 g/cap/d 2023 up 9.6% rising
145 Republic of Korea 0.75 g/cap/d 2023 up 10.3% rising
146 China, Macao SAR 0.69 g/cap/d 2023 unchanged rising
147 Bahamas, The 0.68 g/cap/d 2023 up 36.0% falling
148 Nicaragua 0.66 g/cap/d 2023 down 17.5% rising
149 Kiribati 0.64 g/cap/d 2023 down 5.9% flat
150 Djibouti 0.63 g/cap/d 2023 up 8.6% rising
151 China, Taiwan Province of 0.57 g/cap/d 2023 up 14.0% rising
152 Belize 0.55 g/cap/d 2023 down 11.3% falling
153 China, Hong Kong SAR 0.52 g/cap/d 2023 up 62.5% rising
154 Philippines 0.47 g/cap/d 2023 up 23.7% rising
155 Mauritania, Islamic Republic of 0.46 g/cap/d 2023 up 9.5% rising
156 Myanmar 0.42 g/cap/d 2023 down 40.0% falling
157 Honduras 0.4 g/cap/d 2023 up 42.9% rising
158 Iraq 0.35 g/cap/d 2023 down 50.7% falling
159 Thailand 0.34 g/cap/d 2023 up 6.2% rising
160 Burkina Faso 0.31 g/cap/d 2023 down 42.6% falling
161 Yemen, Republic of 0.3 g/cap/d 2023 down 33.3% falling
162 Naoero, Republic of 0.28 g/cap/d 2023 — falling
163 Marshall Islands, Republic of the 0.23 g/cap/d 2023 — rising
164 Gambia, The 0.22 g/cap/d 2023 up 15.8% flat

Regions and income groups

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

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Starchy Roots — Protein supply quantity by country. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 18 August 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/stat/starchy-roots-protein-supply-quantity-g-capita-day/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/stat/starchy-roots-protein-supply-quantity-g-capita-day/">Starchy Roots — Protein supply quantity by country</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Starchy Roots — Protein supply quantity (g/capita/day)
Unit
g/cap/d
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
213 places, 2,901 data points, 2010–2023
Last refreshed

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.