Stimulants — 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
Stimulants — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 164 countries. The highest value is 155.88 kcal/cap/d in Luxembourg; the lowest is 0.16 kcal/cap/d in Zambia.
The median across all reporting countries is 18.39 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 29.37 kcal/cap/d.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 974.
Over the past decade 105 countries rose and 52 fell. The largest increase was in Comoros (up 1,694.4%), and the largest decrease in Ghana (down 97.5%).
Stimulants — Food supply: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luxembourg | 155.88 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.5% | flat |
| 2 | Montenegro | 119.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.6% | falling |
| 3 | Iceland | 113.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 42.1% | rising |
| 4 | Malta | 103.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.8% | rising |
| 5 | Latvia | 103.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 34.3% | rising |
| 6 | Estonia | 90.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.2% | falling |
| 7 | Croatia | 90.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.6% | rising |
| 8 | Georgia | 88.73 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 38.8% | rising |
| 9 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 87.97 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 54.5% | rising |
| 10 | Slovenia | 86.54 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.0% | falling |
| 11 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 82.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 45.2% | rising |
| 12 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 81.68 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 81.6% | rising |
| 13 | Norway | 79.49 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.4% | flat |
| 14 | Denmark | 77.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 15 | Ireland | 76.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 105.5% | rising |
| 16 | French Polynesia | 73.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 39.3% | rising |
| 17 | Israel | 70.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 58.5% | rising |
| 18 | Serbia | 69.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.0% | rising |
| 19 | Portugal | 69.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 20.1% | rising |
| 20 | Libya | 67.81 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.2% | rising |
| 21 | Cyprus | 66.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.1% | falling |
| 22 | Mongolia | 66.45 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 15.4% | rising |
| 23 | Czechia | 66.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 39.1% | rising |
| 24 | New Caledonia | 66.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 24.2% | rising |
| 25 | Armenia | 64.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 3.6% | rising |
| 26 | China, Macao SAR | 63.28 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 27 | New Zealand | 62.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 60.2% | rising |
| 28 | North Macedonia | 62.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 13.8% | rising |
| 29 | Maldives | 61.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 27.6% | falling |
| 30 | Belgium | 60.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 239.3% | volatile |
| 31 | Seychelles | 58.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 571.9% | volatile |
| 32 | Oman | 56.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 53.8% | rising |
| 33 | Romania | 56.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 100.2% | rising |
| 34 | Qatar | 56.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 35 | Bahrain | 55.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 36 | Kuwait | 54.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.2% | falling |
| 37 | France | 53.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 35.5% | rising |
| 38 | Antigua and Barbuda | 51.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 36.9% | rising |
| 39 | Kazakhstan | 49.36 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 40 | Greece | 46.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 41 | Kyrgyzstan | 43.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 2.3% | falling |
| 42 | Finland | 43.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.8% | flat |
| 43 | Marshall Islands | 41.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 44 | Bahamas | 40.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.5% | falling |
| 45 | Azerbaijan | 38.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 26.1% | rising |
| 46 | Australia and New Zealand | 37.71 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 47 | Barbados | 36.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 53.1% | rising |
| 48 | Hungary | 36.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 13.9% | flat |
| 48 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 36.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 22.0% | rising |
| 50 | Mauritius | 35.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 30.7% | rising |
| 51 | Albania | 34.54 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 115.3% | rising |
| 52 | Fiji | 34.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 189.6% | volatile |
| 53 | Bulgaria | 33.29 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 62.8% | falling |
| 54 | Australia | 32.77 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 13.3% | falling |
| 55 | Switzerland | 32.73 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.9% | rising |
| 56 | Guyana | 31.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 43.2% | rising |
| 57 | Uruguay | 31.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 20.3% | rising |
| 58 | Lebanon | 30.88 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.5% | falling |
| 59 | Nauru | 30.75 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 60 | Lithuania | 30.1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 163.6% | rising |
| 61 | Grenada | 29.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 150.3% | rising |
| 62 | Slovakia | 28.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 39.3% | rising |
| 63 | Chile | 28.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 44.1% | rising |
| 64 | Saudi Arabia | 28.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 45.1% | flat |
| 65 | Iraq | 27.83 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 26.6% | rising |
| 66 | Tunisia | 26.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 238.2% | volatile |
| 67 | Belize | 26.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.9% | rising |
| 68 | Canada | 25.96 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 69 | China, Taiwan Province of | 25.31 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 40.2% | rising |
| 70 | Paraguay | 24.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 8.5% | rising |
| 71 | Ukraine | 24.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 184.3% | rising |
| 72 | Spain | 23.31 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 25.7% | falling |
| 73 | Argentina | 23.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 92.3% | rising |
| 74 | Costa Rica | 22.49 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 56.7% | rising |
| 75 | Panama | 22.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 76 | Samoa | 21.2 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 28.1% | falling |
| 77 | Philippines | 20.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 131.1% | rising |
| 78 | Sao Tome and Principe | 19.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 793.2% | volatile |
| 79 | Vanuatu | 19.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.0% | falling |
| 80 | Suriname | 19.19 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 15.9% | falling |
| 81 | Sweden | 18.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 82 | Russian Federation | 18.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.0% | falling |
| 83 | Uzbekistan | 18.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 348.3% | volatile |
| 84 | Solomon Islands | 18.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 840.7% | volatile |
| 85 | Tajikistan | 17.08 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 36.3% | falling |
| 86 | Jordan | 16.97 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 35.6% | falling |
| 87 | El Salvador | 16.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 36.5% | rising |
| 88 | Comoros | 16.15 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,694.4% | volatile |
| 89 | Saint Lucia | 15.88 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.6% | rising |
| 90 | Germany | 15.84 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 39.0% | falling |
| 91 | Tuvalu | 15.54 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 92 | Namibia | 15.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 141.1% | rising |
| 93 | Belarus | 14.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 59.2% | flat |
| 94 | Malaysia | 14.76 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 30.2% | volatile |
| 95 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 14.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 160.2% | rising |
| 96 | Peru | 14.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 98.2% | rising |
| 97 | Republic of Korea | 13.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 52.8% | rising |
| 98 | Trinidad and Tobago | 13.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.6% | rising |
| 99 | Honduras | 13.84 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 59.1% | rising |
| 100 | Djibouti | 13.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 11.6% | volatile |
| 101 | Jamaica | 13.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 9.6% | flat |
| 102 | Guatemala | 13.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 41.2% | rising |
| 103 | Brazil | 13.1 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 0.8% | falling |
| 104 | Tonga | 13.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 105 | Eswatini | 12.18 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 407.5% | volatile |
| 106 | Botswana | 11.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 4.0% | rising |
| 107 | Morocco | 11.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 69.3% | rising |
| 108 | Dominican Republic | 10.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 19.4% | flat |
| 109 | South Africa | 9.97 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 110 | Yemen | 9.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 118.7% | rising |
| 111 | Italy | 9.44 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 3.9% | falling |
| 112 | Colombia | 9.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 5.8% | rising |
| 113 | Austria | 9.23 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 69.3% | falling |
| 114 | Indonesia | 8.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 40.2% | rising |
| 115 | Nicaragua | 8.5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.8% | rising |
| 116 | Guinea | 8.3 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 220.5% | volatile |
| 117 | Congo | 8.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 18.3% | rising |
| 118 | Turkmenistan | 7.96 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 70.6% | falling |
| 119 | Cambodia | 7.69 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 639.4% | volatile |
| 120 | Mauritania | 7.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 56.4% | rising |
| 121 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 7.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 145.4% | volatile |
| 122 | Sri Lanka | 6.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 26.8% | falling |
| 123 | Cameroon | 6.15 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 48.8% | volatile |
| 124 | Ecuador | 5.84 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 39.0% | rising |
| 125 | Papua New Guinea | 5.8 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 224.0% | rising |
| 126 | United Arab Emirates | 5.79 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 66.6% | volatile |
| 127 | Thailand | 5.51 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 46.5% | rising |
| 128 | Gabon | 5.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 53.6% | falling |
| 129 | Algeria | 5 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 65.7% | falling |
| 130 | Senegal | 4.55 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 21.3% | rising |
| 131 | Bhutan | 4.53 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 132 | Kenya | 4.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 267.0% | volatile |
| 133 | Kiribati | 3.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 253.2% | volatile |
| 134 | Mexico | 3.64 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 115.4% | volatile |
| 135 | Cuba | 3.62 kcal/cap/d | 2019 | down 44.3% | falling |
| 136 | Lesotho | 3.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 68.7% | volatile |
| 137 | China | 3.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 118.4% | rising |
| 138 | Egypt | 2.95 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 28.8% | rising |
| 139 | Malawi | 2.72 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 288.6% | volatile |
| 140 | China, mainland | 2.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 157.1% | rising |
| 141 | Sierra Leone | 2.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.6% | rising |
| 142 | Haiti | 2.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 70.0% | falling |
| 143 | Liberia | 2.34 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 59.5% | volatile |
| 144 | Myanmar | 2.26 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 50.2% | falling |
| 145 | Afghanistan | 2.21 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 32.3% | falling |
| 146 | Rwanda | 2.17 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,176.5% | volatile |
| 147 | Madagascar | 2.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.8% | falling |
| 147 | Zimbabwe | 2.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 25.2% | rising |
| 149 | Poland | 1.92 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 39.6% | volatile |
| 150 | Nepal | 1.91 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 27.3% | rising |
| 151 | Ethiopia | 1.9 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 29.3% | rising |
| 152 | Burkina Faso | 1.78 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 44.7% | rising |
| 153 | Nigeria | 1.77 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 164.2% | flat |
| 154 | Angola | 1.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 61.4% | falling |
| 155 | Mozambique | 1.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.4% | falling |
| 156 | Uganda | 1.2 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 192.7% | volatile |
| 157 | India | 0.77 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 37.5% | rising |
| 158 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.74 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 72.6% | falling |
| 159 | Bangladesh | 0.71 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 108.8% | rising |
| 160 | Gambia | 0.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 74.3% | rising |
| 161 | Pakistan | 0.56 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 21.7% | rising |
| 162 | Ghana | 0.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 97.5% | volatile |
| 162 | Niger | 0.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 12.5% | volatile |
| 164 | Zambia | 0.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 90.2% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Northern Europe 72.87 kcal/cap/d
- Republic of Moldova 45.3 kcal/cap/d
- Côte d'Ivoire 45.12 kcal/cap/d
- Polynesia 43.58 kcal/cap/d
- Europe 33.7 kcal/cap/d
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 22.84 kcal/cap/d
- Western Europe 31.13 kcal/cap/d
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 21.8 kcal/cap/d
- European Union (27) 30.6 kcal/cap/d
- Timor-Leste 16.75 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Europe 30.07 kcal/cap/d
- Türkiye 16.68 kcal/cap/d
- Oceania 29.93 kcal/cap/d
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 14.5 kcal/cap/d
- Central Asia 27.23 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia 12.99 kcal/cap/d
- Northern America 23.94 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia (Federated States of) 11.89 kcal/cap/d
- Western Asia 23.85 kcal/cap/d
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 10.38 kcal/cap/d
- United States of America 23.7 kcal/cap/d
- Melanesia 10.36 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Europe 22.59 kcal/cap/d
- Viet Nam 7.37 kcal/cap/d
- Americas 16.68 kcal/cap/d
- Syrian Arab Republic 7.05 kcal/cap/d
- South America 15.21 kcal/cap/d
- Asia 5.64 kcal/cap/d
- Cabo Verde 14.41 kcal/cap/d
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 5.14 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Africa 10.07 kcal/cap/d
- Middle Africa 3.33 kcal/cap/d
- South-Eastern Asia 10.01 kcal/cap/d
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 2.54 kcal/cap/d
- World 9.58 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1.45 kcal/cap/d
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 8.33 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 1.1 kcal/cap/d
- Caribbean 7.54 kcal/cap/d
- United Republic of Tanzania 0.62 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.