Sugar non-centrifugal — Food 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
Sugar non-centrifugal — Food is currently reported for 26 countries. The highest value is 2,881 1000 t in India; the lowest is 0 1000 t in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of).
The median across all reporting countries is 13 1000 t, and the mean is 251.23 1000 t.
Over the past decade 12 countries rose and 11 fell. The largest increase was in Laos (up 200.0%), and the largest decrease in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (down 100.0%).
Sugar non-centrifugal — Food: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 2,881 1000 t | 2023 | up 2.3% | falling |
| 2 | Colombia | 1,048 1000 t | 2023 | down 13.5% | falling |
| 3 | Myanmar | 664 1000 t | 2023 | down 14.4% | falling |
| 4 | Brazil | 570 1000 t | 2023 | up 18.3% | flat |
| 5 | Pakistan | 467 1000 t | 2023 | up 73.0% | falling |
| 6 | China | 233 1000 t | 2023 | down 26.7% | falling |
| 6 | China, mainland | 233 1000 t | 2023 | down 26.7% | falling |
| 8 | Bangladesh | 181 1000 t | 2023 | down 33.7% | falling |
| 9 | Philippines | 106 1000 t | 2023 | up 19.1% | falling |
| 10 | Mexico | 32 1000 t | 2023 | down 5.9% | flat |
| 11 | Haiti | 15 1000 t | 2023 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 11 | Caribbean | 15 1000 t | 2023 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 13 | Uganda | 14 1000 t | 2023 | up 27.3% | rising |
| 14 | Laos | 12 1000 t | 2023 | up 200.0% | rising |
| 14 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 12 1000 t | 2023 | up 200.0% | rising |
| 16 | Peru | 11 1000 t | 2023 | down 26.7% | flat |
| 17 | Nigeria | 8 1000 t | 2023 | up 14.3% | rising |
| 18 | Costa Rica | 7 1000 t | 2023 | down 36.4% | falling |
| 19 | Sri Lanka | 6 1000 t | 2023 | up 200.0% | rising |
| 20 | Nicaragua | 5 1000 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 21 | Kenya | 4 1000 t | 2023 | down 81.0% | falling |
| 22 | Nepal | 3 1000 t | 2023 | unchanged | falling |
| 22 | United Republic of Tanzania | 3 1000 t | 2023 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 24 | Honduras | 1 1000 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 24 | Panama | 1 1000 t | 2023 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 26 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 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 6,276 1000 t
- Asia 4,558 1000 t
- Southern Asia 3,537 1000 t
- Americas 1,689 1000 t
- South America 1,629 1000 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 1,378 1000 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 891 1000 t
- South-Eastern Asia 782 1000 t
- Eastern Asia 239 1000 t
- Central America 46 1000 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 43 1000 t
- Africa 29 1000 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 28 1000 t
- Eastern Africa 21 1000 t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 15 1000 t
- Western Africa 8 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.