Sunflower seed — 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
Sunflower seed — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 83 countries. The highest value is 23.86 kcal/cap/d in Bulgaria; the lowest is 0 kcal/cap/d in Sao Tome and Principe.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.42 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 2.17 kcal/cap/d.
Over the past decade 24 countries rose and 38 fell. The largest increase was in Yemen (up 1,400.0%), and the largest decrease in Belize (down 100.0%).
Sunflower seed — Food supply: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bulgaria | 23.86 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1.4% | flat |
| 2 | Uganda | 23.46 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 11.7% | falling |
| 3 | Slovenia | 12.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 64.7% | rising |
| 4 | Austria | 11.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.3% | rising |
| 5 | Spain | 10.62 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 34.5% | falling |
| 6 | Bahrain | 8.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 7 | Libya | 8.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 634.7% | volatile |
| 8 | Kazakhstan | 8.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 2.1% | volatile |
| 9 | Kuwait | 5.44 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 20.9% | volatile |
| 10 | Iceland | 5.38 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 40.5% | rising |
| 11 | Myanmar | 4.94 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 42.8% | falling |
| 12 | Paraguay | 4.32 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 71.5% | volatile |
| 13 | Trinidad and Tobago | 4.3 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 73.4% | rising |
| 14 | New Zealand | 3.99 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 15 | Saudi Arabia | 3.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 142.7% | volatile |
| 16 | Qatar | 3.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 17 | Oman | 2.98 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 38.4% | rising |
| 18 | Turkmenistan | 2.85 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 19 | Maldives | 2.43 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 636.4% | volatile |
| 20 | Cyprus | 2.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 17.6% | flat |
| 21 | Malta | 2.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 32.8% | falling |
| 22 | United Arab Emirates | 1.93 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 78.7% | volatile |
| 23 | China, Taiwan Province of | 1.89 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 54.9% | rising |
| 24 | Montenegro | 1.67 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 183.1% | volatile |
| 25 | Iraq | 1.52 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 71.7% | volatile |
| 26 | Ecuador | 1.36 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 47.8% | rising |
| 27 | Costa Rica | 1.25 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 27.7% | falling |
| 28 | Suriname | 1.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 59.9% | falling |
| 29 | Israel | 1.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 40.1% | falling |
| 29 | Mauritius | 1.06 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 21.8% | rising |
| 31 | El Salvador | 1.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 65.1% | rising |
| 32 | Honduras | 0.84 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 21.7% | rising |
| 33 | Republic of Korea | 0.73 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 10.6% | flat |
| 34 | Dominican Republic | 0.66 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 127.6% | rising |
| 35 | Seychelles | 0.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 35 | Australia and New Zealand | 0.65 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 37 | Zambia | 0.63 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 90.6% | volatile |
| 38 | New Caledonia | 0.59 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 31.4% | falling |
| 39 | Guatemala | 0.48 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 7.7% | rising |
| 40 | Ukraine | 0.47 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | falling |
| 41 | Barbados | 0.44 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 56.4% | falling |
| 42 | South Africa | 0.42 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | rising |
| 43 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.41 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.3% | volatile |
| 44 | Ireland | 0.4 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 65.2% | volatile |
| 45 | Jamaica | 0.39 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 160.0% | rising |
| 46 | Philippines | 0.36 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 38.5% | volatile |
| 47 | Eswatini | 0.35 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 79.3% | volatile |
| 48 | Brazil | 0.24 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 54.7% | falling |
| 49 | Mexico | 0.22 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 21.4% | volatile |
| 50 | Guyana | 0.16 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 77.8% | rising |
| 51 | Yemen | 0.15 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 1,400.0% | volatile |
| 52 | Peru | 0.14 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 17.6% | rising |
| 53 | Saint Lucia | 0.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 53 | Samoa | 0.12 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 87.6% | volatile |
| 55 | Bahamas | 0.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 8.3% | volatile |
| 55 | Grenada | 0.11 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 57 | Nicaragua | 0.09 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 28.6% | volatile |
| 58 | Zimbabwe | 0.07 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 16.7% | rising |
| 59 | Fiji | 0.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 16.7% | falling |
| 59 | Marshall Islands | 0.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 59 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 0.05 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 62 | Bhutan | 0.04 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 63 | China | 0.03 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 64 | Lesotho | 0.02 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 65 | French Polynesia | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 80.0% | volatile |
| 65 | Vanuatu | 0.01 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 67 | Burkina Faso | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 67 | Belize | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Botswana | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 67 | Cuba | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2019 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Gambia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Jordan | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Cambodia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2018 | — | volatile |
| 67 | Madagascar | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 67 | Mongolia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Nigeria | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 67 | Nepal | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Panama | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Papua New Guinea | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 67 | Senegal | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Serbia | 0 kcal/cap/d | 2023 | down 100.0% | falling |
| 67 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0 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.
- Republic of Moldova 14.79 kcal/cap/d
- United States of America 6.48 kcal/cap/d
- Syrian Arab Republic 6.83 kcal/cap/d
- Northern America 5.81 kcal/cap/d
- United Republic of Tanzania 6.82 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Africa 4.64 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Europe 3.58 kcal/cap/d
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 2.17 kcal/cap/d
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 3.54 kcal/cap/d
- Viet Nam 1.29 kcal/cap/d
- Central Asia 2.37 kcal/cap/d
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.45 kcal/cap/d
- Americas 2.34 kcal/cap/d
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 0.31 kcal/cap/d
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 2.26 kcal/cap/d
- Asia 0.25 kcal/cap/d
- European Union (27) 1.8 kcal/cap/d
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.19 kcal/cap/d
- Africa 1.58 kcal/cap/d
- Polynesia 0.05 kcal/cap/d
- Western Asia 1.53 kcal/cap/d
- Melanesia 0.02 kcal/cap/d
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 1.42 kcal/cap/d
- Micronesia 0.01 kcal/cap/d
- Europe 1.23 kcal/cap/d
- Timor-Leste 0 kcal/cap/d
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 0 kcal/cap/d
- Middle Africa 0 kcal/cap/d
- World 0.85 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Europe 0.76 kcal/cap/d
- Western Europe 0.76 kcal/cap/d
- South-Eastern Asia 0.64 kcal/cap/d
- Oceania 0.46 kcal/cap/d
- Caribbean 0.39 kcal/cap/d
- Southern Africa 0.37 kcal/cap/d
- Central America 0.33 kcal/cap/d
- South America 0.28 kcal/cap/d
- Northern Africa 0.24 kcal/cap/d
- Cabo Verde 0.12 kcal/cap/d
- Eastern Asia 0.05 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.