Sweet potatoes — Food supply in Asia

Asia: Sweet potatoes — Food supply was 17.06 kcal/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)
17.06 kcal/cap/d
Change on year
down 3.3%
Rank
10th
of 19 groups
All-time high
23.53 kcal/cap/d
in 2010
All-time low
17.06 kcal/cap/d
in 2023
Years of data
14
2010–2023

Sweet potatoes — Food supply in Asia, 2010–2023

05101520252010201620232010: 23.5 kcal/cap/d2011: 22.7 kcal/cap/d2012: 22.4 kcal/cap/d2013: 22.2 kcal/cap/d2014: 21.9 kcal/cap/d2015: 20 kcal/cap/d2016: 19.1 kcal/cap/d2017: 18.7 kcal/cap/d2018: 19.1 kcal/cap/d2019: 18.2 kcal/cap/d2020: 17.2 kcal/cap/d2021: 17.7 kcal/cap/d2022: 17.6 kcal/cap/d2023: 17.1 kcal/cap/d

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.

Analysis

Asia recorded 17.06 kcal/cap/d for sweet potatoes — food supply in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 14 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.3% on the previous year and down 23.0% over ten years.

Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — food supply in Asia peaked at 23.53 kcal/cap/d in 2010 and was at its lowest, 17.06 kcal/cap/d, in 2023.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.

Sweet potatoes — Food supply in Asia, year by year

Annual values for Sweet potatoes — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) in Asia, 2010 to 2023.
Year kcal/cap/d Change
2010 23.53 kcal/cap/d
2011 22.66 kcal/cap/d -3.7%
2012 22.41 kcal/cap/d -1.1%
2013 22.16 kcal/cap/d -1.1%
2014 21.92 kcal/cap/d -1.1%
2015 20.02 kcal/cap/d -8.7%
2016 19.07 kcal/cap/d -4.7%
2017 18.72 kcal/cap/d -1.8%
2018 19.1 kcal/cap/d +2.0%
2019 18.19 kcal/cap/d -4.8%
2020 17.25 kcal/cap/d -5.2%
2021 17.68 kcal/cap/d +2.5%
2022 17.64 kcal/cap/d -0.2%
2023 17.06 kcal/cap/d -3.3%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2010s 20.78 kcal/cap/d 18.19 kcal/cap/d 23.53 kcal/cap/d 10
2020s 17.41 kcal/cap/d 17.06 kcal/cap/d 17.68 kcal/cap/d 4

Countries ranked near Asia

  1. 7 Cuba 96.03 kcal/cap/d compare
  2. 8 Lao People's Democratic Republic 25.69 kcal/cap/d compare
  3. 8 Madagascar 89.51 kcal/cap/d compare
  4. 9 Micronesia 24.6 kcal/cap/d compare
  5. 9 Uganda 87.51 kcal/cap/d compare
  6. 10 Tonga 73.98 kcal/cap/d compare
  7. 11 Cabo Verde 11.43 kcal/cap/d compare
  8. 11 Sierra Leone 65.15 kcal/cap/d compare
  9. 11 Democratic Republic of the Congo 14.35 kcal/cap/d compare
  10. 12 Polynesia 12.64 kcal/cap/d compare
  11. 12 Uruguay 51.54 kcal/cap/d compare
  12. 13 Guinea 49.89 kcal/cap/d compare
  13. 13 Viet Nam 9.17 kcal/cap/d compare

See the full ranking of 204 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is sweet potatoes — food supply in Asia?
Sweet potatoes — food supply in Asia was 17.06 kcal/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest sweet potatoes — food supply recorded in Asia?
The highest recorded value was 23.53 kcal/cap/d in 2010.
What is the lowest sweet potatoes — food supply recorded in Asia?
The lowest recorded value was 17.06 kcal/cap/d in 2023.
How does Asia rank for sweet potatoes — food supply?
Asia ranks 10th out of 19 groups with data for 2023.
Is sweet potatoes — food supply rising or falling in Asia?
Over the last ten years it is down 23.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Asia data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sweet potatoes — Food supply (kcal/capita/day). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Sweet potatoes — Food supply (kcal/capita/day)
Unit
kcal/cap/d
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
204 places, 2,692 data points, 2010–2023
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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.