Sweet potatoes — Food supply in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Sweet potatoes — Food supply was 32.05 kcal/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
Sweet potatoes — Food supply in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — food supply in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) is 32.05 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 14 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.3% on the previous year and down 21.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — food supply in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 43.84 kcal/cap/d in 2014 and was at its lowest, 32.05 kcal/cap/d, in 2023.
That places Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 7th out of 30 groups with data for 2023, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Food supply in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 39.07 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 39.33 kcal/cap/d | +0.7% |
| 2012 | 39.03 kcal/cap/d | -0.8% |
| 2013 | 40.65 kcal/cap/d | +4.2% |
| 2014 | 43.84 kcal/cap/d | +7.8% |
| 2015 | 38.72 kcal/cap/d | -11.7% |
| 2016 | 37.78 kcal/cap/d | -2.4% |
| 2017 | 40.74 kcal/cap/d | +7.8% |
| 2018 | 36.61 kcal/cap/d | -10.1% |
| 2019 | 35.58 kcal/cap/d | -2.8% |
| 2020 | 35.82 kcal/cap/d | +0.7% |
| 2021 | 35.46 kcal/cap/d | -1.0% |
| 2022 | 32.14 kcal/cap/d | -9.4% |
| 2023 | 32.05 kcal/cap/d | -0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 39.14 kcal/cap/d | 35.58 kcal/cap/d | 43.84 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 33.87 kcal/cap/d | 32.05 kcal/cap/d | 35.82 kcal/cap/d | 4 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — food supply in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Sweet potatoes — food supply in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 32.05 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 Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 43.84 kcal/cap/d in 2014.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — food supply recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 32.05 kcal/cap/d in 2023.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for sweet potatoes — food supply?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 7th out of 30 groups with data for 2023.
- Is sweet potatoes — food supply rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 21.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 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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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.