Sweets and sugars — Iron supply — Value in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Sweets and sugars — Iron supply — Value was 0.4 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
Sweets and sugars — Iron supply — Value in Sri Lanka, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in mg/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweets and sugars — iron supply — value in Sri Lanka is 0.4 mg/cap/d, measured in 2023.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 33.3% on the previous year and unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweets and sugars — iron supply — value in Sri Lanka peaked at 0.6 mg/cap/d in 2010 and was at its lowest, 0.2 mg/cap/d, in 2017.
Sri Lanka ranks 100th of 177 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.39 mg/cap/d | 0.2 mg/cap/d | 0.6 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.4 mg/cap/d | 0.3 mg/cap/d | 0.5 mg/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Sri Lanka
- 100 Argentina 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Cameroon 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 China, Taiwan Province of 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Comoros 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Djibouti 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Germany 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Italy 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Kiribati 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Paraguay 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Republic of Korea 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Trinidad and Tobago 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Türkiye 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Ukraine 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 United Arab Emirates 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
- 100 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.4 mg/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture share gdp 8.36 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.36 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
- Rural population 79.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 17.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.10 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 8,514 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweets and sugars — iron supply — value in Sri Lanka?
- Sweets and sugars — iron supply — value in Sri Lanka was 0.4 mg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweets and sugars — iron supply — value recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 0.6 mg/cap/d in 2010.
- What is the lowest sweets and sugars — iron supply — value recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.2 mg/cap/d in 2017.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for sweets and sugars — iron supply — value?
- Sri Lanka ranks 100th out of 177 countries with data for 2023.
- Is sweets and sugars — iron supply — value rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Sri Lanka data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sweets and sugars — Iron supply — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The dataset presents average daily per capita macro and micro nutrient availability by country and by FAO/WHO GIFT food groups (that are different from those used for the Food Balance Sheets), expressed in grams/milligrams/micrograms/kcal per capita per day. The population numbers used to calculate these statistics can be found in the Supply Utilization Accounts (SUA) dataset of FAOSTAT, as Total Population. Food availability quantities are derived from the SUA dataset. SUAs present a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply and utilization during a specified reference period. The SUA 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 capita 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.