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Yams — 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...

Countries reporting
78
Highest
384.15 kcal/cap/d
Ghana
Lowest
0 kcal/cap/d
Sweden
Median
0.67 kcal/cap/d
Years covered
14
2010–2023
Data points
1,720

What the numbers show

Yams — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 78 countries. The highest value is 384.15 kcal/cap/d in Ghana; the lowest is 0 kcal/cap/d in Sweden.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.67 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 19.05 kcal/cap/d.

Over the past decade 28 countries rose and 31 fell. The largest increase was in Bahamas (up 1,675.0%), and the largest decrease in Botswana (down 100.0%).

Yams — Food supply: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Ghana 384.15 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 0.7% rising
2 Nigeria 224.8 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 20.6% falling
3 Gabon 157.79 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 12.3% falling
4 Solomon Islands 132.34 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 22.6% falling
5 Jamaica 122.5 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 22.7% rising
6 Papua New Guinea 83.38 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 12.2% falling
7 Comoros 71.24 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 428.5% volatile
8 Tonga 66.43 kcal/cap/d 2023 — rising
9 Guinea 43.09 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 118.4% rising
10 Cameroon 33.04 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 12.7% falling
11 Sao Tome and Principe 17.9 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 26.6% falling
12 Colombia 16.81 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 10.5% rising
13 Senegal 15.27 kcal/cap/d 2023 — volatile
14 Fiji 14.45 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 8.9% flat
15 New Caledonia 10.22 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 0.3% flat
16 Rwanda 8.95 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 1.9% rising
17 Liberia 8.41 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 20.2% falling
18 Panama 7.87 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 5.5% falling
19 Dominican Republic 6.83 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 15.2% flat
20 Congo 5.87 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 15.5% falling
21 Antigua and Barbuda 5.65 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 68.7% rising
22 Burkina Faso 4.88 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 46.7% volatile
23 Saint Lucia 4.67 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 33.9% falling
24 Cuba 4.16 kcal/cap/d 2019 down 94.8% volatile
25 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 3.75 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 77.8% falling
26 Guyana 3.71 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 174.8% volatile
27 Barbados 3.47 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 21.0% flat
28 Costa Rica 2.89 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 6.2% falling
29 China, Macao SAR 2.12 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 86.0% volatile
30 Grenada 2.05 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 83.3% volatile
31 Haiti 2.04 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 96.8% volatile
32 Samoa 1.89 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 96.6% volatile
33 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.83 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 6.4% volatile
34 Brazil 1.46 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 1.4% flat
35 Mauritania 1.35 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 24.6% falling
36 Canada 0.83 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 20.2% rising
37 Ethiopia 0.79 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 64.6% volatile
38 Bahamas 0.71 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 1,675.0% volatile
39 United Arab Emirates 0.69 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 23.3% falling
40 Bahrain 0.65 kcal/cap/d 2023 — falling
41 Qatar 0.51 kcal/cap/d 2023 — falling
42 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.49 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 14.0% rising
43 China, Taiwan Province of 0.44 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 450.0% rising
44 Malaysia 0.41 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 215.4% volatile
44 Niger 0.41 kcal/cap/d 2023 — volatile
46 Maldives 0.37 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 164.3% volatile
47 Oman 0.3 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 1,400.0% volatile
48 Nicaragua 0.26 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 29.7% falling
49 Kenya 0.25 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 50.0% falling
49 Philippines 0.25 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 26.5% falling
51 Belize 0.23 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 45.2% falling
52 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0.21 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 44.7% volatile
53 France 0.2 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 11.1% rising
54 Ireland 0.16 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 60.0% volatile
54 Marshall Islands 0.16 kcal/cap/d 2023 — volatile
56 New Zealand 0.15 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 15.4% volatile
57 Trinidad and Tobago 0.12 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 71.4% volatile
58 Australia and New Zealand 0.06 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 20.0% volatile
59 Belgium 0.05 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 16.7% volatile
59 Switzerland 0.05 kcal/cap/d 2023 unchanged rising
61 Australia 0.04 kcal/cap/d 2023 unchanged flat
61 Italy 0.04 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 33.3% volatile
63 Pakistan 0.03 kcal/cap/d 2023 — volatile
64 Iceland 0.02 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 100.0% volatile
64 Norway 0.02 kcal/cap/d 2023 unchanged rising
64 China, Hong Kong SAR 0.02 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 100.0% volatile
67 China 0.01 kcal/cap/d 2023 — volatile
67 Finland 0.01 kcal/cap/d 2023 — volatile
67 Malta 0.01 kcal/cap/d 2023 — volatile
70 Austria 0 kcal/cap/d 2023 — volatile
70 Botswana 0 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 100.0% volatile
70 Germany 0 kcal/cap/d 2023 — volatile
70 Spain 0 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 100.0% volatile
70 Cambodia 0 kcal/cap/d 2023 — volatile
70 Lebanon 0 kcal/cap/d 2023 — volatile
70 Namibia 0 kcal/cap/d 2023 — volatile
70 Portugal 0 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 100.0% volatile
70 Sweden 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.

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Indicator
Yams — 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
136 places, 1,720 data points, 2010–2023
Last refreshed

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.