Yams — Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr) 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
Yams — Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr) is currently reported for 74 countries. The highest value is 157.47 kg/cap in Ghana; the lowest is 0 kg/cap in Portugal.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.305 kg/cap, and the mean is 8.23 kg/cap.
Over the past decade 26 countries rose and 29 fell. The largest increase was in Bahamas (up 1,350.0%), and the largest decrease in Spain (down 100.0%).
Yams — Food supply quantity: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ghana | 157.47 kg/cap | 2023 | up 0.7% | rising |
| 2 | Nigeria | 92.15 kg/cap | 2023 | down 20.6% | falling |
| 3 | Gabon | 64.68 kg/cap | 2023 | down 12.3% | falling |
| 4 | Solomon Islands | 54.25 kg/cap | 2023 | down 22.6% | falling |
| 5 | Jamaica | 50.22 kg/cap | 2023 | up 22.7% | rising |
| 6 | Papua New Guinea | 34.18 kg/cap | 2023 | down 12.2% | falling |
| 7 | Comoros | 29.2 kg/cap | 2023 | up 428.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Tonga | 27.23 kg/cap | 2023 | — | rising |
| 9 | Guinea | 17.66 kg/cap | 2023 | up 118.3% | rising |
| 10 | Cameroon | 13.55 kg/cap | 2023 | down 12.6% | falling |
| 11 | Sao Tome and Principe | 7.34 kg/cap | 2023 | down 26.5% | falling |
| 12 | Colombia | 6.89 kg/cap | 2023 | up 10.6% | rising |
| 13 | Senegal | 6.26 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 14 | Fiji | 5.92 kg/cap | 2023 | up 8.8% | flat |
| 15 | New Caledonia | 4.19 kg/cap | 2023 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 16 | Rwanda | 3.67 kg/cap | 2023 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 17 | Liberia | 3.45 kg/cap | 2023 | down 20.1% | falling |
| 18 | Panama | 3.22 kg/cap | 2023 | down 5.6% | falling |
| 19 | Dominican Republic | 2.8 kg/cap | 2023 | up 15.2% | flat |
| 20 | Congo | 2.41 kg/cap | 2023 | down 15.4% | falling |
| 21 | Antigua and Barbuda | 2.32 kg/cap | 2023 | up 69.3% | rising |
| 22 | Burkina Faso | 2 kg/cap | 2023 | down 46.7% | volatile |
| 23 | Saint Lucia | 1.91 kg/cap | 2023 | down 34.1% | falling |
| 24 | Cuba | 1.71 kg/cap | 2019 | down 94.7% | volatile |
| 25 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1.54 kg/cap | 2023 | down 77.8% | falling |
| 26 | Guyana | 1.52 kg/cap | 2023 | up 176.4% | volatile |
| 27 | Barbados | 1.42 kg/cap | 2023 | down 21.1% | flat |
| 28 | Costa Rica | 1.18 kg/cap | 2023 | down 6.3% | falling |
| 29 | China, Macao SAR | 0.87 kg/cap | 2023 | up 85.1% | volatile |
| 30 | Grenada | 0.84 kg/cap | 2023 | down 83.3% | volatile |
| 30 | Haiti | 0.84 kg/cap | 2023 | down 96.8% | volatile |
| 32 | Samoa | 0.77 kg/cap | 2023 | down 96.6% | volatile |
| 33 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0.75 kg/cap | 2023 | up 7.1% | volatile |
| 34 | Brazil | 0.6 kg/cap | 2023 | up 1.7% | flat |
| 35 | Mauritania | 0.55 kg/cap | 2023 | down 24.7% | falling |
| 36 | Canada | 0.34 kg/cap | 2023 | down 19.0% | rising |
| 37 | Ethiopia | 0.32 kg/cap | 2023 | up 60.0% | volatile |
| 38 | Bahamas | 0.29 kg/cap | 2023 | up 1,350.0% | volatile |
| 39 | United Arab Emirates | 0.28 kg/cap | 2023 | down 24.3% | falling |
| 40 | Bahrain | 0.27 kg/cap | 2023 | — | falling |
| 41 | Qatar | 0.21 kg/cap | 2023 | — | falling |
| 42 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 0.2 kg/cap | 2023 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 43 | China, Taiwan Province of | 0.18 kg/cap | 2023 | up 500.0% | rising |
| 44 | Malaysia | 0.17 kg/cap | 2023 | up 240.0% | volatile |
| 44 | Niger | 0.17 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 46 | Maldives | 0.15 kg/cap | 2023 | up 150.0% | volatile |
| 47 | Oman | 0.12 kg/cap | 2023 | up 1,100.0% | volatile |
| 48 | Kenya | 0.1 kg/cap | 2023 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 48 | Nicaragua | 0.1 kg/cap | 2023 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 48 | Philippines | 0.1 kg/cap | 2023 | down 28.6% | falling |
| 51 | Belize | 0.09 kg/cap | 2023 | down 47.1% | falling |
| 51 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 0.09 kg/cap | 2023 | down 40.0% | volatile |
| 53 | France | 0.08 kg/cap | 2023 | up 14.3% | rising |
| 54 | Ireland | 0.07 kg/cap | 2023 | up 75.0% | volatile |
| 54 | Marshall Islands | 0.07 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 56 | New Zealand | 0.06 kg/cap | 2023 | up 20.0% | volatile |
| 57 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.05 kg/cap | 2023 | up 66.7% | volatile |
| 58 | Australia and New Zealand | 0.03 kg/cap | 2023 | up 50.0% | volatile |
| 59 | Australia | 0.02 kg/cap | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 59 | Belgium | 0.02 kg/cap | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 59 | Switzerland | 0.02 kg/cap | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 59 | Italy | 0.02 kg/cap | 2023 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 63 | Finland | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 63 | Iceland | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 63 | Norway | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 63 | Pakistan | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 63 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 0.01 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 68 | Botswana | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 68 | Germany | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 68 | Spain | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 68 | Lebanon | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 68 | Malta | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 68 | Namibia | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 68 | Portugal | 0 kg/cap | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Côte d'Ivoire 184.04 kg/cap
- Western Africa 78.61 kg/cap
- Africa 24.84 kg/cap
- Oceania 9.03 kg/cap
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 5.62 kg/cap
- Caribbean 5.2 kg/cap
- World 4.72 kg/cap
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 4.14 kg/cap
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 1.39 kg/cap
- South America 1.24 kg/cap
- Americas 0.79 kg/cap
- Northern Africa 0.6 kg/cap
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.