Cassava and Products Consumption by Country

FAO Food Balances data show that DR Congo had the largest listed food supply of cassava and products in 2023, at 41,605 thousand tonnes, followed by Nigeria at 36,283 thousand tonnes and Indonesia at 16,846 thousand tonnes. DR Congo also had the highest per-capita food supply at 393.28 kilograms per person per year. The dataset covers 117 reporters and spans 2019 through 2023, although some reporters have missing values in individual years.

The 2023 ranking shows a clear concentration at the top: DR Congo recorded 41,605 thousand tonnes, compared with 36,283 thousand tonnes for Nigeria and 16,846 thousand tonnes for Indonesia. The per-capita ranking tells a similar story at the top, with DR Congo at 393.28 kilograms per person per year and Angola at 262.87 kilograms.

Key Takeaways

In 2023, DR Congo had the largest listed supply of cassava and products at 41,605 thousand tonnes, followed by Nigeria at 36,283 thousand tonnes. Indonesia ranked third with 16,846 thousand tonnes. On a per-capita basis, DR Congo recorded the highest food supply at 393.28 kilograms per person per year, followed by Angola at 262.87 kilograms.

Across the 115 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, listed cassava and products supply increased by 3,726 thousand tonnes, or 2.1 percent. DR Congo contributed 1,233 thousand tonnes of that increase, while Cambodia recorded the largest decline at 1,794 thousand tonnes. These figures represent food available for human consumption in the FAO Food Balances and should not be interpreted as the amount of cassava actually eaten.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	DR Congo CD	41.61K	393.28
2	Nigeria NG	36.28K	159.22
3	Indonesia ID	16.85K	59.91
4	Angola AO	9.66K	262.87
5	Ghana GH	8.45K	249.99
6	Tanzania TZ	8.23K	123.55
7	Brazil BR	6.7K	31.72
8	Mozambique MZ	6.13K	182.15
9	India IN	5.55K	3.86
10	Ivory Coast CI	5.38K	172.73
11	Zambia ZM	4.23K	203.99
12	Cameroon CM	3.38K	119.11
13	China CN	3.17K	2.23
14	Madagascar MG	2.29K	73.31
15	Cambodia KH	2.27K	130.52
16	Malawi MW	2.22K	105.19
17	Guinea GN	2.05K	142.32
18	Uganda UG	1.81K	37.19
19	Congo CG	1.5K	242.41
20	Laos LA	1.35K	176.37
21	Sierra Leone SL	1.32K	155.52
22	Rwanda RW	1.29K	92.13
23	Kenya KE	1.15K	20.77
24	Philippines PH	1.13K	9.82
25	Paraguay PY	1.11K	162.62
26	Peru PE	1.04K	30.72
27	Vietnam VN	930	9.27
28	Colombia CO	881	16.85
29	Liberia LR	581	105.69
30	Senegal SN	548	30.33
31	Haiti HT	418	35.93
32	Niger NE	337	12.88
33	Sri Lanka LK	326	14.21
34	Venezuela VE	308	10.87
35	Thailand TH	235	3.28
36	Zimbabwe ZW	231	14.15
37	Bolivia BO	167	13.65
38	Gabon GA	158	63.42
39	Myanmar MM	149	2.75
40	Dominican Republic DO	148	13.06
41	Papua New Guinea PG	143	13.74
42	Ecuador EC	113	6.28
43	Argentina AR	86	1.88
44	Nicaragua NI	71	10.4
45	Fiji FJ	62	66.62
46	Malaysia MY	62	1.78
47	Comoros KM	54	62.93
48	El Salvador SV	53	8.37
49	Guinea-Bissau GW	53	24.6
50	Honduras HN	41	3.81
51	Panama PA	33	7.32
52	United States US	21	0.06
53	Mexico MX	19	0.14
54	Timor-Leste TL	18	13.3
55	Gambia GM	15	5.38
56	Guyana GY	15	18.71
57	Bangladesh BD	13	0.08
58	Burkina Faso BF	13	0.57
59	Jamaica JM	13	4.73
60	Qatar QA	11	3.64
61	Micronesia FM	8	71.7
62	Canada CA	7	0.17
63	Chile CL	6	0.3
64	Hong Kong HK	6	0.86
65	Mauritius MU	6	4.68
66	Suriname SR	5	7.93
67	Vanuatu VU	5	16.74
68	Pakistan PK	4	0.02
69	South Korea KR	4	0.08
70	Australia AU	3	0.1
71	French Polynesia PF	3	10.38
72	Solomon Islands SB	3	3.91
73	Trinidad and Tobago TT	3	1.82
74	Bahamas BS	2	4.42
75	Cape Verde CV	2	4.37
76	Costa Rica CR	2	0.43
77	Guatemala GT	2	0.11
78	Kuwait KW	2	0.38
79	Maldives MV	2	3.65
80	New Zealand NZ	2	0.46
81	United Arab Emirates AE	2	0.18
82	Barbados BB	1	3.09
83	Belize BZ	1	1.76
84	Nepal NP	1	0.04
85	Oman OM	1	0.16
86	Saint Lucia LC	1	5.76
87	Samoa WS	1	3.72
88	Sao Tome and Principe ST	1	5.03
89	Afghanistan AF	0	0
90	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0	0.69
91	Bahrain BH	0	0.2
92	Bhutan BT	0	0.29
93	Cyprus CY	0	0
94	Djibouti DJ	0	0.01
95	Georgia GE	0	0
96	Grenada GD	0	0.02
97	Kiribati KI	0	0.45
98	Libya LY	0	0
99	Lithuania LT	0	0.01
100	Macau MO	0	0.47
101	Malta MT	0	0.06
102	Marshall Islands MH	0	0.12
103	Mongolia MN	0	0.01
104	Morocco MA	0	0.01
105	Namibia NA	0	0.02
106	Nauru NR	0	0.78
107	New Caledonia NC	0	1.5
108	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	0
109	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	0	0.68
110	Saudi Arabia SA	0	0
111	Seychelles SC	0	1.42
112	South Africa ZA	0	0
113	Tonga TO	0	1.33
114	Tunisia TN	0	0.01
115	Tuvalu TV	0	10.59
116	Uruguay UY	0	0.1

Cassava and Products Consumption by Country in 2023

DR Congo had the largest listed food supply of cassava and products in the 2023 data with 41,605 thousand tonnes (22.8 percent of the listed total), followed by Nigeria with 36,283 thousand tonnes (19.9 percent) and Indonesia with 16,846 thousand tonnes (9.2 percent). Angola ranked fourth with 9,660 thousand tonnes and Ghana fifth with 8,447 thousand tonnes.

The top three reporters hold 51.9 percent of the listed 2023 total, the top five 61.8 percent and the top ten 79.3 percent of the 182,538-thousand-tonne total. Seven of the ten largest reporters are in Africa.

Cambodia Falls 1,794 Thousand Tonnes as Cassava Food Supply Grows 2.1 Percent Between 2022 and 2023

Among the 115 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply increased from 178,812 thousand tonnes to 182,538 thousand tonnes, a gain of 3,726 thousand tonnes (2.1 percent). The annual listed totals across all reporters were 178,812 thousand tonnes in 2022 and 182,538 thousand tonnes in 2023; Saint Kitts and Nevis entered with a zero 2023 quantity and no reporter with a positive quantity left. DR Congo added 1,233 thousand tonnes (up 3.1 percent), accounting for 33.1 percent of the increase, followed by Tanzania with 1,092 thousand tonnes (up 15.3 percent), Mozambique with 910 thousand tonnes (up 17.4 percent), Zambia with 904 thousand tonnes (up 27.2 percent), Nigeria with 891 thousand tonnes (up 2.5 percent) and Ivory Coast with 671 thousand tonnes (up 14.2 percent), while Cambodia fell 1,794 thousand tonnes (down 44.1 percent) and Indonesia 740 thousand tonnes (down 4.2 percent).

Nigeria Adds 10,772 Thousand Tonnes as Cassava Food Supply Grows 17.6 Percent Since 2019

For the 114 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply increased from 155,238 thousand tonnes to 182,538 thousand tonnes, a gain of 27,300 thousand tonnes (17.6 percent). The 2019 total includes 115 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 116; Cuba, with 563 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value, while two reporters entered with zero 2023 quantities. Nigeria added 10,772 thousand tonnes (up 42.2 percent), accounting for 39.5 percent of the increase, followed by DR Congo with 4,827 thousand tonnes (up 13.1 percent), Tanzania with 2,937 thousand tonnes (up 55.5 percent), Angola with 2,464 thousand tonnes (up 34.2 percent), Indonesia with 1,627 thousand tonnes (up 10.7 percent), Ghana with 1,375 thousand tonnes (up 19.4 percent) and Mozambique with 1,263 thousand tonnes (up 26.0 percent), while Cambodia fell 1,959 thousand tonnes (down 46.3 percent).

The increase is concentrated in Africa: Nigeria, DR Congo, Tanzania and Angola together account for 76.9 percent of the 2019-2023 common-reporter increase. DR Congo leads both measures, first by total and first per capita at 393.28 kilograms, while Nigeria records 159.22 kilograms.

What Does Cassava and Products Consumption Measure?

For FAO Food Balances, the cassava and products figure used here is the amount recorded under the Food element. It represents food available for human consumption during the reference year, rather than a direct estimate of how much cassava people actually ate. The item covers cassava and products derived from it, including processed forms such as cassava flour, tapioca, dried cassava and cassava starch, and excludes other roots and tubers recorded under their own items.

The per-capita figure expresses the same food supply on a population basis, in kilograms per person per year. A country's total quantity and per-capita value therefore answer different questions: total quantity shows the size of the listed food supply, while the per-capita measure adjusts it for population.

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#	Country	2019 (1000 t)	2019 (kg/cap/yr)	2020 (1000 t)	2020 (kg/cap/yr)	2021 (1000 t)	2021 (kg/cap/yr)	2022 (1000 t)	2022 (kg/cap/yr)	2023 (1000 t)	2023 (kg/cap/yr)
1	DR Congo	36.78K	395.69	36.52K	380.5	39.11K	394.46	40.37K	394.27	41.61K	393.28
2	Nigeria	25.51K	121.78	33.65K	157.26	34.84K	159.42	35.39K	158.6	36.28K	159.22
3	Indonesia	15.22K	55.85	15.47K	56.29	14.98K	54.12	17.59K	63.07	16.85K	59.91
4	Angola	7.2K	222.26	7.94K	237.42	8.36K	242.05	9.27K	260.12	9.66K	262.87
5	Ghana	7.07K	226.25	7.28K	228.39	7.58K	233.01	7.88K	237.75	8.45K	249.99
6	Tanzania	5.29K	89.44	5.25K	86.02	4.81K	76.63	7.14K	110.31	8.23K	123.55
7	Brazil	6.43K	30.99	6.64K	31.82	6.6K	31.5	6.89K	32.75	6.7K	31.72
8	Mozambique	4.86K	162.77	4.82K	156.44	5.03K	158.72	5.22K	159.76	6.13K	182.15
9	India	4.75K	3.42	5.76K	4.1	6.49K	4.59	5.79K	4.06	5.55K	3.86
10	Ivory Coast	4.27K	151.43	4.88K	168.75	5.25K	177.04	4.71K	155.02	5.38K	172.73
11	Zambia	3.83K	206.95	3.71K	194.73	3.59K	183.12	3.32K	164.87	4.23K	203.99
12	Cameroon	2.49K	97.49	3.03K	115.49	3.08K	114.37	3.28K	118.74	3.38K	119.11
13	China	3.05K	2.14	3.1K	2.18	3.16K	2.21	3.23K	2.27	3.17K	2.23
14	Madagascar	2.61K	92.62	2.4K	83.03	2.21K	74.4	2.28K	74.91	2.29K	73.31
15	Cambodia	4.23K	256.81	4.28K	255.6	4.08K	240.25	4.07K	236.47	2.27K	130.52
16	Malawi	1.92K	101.1	1.99K	101.74	2.09K	104.35	2.17K	105.54	2.22K	105.19
17	Guinea	1.78K	136.55	1.93K	144.02	2K	145.93	2.06K	146.61	2.05K	142.32
18	Uganda	2.65K	61.66	2.03K	45.69	2.21K	48.22	2.3K	48.67	1.81K	37.19
19	Congo	1.44K	255.9	1.47K	255.59	1.48K	250.51	1.48K	244.68	1.5K	242.41
20	Laos	1.28K	176.3	1.37K	186.74	1.15K	153.94	1.27K	168.3	1.35K	176.37
21	Sierra Leone	1.02K	131.3	1.24K	156.96	1.38K	170.02	1.22K	147.94	1.32K	155.52
22	Rwanda	1.3K	101.53	1.41K	108.04	1.4K	104.63	1.44K	105.5	1.29K	92.13
23	Kenya	990	19.33	871	16.68	691	12.98	1.06K	19.58	1.15K	20.77
24	Philippines	1.14K	10.24	1.37K	12.21	1.14K	10.06	1.13K	9.95	1.13K	9.82
25	Paraguay	1.13K	173.55	1.13K	171.47	1.14K	170.05	1.13K	167.53	1.11K	162.62
26	Peru	869	26.79	932	28.38	926	27.94	918	27.42	1.04K	30.72
27	Vietnam	839	8.64	945	9.64	911	9.21	941	9.44	930	9.27
28	Colombia	821	16.46	858	16.94	818	15.98	848	16.39	881	16.85
29	Liberia	578	114.5	603	117.2	595	113.04	575	107.05	581	105.69
30	Senegal	500	30.6	530	31.54	526	30.53	526	29.79	548	30.33
31	Haiti	394	35.48	423	37.64	414	36.38	417	36.24	418	35.93
32	Niger	395	17.2	488	20.58	272	11.11	275	10.86	337	12.88
33	Sri Lanka	250	11.14	289	12.8	275	12.1	271	11.89	326	14.21
34	Venezuela	221	7.64	254	8.95	281	9.94	306	10.84	308	10.87
35	Thailand	257	3.59	146	2.04	217	3.02	109	1.52	235	3.28
36	Zimbabwe	234	15.32	243	15.62	245	15.5	232	14.41	231	14.15
37	Bolivia	143	12.23	141	11.9	145	12.12	145	11.98	167	13.65
38	Gabon	142	62.77	146	62.67	146	61.47	157	64.41	158	63.42
39	Myanmar	346	6.58	352	6.63	281	5.26	215	4.01	149	2.75
40	Dominican Republic	146	13.44	145	13.21	145	13.08	148	13.2	148	13.06
41	Papua New Guinea	160	16.65	140	14.23	146	14.55	153	15.03	143	13.74
42	Ecuador	63	3.63	63	3.61	88	4.99	142	7.98	113	6.28
43	Argentina	83	1.84	84	1.86	84	1.86	85	1.88	86	1.88
44	Nicaragua	62	9.63	63	9.56	58	8.76	59	8.79	71	10.4
45	Fiji	43	47.26	42	45.59	52	56.62	58	62.76	62	66.62
46	Malaysia	77	2.3	59	1.73	70	2.05	85	2.45	62	1.78
47	Comoros	61	77.27	52	64.3	53	64.29	53	63.83	54	62.93
48	El Salvador	62	9.98	37	5.92	66	10.55	62	9.9	53	8.37
49	Guinea-Bissau	42	21.17	50	24.98	46	22.2	50	23.8	53	24.6
50	Honduras	23	2.31	24	2.32	25	2.47	39	3.76	41	3.81
51	Panama	13	3	28	6.5	31	7.06	27	6.22	33	7.32
52	United States	17	0.05	17	0.05	21	0.06	20	0.06	21	0.06
53	Mexico	21	0.17	20	0.16	18	0.14	18	0.14	19	0.14
54	Timor-Leste	20	15.6	19	14.43	16	11.9	16	12.04	18	13.3
55	Gambia	11	4.55	12	4.91	11	4.31	13	4.94	15	5.38
56	Guyana	14	16.78	15	18.43	14	17.32	15	18.26	15	18.71
57	Bangladesh	7	0.04	9	0.05	9	0.05	11	0.07	13	0.08
58	Burkina Faso	13	0.62	13	0.62	13	0.6	14	0.62	13	0.57
59	Jamaica	7	2.44	22	7.9	22	7.66	18	6.49	13	4.73
60	Qatar	8	2.78	10	3.45	11	3.79	8	2.69	11	3.64
61	Micronesia	8	76.86	9	76.79	8	75.4	8	72.16	8	71.7
62	Canada	5	0.14	6	0.17	6	0.16	6	0.15	7	0.17
63	Chile	2	0.11	3	0.16	5	0.27	6	0.29	6	0.3
64	Hong Kong	6	0.82	6	0.78	6	0.8	6	0.76	6	0.86
65	Mauritius	1	0.56	1	0.48	1	0.92	1	1.02	6	4.68
66	Suriname	6	10.07	5	7.74	4	7.2	4	6.77	5	7.93
67	Vanuatu	0	0.02	0	0	0	0	7	21.61	5	16.74
68	Pakistan	0	0	0	0	4	0.02	4	0.01	4	0.02
69	South Korea	7	0.13	5	0.09	4	0.07	4	0.08	4	0.08
70	Australia	2	0.07	2	0.09	2	0.09	2	0.09	3	0.1
71	French Polynesia	3	10.32	3	9.33	3	9.33	3	9.05	3	10.38
72	Solomon Islands	3	4.1	3	4	3	4.12	3	3.93	3	3.91
73	Trinidad and Tobago	2	1.31	5	3.3	4	2.76	2	1.61	3	1.82
74	Bahamas	1	1.91	1	1.86	1	1.84	1	3.7	2	4.42
75	Cape Verde	3	6.29	2	4.52	3	5.25	3	4.94	2	4.37
76	Costa Rica	2	0.37	2	0.36	2	0.43	2	0.45	2	0.43
77	Guatemala	3	0.17	3	0.15	3	0.16	2	0.12	2	0.11
78	Kuwait	0	0.11	0	0.09	0	0.07	1	0.22	2	0.38
79	Maldives	1	2.08	1	1.17	2	3.84	2	4.07	2	3.65
80	New Zealand	3	0.67	2	0.36	2	0.31	1	0.29	2	0.46
81	United Arab Emirates	3	0.33	4	0.39	5	0.46	2	0.19	2	0.18
82	Barbados	1	2.08	1	3.71	1	3.91	1	2.29	1	3.09
83	Belize	1	1.48	1	1.7	1	1.51	1	1.94	1	1.76
84	Nepal	0	0.01	1	0.04	1	0.04	1	0.04	1	0.04
85	Oman	1	0.26	1	0.19	1	0.25	1	0.17	1	0.16
86	Saint Lucia	1	5.4	1	6.16	1	5.44	1	5.85	1	5.76
87	Samoa	1	2.61	1	4.43	1	3.43	1	3.23	1	3.72
88	Sao Tome and Principe	1	5.35	1	5.42	1	4.92	1	5.16	1	5.03
89	Afghanistan	0	0	1	0.02	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
90	Antigua and Barbuda	0	1.09	0	0.52	0	0.61	0	1.46	0	0.69
91	Bahrain	0	0.17	0	0.17	0	0.09	0	0.12	0	0.2
92	Bhutan	0	0	0	0	0	0.63	0	0.29	0	0.29
93	Cyprus	0	0.05	0	0.03	0	0.08	0	0.05	0	0
94	Djibouti	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.09	0	0.01
95	Georgia	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
96	Grenada	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.02
97	Kiribati	0	0.25	0	0.09	0	0.3	0	0.35	0	0.45
98	Libya	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
99	Lithuania	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
100	Macau	0	0.61	0	0.47	0	0.44	0	0.53	0	0.47
101	Malta	0	0.06	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.06
102	Marshall Islands	0	0.02	0	0.17	0	0.3	0	0.19	0	0.12
103	Mongolia	1	0.2	1	0.19	1	0.21	1	0.24	0	0.01
104	Morocco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
105	Namibia	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0	0	0.02
106	Nauru	-	-	0	0.45	0	0.43	0	1.44	0	0.78
107	New Caledonia	1	3.75	1	3	1	1.9	0	1.53	0	1.5
108	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0
109	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	2.95	0	2.88	0	3	0	0.73	0	0.68
110	Saudi Arabia	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	0.03	0	0
111	Seychelles	0	1.48	0	3.13	0	2.03	0	1.45	0	1.42
112	South Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.02	0	0
113	Tonga	1	5.4	0	4.05	0	3.77	0	1.58	0	1.33
114	Tunisia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
115	Tuvalu	0	7.54	0	11.67	0	7.57	0	8.56	0	10.59
116	Uruguay	0	0.1	0	0.1	0	0.11	0	0.09	0	0.1
117	Cuba	563	50.23	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Quick Answer

In 2023, DR Congo had the largest listed food supply of cassava and products at 41,605 thousand tonnes, followed by Nigeria at 36,283 thousand tonnes and Indonesia at 16,846 thousand tonnes. DR Congo also had the highest per-capita food supply at 393.28 kilograms per person per year. The dataset contains 117 reporters in the five-year series, with 116 reporting a value for 2023. The figures represent food available for human consumption in FAO Food Balances and are not a direct measure of the amount actually eaten.

Methodology

Percentage changes use the corresponding value in the earlier year as the base. Yearly totals use FAO Food Balances food quantity (Element 5142, thousand tonnes), while the per-capita figures use food supply quantity (Element 645, kg/capita/year) for Cassava and products from 2019 through 2023. The Food element represents the quantity available for human consumption during the reference period. It is not a direct measure of the quantity actually eaten, as additional losses or waste may occur after food reaches the consumer.

The reporter universe contains 117 reporters. The tables list reporters only; aggregate rows such as World, regions and China (aggregate) are excluded, while China figures refer to the China reporter. For year-to-year comparisons, only reporters with values in both endpoint years are included in the arithmetic. A zero indicates a displayed value of zero, while an empty cell indicates that no value is available for that reporter and year.

Quantities of 1,000 thousand tonnes and above are shown as whole numbers; smaller quantities retain up to two decimals. FAO Food Balances primarily use official national statistics, with some data also estimated or imputed where applicable. The FAO dataset reports the Food element in thousand tonnes and food supply quantity in kilograms per capita per year. The 2023 listed total of 182,538 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 116 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value.