Cassava Tapioca Consumption by Country

FAO Supply Utilization Accounts record tapioca of cassava available for human consumption, in tonnes and in grams per person per day, from 2019 through 2023. The file covers 90 reporters; 83 of them carry a 2023 value, adding to a listed total of 1,166,682 tonnes. Indonesia holds more than half the 2023 supply — after a single year that removed a fifth of the table.

Indonesia reported the largest 2023 supply at 623,342 tonnes, while Paraguay recorded the highest per-capita figure at 12.2 grams per person per day.

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#	Country	2023 (tonnes)2023	2023 (grams per person per day)2023
1	Indonesia ID	623.34K	6.07
2	Nigeria NG	284.68K	3.42
3	Madagascar MG	67.96K	5.97
4	Paraguay PY	30.47K	12.2
5	Colombia CO	22.8K	1.19
6	United States US	21.13K	0.17
7	Ghana GH	19K	1.54
8	Bangladesh BD	13.41K	0.21
9	Cameroon CM	10.41K	1
10	India IN	10.36K	0.02
11	Malaysia MY	8.95K	0.7
12	Sierra Leone SL	8.71K	2.82
13	Thailand TH	7.92K	0.3
14	China CN	6.76K	0.01
15	Ivory Coast CI	6.22K	0.55
16	Philippines PH	4.2K	0.1
17	Pakistan PK	4.07K	0.05
18	South Korea KR	4.03K	0.21
19	Vietnam VN	2.33K	0.06
20	Sri Lanka LK	1.86K	0.22
21	Congo CG	1.71K	0.76
22	Hong Kong HK	1.2K	0.44
23	Timor-Leste TL	1.18K	2.33
24	Cambodia KH	925.74	0.15
25	Senegal SN	600.21	0.09
26	Nepal NP	383.46	0.04
27	Russia RU	376.11	0.01
28	Kenya KE	267.04	0.01
29	Guinea GN	252.95	0.05
30	Mauritius MU	248.26	0.53
31	Gambia GM	181.64	0.18
32	Afghanistan AF	111.8	0.01
33	Yemen YE	108.96	0.01
34	Guyana GY	87.32	0.29
35	Guatemala GT	78.77	0.01
36	Trinidad and Tobago TT	77.55	0.14
37	Egypt EG	55.78	0
38	Papua New Guinea PG	43.51	0.01
39	Costa Rica CR	30.63	0.02
40	Barbados BB	23.46	0.23
41	Mongolia MN	21.06	0.02
42	Samoa WS	21.02	0.27
43	Lithuania LT	16.88	0.02
44	Djibouti DJ	16.2	0.04
45	Panama PA	11.25	0.01
46	Iraq IQ	8.67	0
47	Cyprus CY	6.53	0.01
48	Angola AO	6.12	0
49	French Polynesia PF	5.94	0.06
50	Niger NE	5	0
51	Belarus BY	3.31	0
52	Burkina Faso BF	3.2	0
53	Micronesia FM	2.7	0.07
54	Solomon Islands SB	2.31	0.01
55	New Caledonia NC	2.29	0.02
56	Iran IR	1.85	0
57	Montenegro ME	1.34	0.01
58	Marshall Islands MH	1.31	0.09
59	North Macedonia MK	0.93	0
60	Comoros KM	0.5	0
61	Nicaragua NI	0.45	0
62	DR Congo CD	0.43	0
63	Bhutan BT	0.39	0
64	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0.36	0.01
65	Honduras HN	0.27	0
66	Guinea-Bissau GW	0.09	0
67	Uganda UG	0.09	0
68	Sao Tome and Principe ST	0.08	0
69	Albania AL	0	0
70	Bolivia BO	0	0
71	Ethiopia ET	0	0
72	Gabon GA	0	0
73	Libya LY	0	0
74	Oman OM	0	0
75	Rwanda RW	0	0
76	Saint Lucia LC	0	0
77	Saudi Arabia SA	0	0
78	Seychelles SC	0	0
79	Syria SY	0	0
80	Tanzania TZ	0	0
81	Tonga TO	0	0
82	Vanuatu VU	0	0
83	Venezuela VE	0	0

Four Facts from the 2023 Table

• Five years added 1.4 percent; the latest year removed 21.1 percent.
• Indonesia holds 53.4 percent — after spiking to 932,512 tonnes in 2022.
• Nigeria changed by just 108 tonnes over five years, remaining almost unchanged at 284,681 tonnes in 2023.
• Paraguay is fourth by volume and first per person at 12.2 grams.

2022 to 2023: Down 21.1 Percent

The common total moved from 1,474,504 tonnes to 1,164,103, down 310,401 tonnes or 21.1 percent across 80 reporters. Indonesia fell 309,170 tonnes (down 33.2 percent) — nearly the entire net decline on its own — with China down 7,794 (down 53.6 percent), Thailand down 4,248 (down 34.9 percent) and Ivory Coast down 1,250 (down 16.7 percent). Nigeria added 3,155 tonnes (up 1.1 percent), with Malaysia adding 2,354 (up 35.7 percent), Sierra Leone 2,263 (up 35.1 percent) and Bangladesh 2,025 (up 17.8 percent). Three reporters entered with 2,579 tonnes; none left.

Five Years Added 1.4 Percent

The common total moved from 1,147,291 tonnes to 1,163,396, up 16,105 tonnes or 1.4 percent across 67 reporters. Indonesia added 29,173 tonnes (up 4.9 percent) — 181.1 percent of the net change — while Thailand fell 11,242 (down 58.7 percent), Madagascar 10,735 (down 13.6 percent) and China 8,336 (down 55.2 percent); Ghana added 6,600 (up 53.2 percent), Bangladesh 6,567 (up 95.9 percent) and the United States 4,490 (up 27.0 percent), while India fell 6,233 (down 37.6 percent). Nigeria, the second-largest reporter, moved 108 tonnes across the five years. Six reporters left with 177 tonnes between them; sixteen entered with 3,286.

Indonesia Holds 53.4 Percent; Paraguay Leads per Person

Indonesia's 623,342 tonnes top the 2023 table at 53.4 percent of the listed total, 2.19 times Nigeria's 284,681 in second. Madagascar follows at 67,960 with Paraguay at 30,468; the top three hold 83.7 percent, the top five 88.2 percent and the top ten 94.6 percent. Colombia, the United States, Ghana, Bangladesh, Cameroon and India complete the ten. Per person, Paraguay stands first at 12.2 grams — fourth by volume and first per person — with Indonesia at 6.07, Madagascar at 5.97, Nigeria at 3.42, Sierra Leone at 2.82, Timor-Leste at 2.33, Ghana at 1.54, Colombia at 1.19, Cameroon at 1.0 and Congo at 0.76 behind.

What Does Cassava Tapioca Cover?

The FAO item covers tapioca of cassava, not flour and not fresh roots, which have their own articles; the three are not added together here. Food supply quantity captures what was available for human consumption during the reference year. The gram-per-day figure spreads that availability across the population on a daily basis.

Cassava Tapioca Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

Indonesia had the largest 2023 listed supply of cassava tapioca at 623,342 tonnes, while Paraguay had the highest per-capita figure at 12.2 grams per person per day. The 2023 listed total was 1,166,682 tonnes across 83 reporters. On a common-reporter basis, the total was up 1.4 percent from 2019 to 2023. These figures record food available for human consumption, not amounts actually eaten.

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#	Country	2019 (t)	2019 (g/cap/d)	2020 (t)	2020 (g/cap/d)	2021 (t)	2021 (g/cap/d)	2022 (t)	2022 (g/cap/d)	2023 (t)	2023 (g/cap/d)
1	Indonesia	594.17K	5.97	591.07K	5.89	565.67K	5.6	932.51K	9.16	623.34K	6.07
2	Nigeria	284.79K	3.72	259.34K	3.32	271.66K	3.41	281.53K	3.46	284.68K	3.42
3	Madagascar	78.7K	7.64	70.22K	6.64	65.89K	6.08	67.74K	6.1	67.96K	5.97
4	Paraguay	31.17K	13.11	31.21K	12.95	31.46K	12.89	31.24K	12.66	30.47K	12.2
5	Colombia	22.06K	1.21	22.14K	1.2	21.15K	1.13	21.89K	1.16	22.8K	1.19
6	United States	16.64K	0.13	16.54K	0.13	20.99K	0.17	19.92K	0.16	21.13K	0.17
7	Ghana	12.4K	1.09	12.87K	1.11	18.88K	1.59	19.04K	1.57	19K	1.54
8	Bangladesh	6.85K	0.11	8.64K	0.14	8.65K	0.14	11.39K	0.18	13.41K	0.21
9	Cameroon	7.48K	0.8	9.06K	0.95	8.65K	0.88	9.89K	0.98	10.41K	1
10	India	16.59K	0.03	18.95K	0.04	14.89K	0.03	11.02K	0.02	10.36K	0.02
11	Malaysia	8.14K	0.67	7.54K	0.61	13.18K	1.05	6.6K	0.52	8.95K	0.7
12	Sierra Leone	9.07K	3.21	6.03K	2.09	13.6K	4.6	6.45K	2.13	8.71K	2.82
13	Thailand	19.16K	0.73	4.9K	0.19	20.29K	0.78	12.17K	0.46	7.92K	0.3
14	China	15.1K	0.03	17.5K	0.03	18.31K	0.04	14.55K	0.03	6.76K	0.01
15	Ivory Coast	2.77K	0.27	5.3K	0.5	3.16K	0.29	7.47K	0.67	6.22K	0.55
16	Philippines	7.44K	0.18	4.25K	0.1	6.17K	0.15	5.39K	0.13	4.2K	0.1
17	Pakistan	305.56	0	0	0	3.81K	0.04	3.62K	0.04	4.07K	0.05
18	South Korea	6.64K	0.35	4.56K	0.24	3.7K	0.2	4.31K	0.23	4.03K	0.21
19	Vietnam	-	-	-	-	0	0	-	-	2.33K	0.06
20	Sri Lanka	1.36K	0.17	1.79K	0.22	0	0	703.78	0.08	1.86K	0.22
21	Congo	1.63K	0.79	1.66K	0.79	1.68K	0.78	1.68K	0.76	1.71K	0.76
22	Hong Kong	1.21K	0.44	1.07K	0.39	1.38K	0.51	1.04K	0.38	1.2K	0.44
23	Timor-Leste	1.16K	2.45	1.12K	2.31	857.65	1.74	881.62	1.76	1.18K	2.33
24	Cambodia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	925.74	0.15
25	Senegal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	600.21	0.09
26	Nepal	227.4	0.02	541.82	0.05	358.07	0.03	418.88	0.04	383.46	0.04
27	Russia	-	-	-	-	-	-	114.27	0	376.11	0.01
28	Kenya	0.41	0	4.97	0	83.35	0	131.68	0.01	267.04	0.01
29	Guinea	255.24	0.05	167.91	0.03	179.81	0.04	149.14	0.03	252.95	0.05
30	Mauritius	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	248.26	0.53
31	Gambia	-	-	-	-	-	-	97.49	0.1	181.64	0.18
32	Afghanistan	52.1	0	592.61	0.04	230.32	0.02	77.51	0.01	111.8	0.01
33	Yemen	-	-	115.29	0.01	21.72	0	85.78	0.01	108.96	0.01
34	Guyana	57.11	0.19	81.12	0.28	67.53	0.23	87.02	0.29	87.32	0.29
35	Guatemala	95.65	0.02	170.88	0.03	63.75	0.01	44.87	0.01	78.77	0.01
36	Trinidad and Tobago	44.42	0.08	76.03	0.14	52.65	0.1	91.39	0.17	77.55	0.14
37	Egypt	0	0	32.61	0	29.47	0	15.09	0	55.78	0
38	Papua New Guinea	26.88	0.01	21.91	0.01	7.91	0	22.61	0.01	43.51	0.01
39	Costa Rica	6.47	0	4.26	0	25.97	0.01	28.81	0.02	30.63	0.02
40	Barbados	8.25	0.08	11.71	0.11	25.67	0.25	4.14	0.04	23.46	0.23
41	Mongolia	637.09	0.54	614.71	0.51	709.14	0.58	812.33	0.66	21.06	0.02
42	Samoa	-	-	29.62	0.38	0	0	14.93	0.19	21.02	0.27
43	Lithuania	15.66	0.02	9.59	0.01	20.61	0.02	15.92	0.02	16.88	0.02
44	Djibouti	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.01	0	99.3	0.24	16.2	0.04
45	Panama	-	-	1	0	11	0.01	17.69	0.01	11.25	0.01
46	Iraq	0.76	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	8.67	0
47	Cyprus	60.07	0.13	45.57	0.1	106.83	0.22	66.46	0.14	6.53	0.01
48	Angola	958.1	0.08	3.66	0	5.95K	0.47	20.87	0	6.12	0
49	French Polynesia	0.07	0	0	0	-	-	0	0	5.94	0.06
50	Niger	0.25	0	0	0	7.02	0	32.02	0	5	0
51	Belarus	0.03	0	1.29	0	5.55	0	3.24	0	3.31	0
52	Burkina Faso	5.23	0	68.68	0.01	28.25	0	10	0	3.2	0
53	Micronesia	-	-	0.42	0.01	2.27	0.06	0.88	0.02	2.7	0.07
54	Solomon Islands	-	-	0.31	0	3.04	0.01	0.52	0	2.31	0.01
55	New Caledonia	4.62	0.04	1.4	0.01	5.02	0.05	1.11	0.01	2.29	0.02
56	Iran	-	-	0	0	-	-	0.44	0	1.85	0
57	Montenegro	0.14	0	0.56	0	0.48	0	0.5	0	1.34	0.01
58	Marshall Islands	0	0	0.05	0	3.97	0.26	0.72	0.05	1.31	0.09
59	North Macedonia	-	-	-	-	0.24	0	0.37	0	0.93	0
60	Comoros	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5	0
61	Nicaragua	0.19	0	0.24	0	0.15	0	0.18	0	0.45	0
62	DR Congo	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.28	0	0.43	0
63	Bhutan	0.02	0	0.04	0	0.18	0	0.35	0	0.39	0
64	Antigua and Barbuda	0.26	0.01	0	0	0.13	0	0.17	0.01	0.36	0.01
65	Honduras	20.75	0.01	0.3	0	21.76	0.01	0.5	0	0.27	0
66	Guinea-Bissau	0.03	0	0.08	0	0.2	0	0.05	0	0.09	0
67	Uganda	-	-	-	-	0	0	0.95	0	0.09	0
68	Sao Tome and Principe	0.02	0	1.55	0.02	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.08	0
69	Albania	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.92	0	0	0
70	Bolivia	13.48	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
71	Ethiopia	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
72	Gabon	0.1	0	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
73	Libya	0	0	0	0	1	0	20	0.01	0	0
74	Oman	0	0	0	0	0	0	218.61	0.13	0	0
75	Rwanda	0.06	0	1.23	0	0	0	0.43	0	0	0
76	Saint Lucia	-	-	-	-	0	0	0.01	0	0	0
77	Saudi Arabia	-	-	-	-	-	-	754.95	0.06	0	0
78	Seychelles	0	0	10.01	0.23	3.03	0.07	0	0	0	0
79	Syria	4	0	1.6	0	8.5	0	0	0	0	0
80	Tanzania	2.27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
81	Tonga	0.07	0	-	-	2.32	0.06	0	0	0	0
82	Vanuatu	0	0	0	0	0.05	0	9.35	0.08	0	0
83	Venezuela	0.66	0	26.7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
84	Maldives	0	0	11.84	0.06	-	-	-	-	-	-
85	Ukraine	1.95	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
86	Kyrgyzstan	-	-	0	0	0.19	0	-	-	-	-
87	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.31	0.02	0.03	0	0.07	0	-	-	-	-
88	Liberia	0.25	0	0.06	0	0.03	0	-	-	-	-
89	Bahamas	0.03	0	0.16	0	0.02	0	-	-	-	-
90	Kuwait	174.76	0.11	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-

Methodology

Behind these numbers sits a 90-reporter file, each reporter holding a value in at least one year from 2019 through 2023. The tables show reporters only: World, regional and China (aggregate) rows are excluded, and China here is the China reporter. Percentages anchor to the earlier endpoint year across reporters present in both years; zero-base years produce no percentage, and small-base percentages should be read against the base.

The source in both measures is FAO Supply Utilization Accounts food supply quantity: element 5141 in tonnes for totals, element 665 in grams per capita per day, for tapioca of cassava over 2019-2023. What is counted is availability for human consumption in the reference year, not intake. Zero reports zero and blank reports nothing. The 2023 listed total of 1,166,682 tonnes sums the 83 reporters with a 2023 value, in tonnes as published. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT Supply Utilization Accounts, Tapioca of cassava, food supply quantity (tonnes; g/capita/day), 2019-2023. Compiled by StatsGeo.