Dry Cow Peas Consumption by Country

Nigeria's 2,684,458 tonnes top listed dry-cow-peas supply in 2023 at 47.7 percent of 5,625,457 tonnes across 107 reporters, with Niger second at 1,276,301. The latest year added 4.7 percent as Niger gained 266,751 tonnes and Nigeria 184,458 against Kenya's halving to 157,523. Five years added 19.4 percent with Nigeria behind 58.1 percent of the net gain. Niger tops per person at 133.67 grams a day.

Nigeria's 2023 dry-cow-peas total of 2,684,458 tonnes beat Niger's 1,276,301 by 2.10 times, with Burkina Faso third at 691,874. Niger's 133.67 grams a day topped the per-person list, ahead of Burkina Faso at 82.32 and Nigeria at 32.27.

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#	Country	2023 (tonnes)2023	2023 (grams per person per day)2023
1	Nigeria NG	2.68M	32.27
2	Niger NE	1.28M	133.67
3	Burkina Faso BF	691.87K	82.32
4	Kenya KE	157.52K	7.8
5	Cameroon CM	156.28K	15.09
6	Tanzania TZ	113.47K	4.67
7	DR Congo CD	71K	1.84
8	Senegal SN	65.9K	9.99
9	Yemen YE	65K	4.52
10	Mozambique MZ	63.27K	5.15
11	Myanmar MM	51.39K	2.6
12	Malawi MW	34.27K	4.45
13	Zimbabwe ZW	34K	5.7
14	China CN	26.72K	0.05
15	Haiti HT	26.59K	6.26
16	India IN	25.53K	0.05
17	Sri Lanka LK	11.33K	1.35
18	Uganda UG	9.53K	0.54
19	Madagascar MG	8.21K	0.72
20	Egypt EG	6.87K	0.16
21	Mauritania MR	6.2K	3.38
22	Zambia ZM	5.44K	0.72
23	Indonesia ID	5.25K	0.05
24	Peru PE	4.16K	0.34
25	South Africa ZA	4.11K	0.18
26	Türkiye TR	2.33K	0.07
27	Iraq IQ	2.27K	0.16
28	Gambia GM	2.12K	2.15
29	Colombia CO	1.6K	0.08
30	Vietnam VN	1.26K	0.03
31	United Arab Emirates AE	1K	0.26
32	Ghana GH	942.85	0.08
33	Iran IR	881.68	0.03
34	Italy IT	839.51	0.04
35	Trinidad and Tobago TT	801.5	1.46
36	Portugal PT	709.29	0.19
37	Guinea-Bissau GW	589.16	0.75
38	France FR	533.62	0.02
39	Eswatini SZ	513.6	1.14
40	Greece GR	433.15	0.12
41	Syria SY	363.19	0.04
42	Nepal NP	343.88	0.03
43	Algeria DZ	332.82	0.02
44	Jamaica JM	313.92	0.3
45	Qatar QA	292.59	0.27
46	Philippines PH	291.36	0.01
47	Spain ES	254.52	0.01
48	Saudi Arabia SA	240.67	0.02
49	Panama PA	191.47	0.12
50	Malaysia MY	190.57	0.01
51	Canada CA	178.01	0.01
52	Cyprus CY	161.33	0.33
53	Germany DE	119.92	0
54	Kuwait KW	98.85	0.06
55	Azerbaijan AZ	97.85	0.03
56	Netherlands NL	68.02	0.01
57	Oman OM	65.22	0.04
58	Lebanon LB	59.6	0.03
59	Botswana BW	49.54	0.05
60	Israel IL	36.12	0.01
61	Taiwan TW	35.67	0
62	Norway NO	28.6	0.01
63	Poland PL	26.24	0
64	Ireland IE	23.73	0.01
65	Bahrain BH	15.79	0.03
66	Cape Verde CV	14.3	0.07
67	New Zealand NZ	12.51	0.01
68	Cambodia KH	12.3	0
69	Libya LY	7.3	0
70	Turkmenistan TM	6.46	0
71	Liberia LR	5.57	0
72	Lesotho LS	5.16	0.01
73	Bulgaria BG	4.26	0
74	Malta MT	2.62	0.01
75	Bhutan BT	1.98	0.01
76	Finland FI	1.53	0
77	Iceland IS	1.37	0.01
78	Kyrgyzstan KG	1.34	0
79	Slovakia SK	1.3	0
80	Marshall Islands MH	1.21	0.09
81	Albania AL	1.19	0
82	Uruguay UY	1.19	0
83	Congo CG	0.97	0
84	Rwanda RW	0.67	0
85	Guatemala GT	0.41	0
86	Montenegro ME	0.34	0
87	Georgia GE	0.28	0
88	Namibia NA	0.23	0
89	Papua New Guinea PG	0.18	0
90	Bahamas BS	0.12	0
91	Seychelles SC	0.11	0
92	Guinea GN	0.1	0
93	Afghanistan AF	0.07	0
94	Czech Republic CZ	0.03	0
95	Armenia AM	0	0
96	Austria AT	0	0
97	Bangladesh BD	0	0
98	Barbados BB	0	0
99	Belgium BE	0	0
100	Chile CL	0	0
101	French Polynesia PF	0	0
102	Honduras HN	0	0
103	Latvia LV	0	0
104	Mauritius MU	0	0
105	Solomon Islands SB	0	0
106	Thailand TH	0	0
107	Timor-Leste TL	0	0

Nigeria and Niger Drive the Main Totals

• Nigeria leads Niger by 2.10 times — 2,684,458 against 1,276,301 tonnes.
• The latest year added 4.7 percent on the pair's combined 451,209 tonnes.
• Kenya halved in one year, down 157,273 tonnes to 157,523.
• Five years added 19.4 percent with Nigeria behind 58.1 percent of it.
• Niger's 133.67 grams a day lead per person by a wide margin.

Nigeria at 47.7 Percent; Niger First Per Person

Nigeria opens the 2023 table at 2,684,458 tonnes (47.7 percent of 5,625,457), Niger at 1,276,301 and Burkina Faso at 691,874. Kenya and Cameroon follow at 157,523 and 156,275 tonnes. The top three hold 82.7 percent, the top five 88.3 percent and the top ten 95.0 percent. Niger's per-person figure of 133.67 grams a day comes from second place by volume, with Burkina Faso at 82.32 and Nigeria at 32.27 behind.

Five Years Up 19.4 Percent on Nigeria and Niger

The 90 reporters present in both 2019 and 2023 moved from 4,702,637 tonnes to 5,613,372 — up 910,735 tonnes, or 19.4 percent. Two reporters with zero 2019 values left while seventeen entered with 12,085 tonnes between them, led by Zambia at 5,444 tonnes. Nigeria added 528,813 tonnes (up 24.5 percent), 58.1 percent of the net increase, with Niger adding 327,977 (up 34.6 percent); Tanzania added 43,380 (up 61.9 percent), Kenya 41,394 (up 35.6 percent) and Yemen 27,000 (up 71.1 percent), with Burkina Faso adding 20,874 (up 3.1 percent), while Myanmar fell 60,451 (down 54.1 percent) and India 44,469 (down 63.5 percent).

2023 Added 4.7 Percent as Kenya Halved

The 107 reporters present in both 2022 and 2023 moved from 5,375,375 tonnes to 5,625,457 — up 250,082 tonnes, or 4.7 percent, with none entering or leaving. Niger added 266,751 tonnes (up 26.4 percent) and Nigeria 184,458 (up 7.4 percent), while Kenya fell 157,273 (down 50.0 percent); Burkina Faso fell 28,126 (down 3.9 percent) and Myanmar 13,614 (down 20.9 percent), with China falling 8,027 (down 23.1 percent) and Cameroon 6,899 (down 4.2 percent), while Madagascar added 5,879 (up 252.0 percent).

Dry Cow Peas Beside Other Pulses

Dry cow peas form their own FAO item here — counted apart from fellow pulses, which are never folded into these figures. The numbers capture food available for human consumption in the reference year; per-day grams divide the same supply by population.

Dry Cow Peas Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

Nigeria's 2,684,458 tonnes beat Niger's 1,276,301 for the largest 2023 listed dry-cow-peas supply — 47.7 percent of 5,625,457 tonnes across 107 reporters. Burkina Faso came third at 691,874 tonnes. Niger's 133.67 grams a day topped the per-person list. What is counted is food available for human consumption, not cow peas 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	Nigeria	2.16M	28.19	2.35M	30.09	2.5M	31.34	2.5M	30.69	2.68M	32.27
2	Niger	948.32K	113.22	899.32K	103.88	1.25M	139.77	1.01M	109.27	1.28M	133.67
3	Burkina Faso	671K	87.7	610K	77.81	500K	62.28	720K	87.64	691.87K	82.32
4	Kenya	116.13K	6.21	172.9K	9.07	206.97K	10.65	314.8K	15.9	157.52K	7.8
5	Cameroon	152.28K	16.36	153.5K	16.04	156.52K	15.93	163.17K	16.18	156.28K	15.09
6	Tanzania	70.09K	3.25	75.1K	3.37	84.2K	3.67	110.46K	4.68	113.47K	4.67
7	DR Congo	72.24K	2.13	65.84K	1.88	67.52K	1.87	69.41K	1.86	71K	1.84
8	Senegal	80.28K	13.45	110.4K	18.02	110.85K	17.64	67.72K	10.51	65.9K	9.99
9	Yemen	38K	2.97	38K	2.88	54.38K	4.01	70K	5.02	65K	4.52
10	Mozambique	70.38K	6.45	63.83K	5.68	61.68K	5.33	62.9K	5.28	63.27K	5.15
11	Myanmar	111.84K	5.82	103.81K	5.36	104.39K	5.36	65K	3.31	51.39K	2.6
12	Malawi	21.93K	3.16	28.68K	4.02	26.01K	3.55	30.04K	4	34.27K	4.45
13	Zimbabwe	17.52K	3.14	18.16K	3.2	35.5K	6.16	35.2K	6	34K	5.7
14	China	9.91K	0.02	9.83K	0.02	9.66K	0.02	34.74K	0.07	26.72K	0.05
15	Haiti	27.2K	6.71	27.2K	6.63	26.72K	6.44	26.63K	6.34	26.59K	6.26
16	India	69.99K	0.14	44.04K	0.09	35.91K	0.07	21.24K	0.04	25.53K	0.05
17	Sri Lanka	9.29K	1.14	15.81K	1.92	11.36K	1.37	14.09K	1.69	11.33K	1.35
18	Uganda	10.72K	0.68	13.58K	0.84	8.57K	0.51	9.37K	0.54	9.53K	0.54
19	Madagascar	11.85K	1.15	5.6K	0.53	239.03	0.02	2.33K	0.21	8.21K	0.72
20	Egypt	6.79K	0.17	6.8K	0.17	6.85K	0.17	6.86K	0.17	6.87K	0.16
21	Mauritania	6.18K	3.79	6.17K	3.68	6.19K	3.58	6.24K	3.5	6.2K	3.38
22	Zambia	-	-	-	-	-	-	7.83K	1.07	5.44K	0.72
23	Indonesia	977.91	0.01	1.09K	0.01	1.89K	0.02	2.22K	0.02	5.25K	0.05
24	Peru	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	4.16K	0.34
25	South Africa	4.17K	0.19	6.09K	0.28	4.54K	0.2	4.22K	0.19	4.11K	0.18
26	Türkiye	2.91K	0.09	741.27	0.02	3.1K	0.1	768.32	0.02	2.33K	0.07
27	Iraq	4.45K	0.34	3.08K	0.23	3.75K	0.28	2.23K	0.16	2.27K	0.16
28	Gambia	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.13K	2.22	2.12K	2.15
29	Colombia	2.13K	0.12	1.58K	0.09	1.29K	0.07	1.38K	0.07	1.6K	0.08
30	Vietnam	249.78	0.01	215.77	0.01	114.8	0	173.73	0	1.26K	0.03
31	United Arab Emirates	900	0.26	800	0.23	596.26	0.17	737.86	0.2	1K	0.26
32	Ghana	873.28	0.08	888.98	0.08	907.23	0.08	925.03	0.08	942.85	0.08
33	Iran	1.32K	0.04	1.18K	0.04	231.72	0.01	1.37K	0.04	881.68	0.03
34	Italy	830.27	0.04	884.89	0.04	1.13K	0.05	1.15K	0.05	839.51	0.04
35	Trinidad and Tobago	505.84	0.93	513.51	0.95	500.67	0.92	509.87	0.93	801.5	1.46
36	Portugal	510.31	0.14	458.53	0.12	419.34	0.11	1.25K	0.33	709.29	0.19
37	Guinea-Bissau	571.02	0.8	826.63	1.12	808.97	1.08	643.35	0.84	589.16	0.75
38	France	185.16	0.01	198.43	0.01	384.81	0.02	425.48	0.02	533.62	0.02
39	Eswatini	526.77	1.22	524.06	1.2	564.98	1.28	526.02	1.18	513.6	1.14
40	Greece	595.51	0.15	594.49	0.15	603.83	0.16	867.35	0.23	433.15	0.12
41	Syria	31.28	0	0	0	118.02	0.01	411.77	0.05	363.19	0.04
42	Nepal	-	-	309.59	0.03	997	0.09	1.1K	0.1	343.88	0.03
43	Algeria	250.09	0.02	308.38	0.02	465.56	0.03	605.45	0.04	332.82	0.02
44	Jamaica	225	0.22	297	0.29	353	0.34	348	0.34	313.92	0.3
45	Qatar	277.65	0.27	264.1	0.26	485.21	0.47	365.42	0.35	292.59	0.27
46	Philippines	412.26	0.01	401.48	0.01	385.81	0.01	375.18	0.01	291.36	0.01
47	Spain	248.56	0.01	207.56	0.01	314.46	0.02	303.78	0.02	254.52	0.01
48	Saudi Arabia	97.43	0.01	660.97	0.06	449.84	0.04	488.85	0.04	240.67	0.02
49	Panama	168.39	0.11	233	0.15	292	0.18	211.61	0.13	191.47	0.12
50	Malaysia	385.81	0.03	212.07	0.02	1.4K	0.11	390.16	0.03	190.57	0.01
51	Canada	339.06	0.02	88.11	0.01	145.94	0.01	210.68	0.01	178.01	0.01
52	Cyprus	56.04	0.12	70.39	0.15	51.93	0.11	176.61	0.36	161.33	0.33
53	Germany	94.49	0	231.3	0.01	217.57	0.01	249.35	0.01	119.92	0
54	Kuwait	82.89	0.05	114.73	0.07	24.84	0.02	114.3	0.07	98.85	0.06
55	Azerbaijan	79	0.02	133.33	0.04	102	0.03	212.32	0.06	97.85	0.03
56	Netherlands	62.03	0.01	31.06	0	105.82	0.02	125.8	0.02	68.02	0.01
57	Oman	9.44	0.01	15.18	0.01	29.01	0.02	147.75	0.09	65.22	0.04
58	Lebanon	50.7	0.02	11.14	0.01	2.8	0	18.91	0.01	59.6	0.03
59	Botswana	0	0	113.26	0.13	42.61	0.05	8.82	0.01	49.54	0.05
60	Israel	227.62	0.07	171.94	0.05	364.85	0.11	234.87	0.07	36.12	0.01
61	Taiwan	0	0	5.56	0	-	-	0	0	35.67	0
62	Norway	21.1	0.01	23.61	0.01	27.91	0.01	27.92	0.01	28.6	0.01
63	Poland	0.01	0	1.42	0	1.19	0	0.73	0	26.24	0
64	Ireland	43.25	0.02	25.24	0.01	17.41	0.01	29.36	0.02	23.73	0.01
65	Bahrain	26.15	0.05	27.56	0.05	34.18	0.06	16.36	0.03	15.79	0.03
66	Cape Verde	36.86	0.2	-	-	18.5	0.1	19.26	0.1	14.3	0.07
67	New Zealand	22.06	0.01	19.14	0.01	14.83	0.01	1.17	0	12.51	0.01
68	Cambodia	0	0	4.15	0	1.88	0	2.19	0	12.3	0
69	Libya	-	-	0	0	22.36	0.01	0	0	7.3	0
70	Turkmenistan	1.02	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6.46	0
71	Liberia	-	-	0.75	0	0.63	0	4.39	0	5.57	0
72	Lesotho	0.02	0	0.17	0	-	-	0	0	5.16	0.01
73	Bulgaria	3.36	0	0.51	0	1.99	0	9.17	0	4.26	0
74	Malta	3.87	0.02	3.42	0.02	0.87	0	0.67	0	2.62	0.01
75	Bhutan	-	-	0.5	0	1.23	0	2.73	0.01	1.98	0.01
76	Finland	6.14	0	5.9	0	1.22	0	1.43	0	1.53	0
77	Iceland	0.03	0	0.43	0	0.2	0	0.75	0.01	1.37	0.01
78	Kyrgyzstan	2.97	0	0	0	5.56	0	14.69	0.01	1.34	0
79	Slovakia	0.89	0	1.91	0	0	0	0.01	0	1.3	0
80	Marshall Islands	0.45	0.03	0.7	0.04	1.21	0.08	0.82	0.06	1.21	0.09
81	Albania	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.54	0	1.19	0
82	Uruguay	2.27	0	1.49	0	1.46	0	1.73	0	1.19	0
83	Congo	0.02	0	0.08	0	0	0	0.99	0	0.97	0
84	Rwanda	-	-	0.07	0	0	0	0.76	0	0.67	0
85	Guatemala	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.81	0	0.41	0
86	Montenegro	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.02	0	0.34	0
87	Georgia	0.26	0	0.91	0	0.97	0	0.65	0	0.28	0
88	Namibia	2.25	0	1.73	0	3.53	0	20.19	0.02	0.23	0
89	Papua New Guinea	24	0.01	18.97	0.01	-	-	0	0	0.18	0
90	Bahamas	4.46	0.03	0.15	0	1.27	0.01	0.01	0	0.12	0
91	Seychelles	0	0	0.04	0	0.09	0	0.46	0.01	0.11	0
92	Guinea	-	-	0.09	0	0.09	0	0	0	0.1	0
93	Afghanistan	-	-	0.09	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.07	0
94	Czech Republic	0.38	0	0	0	0.13	0	0.05	0	0.03	0
95	Armenia	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3	0	0	0
96	Austria	0.12	0	0.92	0	3.78	0	0.55	0	0	0
97	Bangladesh	-	-	0.02	0	0	0	0.24	0	0	0
98	Barbados	3.6	0.04	31.65	0.31	20.56	0.2	9.14	0.09	0	0
99	Belgium	10.73	0	0	0	0	0	0.24	0	0	0
100	Chile	0.2	0	2.54	0	25.17	0	8.03	0	0	0
101	French Polynesia	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.01	0	0	0
102	Honduras	0.66	0	2.09	0	1.9	0	0	0	0	0
103	Latvia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0
104	Mauritius	0.25	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	0	0	0
105	Solomon Islands	-	-	-	-	0.04	0	0.01	0	0	0
106	Thailand	29.44	0	36.96	0	19.3	0	0	0	0	0
107	Timor-Leste	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.08	0	0	0
108	Saint Lucia	0.14	0	0	0	51.24	0.79	-	-	-	-
109	Maldives	0	0	1.63	0.01	-	-	-	-	-	-
110	Antigua and Barbuda	-	-	1.04	0.03	-	-	-	-	-	-
111	Hong Kong	-	-	0.9	0	0.8	0	-	-	-	-
112	Grenada	-	-	-	-	0.01	0	-	-	-	-

Methodology

Every percentage here divides by the earlier endpoint year, across reporters holding values in both years. FAO Supply Utilization Accounts supply the tonnes (element 5141, food supply quantity) and the daily grams per person (element 665) — for cow peas, dry, 2019 through 2023. Supply available for human consumption in the reference year is what gets counted, not intake. Zero-base years yield no percentage; a zero reports zero and a blank reports nothing.

The tables admit reporters only — 112 of them held a value in at least one year from 2019 through 2023 — with World, regional and China (aggregate) rows left out; China is the China reporter. Tonnes stand as FAO published them, unrounded, and the 2023 listed total of 5,625,457 tonnes adds the 107 reporters with a 2023 value. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT Supply Utilization Accounts, Cow peas, dry, food supply quantity (tonnes; g/capita/day), 2019-2023. Compiled by StatsGeo.