Melonseed Consumption by Country

Nigeria reported 356,682 tonnes of melonseed food supply in 2023, 70.3 percent of the listed total. The Democratic Republic of the Congo came second at 59,719 tonnes and Cameroon third at 32,103. Per person, Nigeria led at 4.29 grams. Nigeria added 40,360 tonnes in the latest year, while Egypt fell 97.8 percent. All figures count food available for human consumption, not actual intake.

Nigeria's Table

Nigeria led at 356,682 tonnes, 5.97 times the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Cameroon sat third at 32,103 tonnes, ahead of Iran at 21,217 and India at 12,585. The top three held 88.4 percent of the 507,483-tonne total, and the top five 95.0 percent. Vietnam, Jordan, Congo, Taiwan and Mauritania closed the top ten between 2,261 and 6,741 tonnes. Of 128 countries in the file, 123 carried a 2023 value.

Egypt Vanishes, Nigeria Grows

Across the 123 countries in both 2022 and 2023, supply eased 1.8 percent, from 516,763 tonnes, a loss of 9,280. Nigeria added 40,360 tonnes, up 12.8 percent, exceeding the net loss several times over. Egypt shed 26,071 tonnes, down 97.8 percent from 26,671. India shed 14,084 tonnes, down 52.8 percent, and Vietnam 4,443. Cameroon shed 2,398 tonnes. Kuwait fell 98.5 percent to 24 tonnes, and the Philippines 96.0 percent to 49. Two countries left the table.

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#	Country	2023 (tonnes)2023	2023 (grams per person per day)2023
1	Nigeria NG	356.68K	4.29
2	DR Congo CD	59.72K	1.55
3	Cameroon CM	32.1K	3.1
4	Iran IR	21.22K	0.64
5	India IN	12.59K	0.02
6	Vietnam VN	6.74K	0.18
7	Jordan JO	5.53K	1.32
8	Congo CG	3.24K	1.44
9	Taiwan TW	2.97K	0.35
10	Mauritania MR	2.26K	1.23
11	Senegal SN	1.37K	0.21
12	Germany DE	829.41	0.03
13	Egypt EG	600	0.01
14	Canada CA	403.44	0.03
15	Malaysia MY	179.2	0.01
16	Nepal NP	140	0.01
17	United Kingdom GB	112.05	0
18	France FR	82.21	0
19	Ireland IE	81.86	0.04
20	Iraq IQ	75.3	0.01
21	Denmark DK	57.07	0.03
22	Italy IT	56.14	0
23	Sweden SE	51.47	0.01
24	Philippines PH	49.19	0
25	Honduras HN	30.68	0.01
26	Portugal PT	28.98	0.01
27	Lithuania LT	27.96	0.03
28	Australia AU	24.38	0
29	Belgium BE	23.88	0.01
30	Kuwait KW	23.55	0.01
31	Kenya KE	21.4	0
32	Bangladesh BD	15.94	0
33	Lebanon LB	11.2	0.01
34	Finland FI	9.79	0
35	Mexico MX	8.35	0
36	Cambodia KH	7.85	0
37	New Zealand NZ	7.81	0
38	Luxembourg LU	7.75	0.03
39	Norway NO	7.17	0
40	Tunisia TN	7.06	0
41	Algeria DZ	6.09	0
42	Switzerland CH	5.98	0
43	Morocco MA	5.89	0
44	Liberia LR	5.75	0
45	Brazil BR	4.46	0
46	Oman OM	4.43	0
47	Libya LY	3.76	0
48	Burkina Faso BF	3.35	0
49	Ivory Coast CI	3.08	0
50	Sri Lanka LK	3.04	0
51	Guatemala GT	3.01	0
52	Poland PL	2.83	0
53	Cyprus CY	2.33	0
54	South Korea KR	2.29	0
55	Lesotho LS	1.94	0
56	Niger NE	1.93	0
57	Macau MO	1.86	0.01
58	Argentina AR	1.62	0
59	Mauritius MU	1.59	0
60	Trinidad and Tobago TT	1.46	0
61	Hungary HU	1.38	0
62	Iceland IS	1.25	0.01
63	Bolivia BO	1.23	0
64	Colombia CO	1.08	0
65	Malta MT	1.07	0.01
66	Yemen YE	1.04	0
67	Bahrain BH	1.01	0
68	Czech Republic CZ	0.81	0
69	Grenada GD	0.8	0.02
70	Kazakhstan KZ	0.78	0
71	South Africa ZA	0.71	0
72	Turkmenistan TM	0.69	0
73	Spain ES	0.66	0
74	Botswana BW	0.64	0
75	Marshall Islands MH	0.63	0.04
76	Slovakia SK	0.58	0
77	Saudi Arabia SA	0.56	0
78	Croatia HR	0.53	0
79	Venezuela VE	0.52	0
80	Cape Verde CV	0.41	0
81	Guyana GY	0.37	0
82	Serbia RS	0.28	0
83	Paraguay PY	0.23	0
84	Belarus BY	0.22	0
85	Fiji FJ	0.2	0
86	Armenia AM	0.17	0
87	Bhutan BT	0.17	0
88	Nicaragua NI	0.14	0
89	Uruguay UY	0.07	0
90	Azerbaijan AZ	0.04	0
91	Gambia GM	0.04	0
92	Barbados BB	0.03	0
93	Georgia GE	0.03	0
94	Malawi MW	0.03	0
95	Montenegro ME	0.03	0
96	North Macedonia MK	0.03	0
97	Eswatini SZ	0.02	0
98	Guinea GN	0.02	0
99	Latvia LV	0.02	0
100	Seychelles SC	0.02	0
101	Belize BZ	0.01	0
102	Austria AT	0	0
103	Bulgaria BG	0	0
104	Costa Rica CR	0	0
105	Guinea-Bissau GW	0	0
106	Indonesia ID	0	0
107	Israel IL	0	0
108	Laos LA	0	0
109	Maldives MV	0	0
110	Mongolia MN	0	0
111	Netherlands NL	0	0
112	Panama PA	0	0
113	Qatar QA	0	0
114	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	0
115	Saint Lucia LC	0	0
116	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	0	0
117	Syria SY	0	0
118	Tajikistan TJ	0	0
119	Tanzania TZ	0	0
120	Tonga TO	0	0
121	Tuvalu TV	0	0
122	Zambia ZM	0	0
123	Zimbabwe ZW	0	0

Five Years Barely Move

Among the 109 countries in both 2019 and 2023, supply grew 2.7 percent, from 493,973 tonnes, a gain of 13,459. Nigeria added 17,180 tonnes, more than the net rise. Vietnam added 6,563 tonnes from 178, one of the sharpest percentage rises in the file. India shed 5,415 tonnes, down 30.1 percent. Yemen fell to near zero from 3,810 tonnes. Iran shed 2,457 tonnes, while Jordan added 2,258, up 69.1 percent. Taiwan added 1,144 tonnes, up 62.6 percent. Fourteen countries joined over the period, adding 51 tonnes, against four departures.

Cameroon Holds Third

Cameroon sat third at 32,103 tonnes, easing 2,398 in the latest year after 34,501 in 2022. Its five-year path barely moved, from 32,695 in 2019. Per person, Cameroon sat second at 3.10 grams. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, second at 59,719 tonnes, added 74 over the latest year after 59,645. Iran, fourth at 21,217 tonnes, shed 2,457 over five years. India fell from 26,669 tonnes in 2022 to 12,585 in 2023, and from 18,000 in 2019.

Nigeria Leads Per Person Too

Nigeria's 4.29 grams a day topped the per-person table, ahead of Cameroon at 3.10 and the Democratic Republic of the Congo at 1.55. Congo followed at 1.44 grams and Jordan at 1.32. Iran, fourth by volume, sat at 0.64 grams per person. Vietnam sat at 0.18 grams despite its top-ten volume.

What Melonseed Covers

This page follows the SUA item labelled Melonseed and counts only its rows; World, regional and aggregate rows are not in the table. The annual listed supply total sums the countries with a 2023 value. Food here means supply available for people to eat in the reference year, not amounts eaten.

Melonseed Consumption by Country

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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	339.5K	4.44	327.7K	4.2	317.92K	3.99	316.32K	3.88	356.68K	4.29
2	DR Congo	59.84K	1.76	60.84K	1.74	60.35K	1.67	59.65K	1.6	59.72K	1.55
3	Cameroon	32.7K	3.51	32.05K	3.35	32.98K	3.36	34.5K	3.42	32.1K	3.1
4	Iran	23.67K	0.75	20.44K	0.64	21.59K	0.67	21.14K	0.65	21.22K	0.64
5	India	18K	0.04	20.35K	0.04	5.71K	0.01	26.67K	0.05	12.59K	0.02
6	Vietnam	178.12	0.01	51.23	0	20.88	0	11.18K	0.31	6.74K	0.18
7	Jordan	3.27K	0.84	3.14K	0.79	2.77K	0.69	5.72K	1.39	5.53K	1.32
8	Congo	3.32K	1.62	3.28K	1.56	3.25K	1.51	3.24K	1.47	3.24K	1.44
9	Taiwan	1.83K	0.21	2.83K	0.33	3.3K	0.38	2.44K	0.28	2.97K	0.35
10	Mauritania	2.35K	1.44	2.32K	1.38	2.29K	1.33	2.28K	1.28	2.26K	1.23
11	Senegal	1.42K	0.24	1.38K	0.22	1.37K	0.22	1.38K	0.21	1.37K	0.21
12	Germany	348.93	0.01	378.68	0.01	681.83	0.02	703.68	0.02	829.41	0.03
13	Egypt	96.52	0	225.15	0.01	188.27	0	26.67K	0.65	600	0.01
14	Canada	660	0.05	573.28	0.04	921.33	0.07	528.62	0.04	403.44	0.03
15	Malaysia	229.99	0.02	165.68	0.01	175.74	0.01	149.74	0.01	179.2	0.01
16	Nepal	47.74	0	28.13	0	69.3	0.01	123.68	0.01	140	0.01
17	United Kingdom	108.72	0	862.51	0.04	168.6	0.01	94.65	0	112.05	0
18	France	74.68	0	78.72	0	91.73	0	51.9	0	82.21	0
19	Ireland	45.38	0.03	52.22	0.03	79.1	0.04	116.57	0.06	81.86	0.04
20	Iraq	211.06	0.02	536.16	0.04	14.49	0	36.67	0	75.3	0.01
21	Denmark	39.81	0.02	22.5	0.01	46.31	0.02	43.24	0.02	57.07	0.03
22	Italy	54.41	0	48.3	0	17.31	0	13.43	0	56.14	0
23	Sweden	143.05	0.04	138.45	0.04	131.48	0.03	79.11	0.02	51.47	0.01
24	Philippines	1.29K	0.03	1.14K	0.03	749.41	0.02	1.24K	0.03	49.19	0
25	Honduras	-	-	1.94	0	2.1	0	0	0	30.68	0.01
26	Portugal	10.37	0	6.69	0	7.41	0	5.19	0	28.98	0.01
27	Lithuania	21.56	0.02	25.64	0.03	41.14	0.04	28.23	0.03	27.96	0.03
28	Australia	5	0	13.83	0	16.43	0	16.25	0	24.38	0
29	Belgium	19.45	0	11.67	0	5.67	0	12.48	0	23.88	0.01
30	Kuwait	25.3	0.02	53.39	0.03	59.33	0.04	1.62K	0.97	23.55	0.01
31	Kenya	28.87	0	42.37	0	54.19	0	43.97	0	21.4	0
32	Bangladesh	-	-	4.2	0	20.43	0	25.47	0	15.94	0
33	Lebanon	91.41	0.04	0	0	28.24	0.01	12.99	0.01	11.2	0.01
34	Finland	23.36	0.01	25.18	0.01	22.06	0.01	31.62	0.02	9.79	0
35	Mexico	8.26	0	8.28	0	8.3	0	8.48	0	8.35	0
36	Cambodia	0.04	0	-	-	0.08	0	0.06	0	7.85	0
37	New Zealand	2.66	0	5.46	0	6.06	0	7.91	0	7.81	0
38	Luxembourg	31.93	0.14	28.93	0.13	34.65	0.15	17.5	0.07	7.75	0.03
39	Norway	0.16	0	3.91	0	5.61	0	10.45	0.01	7.17	0
40	Tunisia	0	0	7.7	0	-	-	0	0	7.06	0
41	Algeria	2.63	0	374.37	0.02	18.67	0	18.95	0	6.09	0
42	Switzerland	2.2	0	2.28	0	6.05	0	7.08	0	5.98	0
43	Morocco	4.33	0	6.55	0	5.5	0	7.2	0	5.89	0
44	Liberia	0	0	0.02	0	0.17	0	2.31	0	5.75	0
45	Brazil	1.62	0	1.75	0	1.49	0	1.16	0	4.46	0
46	Oman	119.55	0.07	91.39	0.06	310.04	0.19	2.92	0	4.43	0
47	Libya	2.29	0	3.9	0	4.34	0	6.45	0	3.76	0
48	Burkina Faso	-	-	7.98	0	19.62	0	5.02	0	3.35	0
49	Ivory Coast	1.89	0	0.96	0	1.27	0	1.29	0	3.08	0
50	Sri Lanka	0.38	0	0.26	0	3.62	0	0.11	0	3.04	0
51	Guatemala	2.54	0	2.26	0	6.57	0	4.81	0	3.01	0
52	Poland	1.63	0	14.62	0	7.02	0	3.86	0	2.83	0
53	Cyprus	12	0.03	6.58	0.01	11.23	0.02	5.74	0.01	2.33	0
54	South Korea	2.04	0	2.96	0	1.9	0	1.9	0	2.29	0
55	Lesotho	2.35	0	45.27	0.06	116.57	0.14	141.77	0.17	1.94	0
56	Niger	0.32	0	3.06	0	3.25	0	7.82	0	1.93	0
57	Macau	10.6	0.04	0.94	0	2.55	0.01	2.26	0.01	1.86	0.01
58	Argentina	1.85	0	2.03	0	2.47	0	2.19	0	1.62	0
59	Mauritius	0.15	0	0.05	0	0.24	0	0.34	0	1.59	0
60	Trinidad and Tobago	4.13	0.01	0.74	0	0.63	0	0.92	0	1.46	0
61	Hungary	1.36	0	0.64	0	1.09	0	1.46	0	1.38	0
62	Iceland	0.02	0	0.41	0	0.15	0	1.08	0.01	1.25	0.01
63	Bolivia	5.16	0	1.16	0	0.66	0	33.51	0.01	1.23	0
64	Colombia	0.33	0	0.39	0	0.48	0	1.03	0	1.08	0
65	Malta	0.05	0	0.07	0	0.71	0	0.55	0	1.07	0.01
66	Yemen	3.81K	0.3	828.5	0.06	91.01	0.01	63.39	0	1.04	0
67	Bahrain	6.47	0.01	13.81	0.03	23.23	0.04	24.37	0.04	1.01	0
68	Czech Republic	0.53	0	0.31	0	0.12	0	0.18	0	0.81	0
69	Grenada	0	0	0.01	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.8	0.02
70	Kazakhstan	0.08	0	0.17	0	0.21	0	0.38	0	0.78	0
71	South Africa	0.79	0	0.77	0	0.17	0	0.7	0	0.71	0
72	Turkmenistan	0.7	0	0.72	0	1.02	0	0.35	0	0.69	0
73	Spain	0	0	450.24	0.03	0	0	53.61	0	0.66	0
74	Botswana	0.02	0	0.69	0	0.23	0	0.14	0	0.64	0
75	Marshall Islands	0.21	0.01	0.14	0.01	0.07	0	0.86	0.06	0.63	0.04
76	Slovakia	6.08	0	1.52	0	1.31	0	5.16	0	0.58	0
77	Saudi Arabia	0.01	0	-	-	0	0	92.58	0.01	0.56	0
78	Croatia	0.2	0	0.18	0	0.65	0	0.53	0	0.53	0
79	Venezuela	-	-	0	0	0.52	0	0.58	0	0.52	0
80	Cape Verde	0.08	0	-	-	0	0	0.03	0	0.41	0
81	Guyana	-	-	0.65	0	0.03	0	1.21	0	0.37	0
82	Serbia	0.45	0	0.03	0	0.59	0	0.4	0	0.28	0
83	Paraguay	0.36	0	0.7	0	0.75	0	0.33	0	0.23	0
84	Belarus	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.16	0	1	0	0.22	0
85	Fiji	0.22	0	0.21	0	0.43	0	0.8	0	0.2	0
86	Armenia	1.14	0	0.08	0	0.15	0	0.14	0	0.17	0
87	Bhutan	-	-	0.08	0	0.07	0	0.54	0	0.17	0
88	Nicaragua	0.41	0	0.34	0	0.11	0	0.24	0	0.14	0
89	Uruguay	0.23	0	0.3	0	0.19	0	0.13	0	0.07	0
90	Azerbaijan	0.06	0	0.27	0	0.06	0	0.2	0	0.04	0
91	Gambia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.04	0
92	Barbados	-	-	0.36	0	0	0	10.04	0.1	0.03	0
93	Georgia	0.04	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.03	0
94	Malawi	-	-	0	0	0.12	0	0.05	0	0.03	0
95	Montenegro	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.05	0	0.03	0
96	North Macedonia	0.19	0	0.26	0	0.45	0	0.33	0	0.03	0
97	Eswatini	-	-	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.02	0
98	Guinea	-	-	0	0	0	0	0.04	0	0.02	0
99	Latvia	-	-	-	-	16.35	0.02	1.38	0	0.02	0
100	Seychelles	0.14	0	0	0	0.05	0	0.07	0	0.02	0
101	Belize	0.15	0	0.09	0	0.09	0	0.05	0	0.01	0
102	Austria	10.13	0	4.33	0	6.22	0	31.7	0.01	0	0
103	Bulgaria	0	0	3.45	0	0	0	1.11	0	0	0
104	Costa Rica	0.11	0	0.02	0	0.19	0	0.11	0	0	0
105	Guinea-Bissau	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
106	Indonesia	0.66	0	2.34	0	0	0	0.07	0	0	0
107	Israel	251.84	0.08	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
108	Laos	0.17	0	0.23	0	4.84	0	0.37	0	0	0
109	Maldives	0	0	0	0	0.26	0	0	0	0	0
110	Mongolia	0.28	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	0	0
111	Netherlands	0	0	336.52	0.05	0	0	0	0	0	0
112	Panama	0.82	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
113	Qatar	9.2	0.01	4.06	0	2.48	0	0	0	0	0
114	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.01	0	0.02	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0
115	Saint Lucia	0.12	0	0.18	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0
116	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.02	0	0	0
117	Syria	0	0	843.68	0.11	905.5	0.11	0	0	0	0
118	Tajikistan	0.01	0	2.23	0	4.91	0	2.81	0	0	0
119	Tanzania	2.6	0	0	0	0.37	0	0	0	0	0
120	Tonga	0	0	0	0	-	-	0.1	0	0	0
121	Tuvalu	-	-	-	-	0.01	0	0	0	0	0
122	Zambia	-	-	0	0	0.65	0	0.71	0	0	0
123	Zimbabwe	0.43	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
124	Rwanda	0.98	0	0.34	0	0.94	0	7.74	0	-	-
125	Djibouti	0	0	0	0	0.08	0	-	-	-	-
126	Micronesia	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	-	-	-	-
127	Papua New Guinea	-	-	0.01	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
128	Sierra Leone	0.01	0	0.04	0	0.07	0	0	0	-	-

Key Findings

Nigeria was the largest reported source of melonseed food supply in 2023, with 356,682 tonnes and 4.29 grams per person per day. The Democratic Republic of the Congo ranked second at 59,719 tonnes, followed by Cameroon at 32,103 tonnes. Nigeria accounted for 70.3 percent of the listed 2023 total, while the combined total for countries reported in both 2022 and 2023 fell slightly. Egypt recorded one of the largest declines, dropping from 26,671 tonnes to 600 tonnes.

Methodology

For melonseed, tonnage follows element 5141 and daily grams follow element 665 across 2019 to 2023. A change is measured from the earlier year; none is stated from a zero base. Only countries present in both compared years enter a change. A reported zero is not a blank, and blanks never stand in for zeros. The file holds 128 countries after removing World, regional and aggregate rows; 123 carry 2023 values. The numbers describe food available for human consumption. Source: FAO FAOSTAT, compiled by StatsGeo.