Miscellaneous Foods Consumption by Country

In 2023, the United Kingdom held 831 thousand tonnes of listed miscellaneous foods supply, 13.3 percent of a 6,255-thousand-tonne total spread across 144 reporters. The five-year net change is just minus 17 thousand tonnes, because Norway's 309-thousand-tonne fall and Australia's 138-thousand-tonne fall nearly cancel gains in Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Cambodia. Grenada recorded the highest per-capita figure at 57.19 kilograms per person per year. The series spans 2019 through 2023, although some reporters have missing values for individual years.

The United Kingdom leads at 831 thousand tonnes, 2.47 times the Philippines at 336. Per capita the order belongs to small island reporters: Grenada at 57.19 kilograms from 7 thousand tonnes, then Barbados at 49.89 and Nauru at 42.70 kilograms. The United Kingdom records 12.11 kilograms per person.

Miscellaneous Foods Supply at a Glance

• The United Kingdom had the largest listed miscellaneous foods supply in 2023 at 831 thousand tonnes.
• The Philippines ranked second at 336 thousand tonnes, followed by Saudi Arabia at 306 thousand tonnes.
• Grenada had the highest per-capita food supply at 57.19 kilograms per person per year.
• The listed total was 6,255 thousand tonnes across 144 reporters with reported values.
• Among 143 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed miscellaneous foods supply decreased by 17 thousand tonnes, or 0.3 percent.
• The FAO Food element measures food available for human consumption and is not a direct measure of the amount actually eaten.

Key Takeaways

The five-year window nets to almost nothing because the largest moves point in opposite directions. Norway fell 309 thousand tonnes (down 71.4 percent) and Australia 138 thousand tonnes (down 33.8 percent), while Saudi Arabia added 137 thousand tonnes, Hong Kong and the Philippines 114 thousand tonnes each, and Cambodia 85 thousand tonnes. Cuba, with 17 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value, while the United States entered with 88 thousand tonnes.

Between 2022 and 2023, listed supply across the 144 reporters with data in both years fell by 226 thousand tonnes, or 3.5 percent. The United States, Australia, Mozambique and Israel accounted for most of the largest declines, while Cambodia, Venezuela, the Philippines and Iraq recorded notable gains. These figures represent food available for human consumption in the FAO Food Balances and should not be interpreted as the amount of miscellaneous foods actually eaten.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	United Kingdom GB	831	12.11
2	Philippines PH	336	2.92
3	Saudi Arabia SA	306	9.21
4	Australia AU	270	10.19
5	Hong Kong HK	267	35.93
6	France FR	247	3.73
7	Canada CA	234	5.95
8	Chile CL	197	10.03
9	Iraq IQ	182	4.7
10	Nigeria NG	156	0.68
11	Cambodia KH	129	7.43
12	Norway NO	124	22.43
13	Venezuela VE	101	3.57
14	Romania RO	96	5
15	United States US	88	0.26
16	Kazakhstan KZ	87	4.26
17	Sweden SE	85	8.07
18	Yemen YE	82	2.08
19	Finland FI	77	13.68
20	Honduras HN	75	7.08
21	Ireland IE	67	12.83
22	Belarus BY	66	7.2
23	Ghana GH	66	1.95
24	Laos LA	65	8.43
25	Czech Republic CZ	64	5.91
26	Kuwait KW	58	12.01
27	Afghanistan AF	52	1.26
28	Jamaica JM	50	17.78
29	Nicaragua NI	49	7.17
30	Libya LY	48	6.6
31	Algeria DZ	47	1.01
32	Panama PA	44	9.87
33	Georgia GE	43	11.17
34	Botswana BW	42	16.86
35	Switzerland CH	40	4.51
36	Guinea GN	39	2.71
37	El Salvador SV	38	6.08
38	DR Congo CD	37	0.35
39	Azerbaijan AZ	36	3.46
40	Qatar QA	36	12.06
41	Ethiopia ET	34	0.26
42	Uzbekistan UZ	34	0.94
43	Syria SY	33	1.39
44	Burkina Faso BF	31	1.35
45	Ecuador EC	31	1.74
46	Tajikistan TJ	30	2.86
47	Zimbabwe ZW	30	1.82
48	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	29	9.01
49	Colombia CO	29	0.56
50	Bangladesh BD	26	0.15
51	Cyprus CY	26	19.34
52	Niger NE	26	1
53	Moldova MD	25	9.61
54	Peru PE	25	0.73
55	Zambia ZM	24	1.18
56	Cameroon CM	23	0.82
57	Papua New Guinea PG	23	2.2
58	Uganda UG	23	0.47
59	Bolivia BO	22	1.81
60	Haiti HT	22	1.91
61	Israel IL	22	2.4
62	Kyrgyzstan KG	22	3.11
63	Macau MO	21	28.98
64	Mongolia MN	21	6.22
65	Angola AO	20	0.55
66	Paraguay PY	20	2.93
67	Sierra Leone SL	20	2.4
68	Slovenia SI	20	9.57
69	Albania AL	18	6.46
70	Armenia AM	18	6.02
71	Jordan JO	18	1.56
72	Kenya KE	18	0.33
73	Rwanda RW	18	1.27
74	Uruguay UY	18	5.32
75	Djibouti DJ	17	14.86
76	Montenegro ME	16	25.53
77	Namibia NA	16	5.34
78	Iran IR	15	0.17
79	Liberia LR	15	2.8
80	Luxembourg LU	15	23.14
81	Mauritania MR	15	2.9
82	Bahamas BS	14	34.71
83	Barbados BB	14	49.89
84	North Macedonia MK	14	7.66
85	Timor-Leste TL	14	10.18
86	Mozambique MZ	13	0.39
87	Belize BZ	12	29.66
88	Lebanon LB	12	2.08
89	Madagascar MG	12	0.38
90	Congo CG	11	1.74
91	Gabon GA	11	4.38
92	Gambia GM	11	3.94
93	Estonia EE	10	7.2
94	Eswatini SZ	10	7.77
95	Guyana GY	10	12.26
96	Mauritius MU	10	7.85
97	New Caledonia NC	10	33.96
98	Portugal PT	10	1
99	Taiwan TW	10	0.43
100	Tanzania TZ	10	0.15
101	Cape Verde CV	9	17.75
102	Oman OM	9	1.84
103	French Polynesia PF	8	27.27
104	Iceland IS	8	21.07
105	Lesotho LS	8	3.6
106	Maldives MV	8	14.34
107	Fiji FJ	7	8.1
108	Grenada GD	7	57.19
109	Latvia LV	7	3.96
110	Suriname SR	7	10.73
111	Bulgaria BG	6	0.82
112	Solomon Islands SB	6	6.88
113	Turkmenistan TM	6	0.76
114	Malawi MW	5	0.24
115	Nepal NP	5	0.18
116	New Zealand NZ	4	0.81
117	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	4	38.74
118	United Arab Emirates AE	4	0.4
119	Comoros KM	3	3.16
120	Guinea-Bissau GW	3	1.29
121	Myanmar MM	3	0.06
122	Seychelles SC	3	25.85
123	Tonga TO	3	26.18
124	Bhutan BT	2	3.01
125	Dominican Republic DO	2	0.14
126	Micronesia FM	2	13.92
127	Saint Lucia LC	2	11.56
128	Samoa WS	2	9.03
129	Vanuatu VU	2	5.32
130	Antigua and Barbuda AG	1	5.42
131	Kiribati KI	1	5.34
132	Marshall Islands MH	1	36.18
133	Nauru NR	1	42.7
134	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	1	17.73
135	Sao Tome and Principe ST	1	3.47
136	Bahrain BH	0	0
137	Ivory Coast CI	0	0
138	Mexico MX	0	0
139	Morocco MA	0	0
140	Pakistan PK	0	0
141	South Africa ZA	0	0
142	Sri Lanka LK	0	0.01
143	Trinidad and Tobago TT	0	0
144	Tuvalu TV	0	17.56

Miscellaneous Foods Consumption by Country in 2023

The 2023 table is led by the United Kingdom at 831 thousand tonnes, with the Philippines second at 336 and Saudi Arabia third at 306. Australia and Hong Kong complete the top five at 270 and 267 thousand tonnes, respectively.

The United Kingdom holds 13.3 percent of the 6,255-thousand-tonne listed total. The top three reporters accounted for 23.5 percent of the listed total, while the top five represented 32.1 percent and the top ten 48.4 percent. The top ten together hold less than half of the listed total.

United States Falls 82 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Declines 3.5 Percent Between 2022 and 2023

Among the 144 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply decreased from 6,481 thousand tonnes to 6,255 thousand tonnes, a decline of 226 thousand tonnes (3.5 percent). The 2022 and 2023 listed totals come from the same 144 reporters, with no reporter entering or leaving the comparison. The United States fell 82 thousand tonnes (down 48.2 percent), Australia fell 81 thousand tonnes (down 23.1 percent), Mozambique fell 65 thousand tonnes (down 83.3 percent) and Israel fell 53 thousand tonnes (down 70.7 percent), while Cambodia added 66 thousand tonnes (up 104.8 percent), Venezuela added 47 thousand tonnes (up 87.0 percent), the Philippines added 42 thousand tonnes (up 14.3 percent) and Iraq added 37 thousand tonnes (up 25.5 percent).

Norway Falls 309 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Edges Down 0.3 Percent Since 2019

For the 143 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply eased from 6,184 thousand tonnes to 6,167 thousand tonnes, a decline of 17 thousand tonnes (0.3 percent). The 2019 total includes 144 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 144; Cuba, with 17 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value, while the United States entered with 88 thousand tonnes. Norway fell 309 thousand tonnes (down 71.4 percent), Australia fell 138 thousand tonnes (down 33.8 percent), Myanmar fell 128 thousand tonnes (down 97.7 percent) and Israel fell 71 thousand tonnes (down 76.3 percent), while Saudi Arabia added 137 thousand tonnes (up 81.1 percent), Hong Kong added 114 thousand tonnes (up 74.5 percent), the Philippines added 114 thousand tonnes (up 51.4 percent) and Cambodia added 85 thousand tonnes (up 193.2 percent).

With the net change at minus 17 thousand tonnes, shares of the increase stop meaning much; the honest reading is offsetting moves of several hundred thousand tonnes on each side. Per capita, Grenada's 57.19 kilograms from 7 thousand tonnes lead Barbados at 49.89 kilograms, while the United Kingdom, first by total, records 12.11 kilograms.

What Does the Miscellaneous Foods Food Supply Measure?

For FAO Food Balances, the figure used here is the FAO item Miscellaneous recorded under the Food element as available for human consumption. It represents food available for human consumption during the reference year rather than a direct estimate of the amount of miscellaneous foods people actually ate. Foods recorded under their own items sit outside this residual figure.

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	United Kingdom	876	13.06	1.07K	15.88	914	13.5	854	12.53	831	12.11
2	Philippines	222	2.01	265	2.36	272	2.41	294	2.58	336	2.92
3	Saudi Arabia	169	5.55	194	6.26	208	6.65	289	8.99	306	9.21
4	Australia	408	16	414	16.08	400	15.41	351	13.41	270	10.19
5	Hong Kong	153	20.47	152	20.29	255	34.07	298	39.9	267	35.93
6	France	256	3.89	206	3.13	310	4.69	272	4.1	247	3.73
7	Canada	282	7.45	328	8.59	254	6.61	227	5.84	234	5.95
8	Chile	140	7.32	174	8.99	199	10.21	198	10.11	197	10.03
9	Iraq	183	5.17	184	5.08	138	3.74	145	3.84	182	4.7
10	Nigeria	102	0.49	130	0.61	131	0.6	124	0.55	156	0.68
11	Cambodia	44	2.66	47	2.79	51	3	63	3.67	129	7.43
12	Norway	433	81.05	333	61.83	156	28.82	129	23.62	124	22.43
13	Venezuela	70	2.43	29	1.04	28	1	54	1.91	101	3.57
14	Romania	83	4.24	75	3.87	101	5.24	102	5.32	96	5
15	United States	-	-	-	-	-	-	170	0.5	88	0.26
16	Kazakhstan	80	4.17	63	3.25	55	2.8	55	2.74	87	4.26
17	Sweden	83	8.08	83	8.04	82	7.84	85	8.07	85	8.07
18	Yemen	51	1.46	81	2.25	116	3.11	70	1.84	82	2.08
19	Finland	84	15.27	78	14.2	76	13.64	82	14.74	77	13.68
20	Honduras	65	6.53	66	6.54	73	7.08	73	6.97	75	7.08
21	Ireland	73	14.73	62	12.52	50	9.92	57	11.06	67	12.83
22	Belarus	57	6.06	77	8.29	64	6.88	79	8.57	66	7.2
23	Ghana	94	3.02	71	2.24	99	3.04	74	2.22	66	1.95
24	Laos	20	2.72	26	3.57	43	5.78	61	8.01	65	8.43
25	Czech Republic	73	6.91	44	4.15	55	5.26	53	4.95	64	5.91
26	Kuwait	39	8.86	41	9.33	45	10.36	59	12.92	58	12.01
27	Afghanistan	23	0.62	19	0.5	18	0.45	47	1.15	52	1.26
28	Jamaica	33	11.68	35	12.22	53	18.72	45	15.77	50	17.78
29	Nicaragua	36	5.59	41	6.32	44	6.58	45	6.68	49	7.17
30	Libya	28	4.09	43	6.06	35	4.92	45	6.22	48	6.6
31	Algeria	81	1.88	51	1.16	77	1.72	51	1.12	47	1.01
32	Panama	40	9.34	13	3.11	13	3.04	44	10.06	44	9.87
33	Georgia	40	10.44	41	10.73	36	9.45	44	11.49	43	11.17
34	Botswana	42	17.92	45	19.16	43	17.87	41	16.86	42	16.86
35	Switzerland	15	1.75	30	3.47	42	4.84	42	4.74	40	4.51
36	Guinea	20	1.55	33	2.44	38	2.74	47	3.31	39	2.71
37	El Salvador	40	6.48	38	6.07	40	6.35	43	6.87	38	6.08
38	DR Congo	23	0.25	25	0.26	31	0.31	38	0.37	37	0.35
39	Azerbaijan	26	2.59	30	2.93	33	3.25	32	3.14	36	3.46
40	Qatar	37	13.26	36	12.98	34	12.02	38	13.08	36	12.06
41	Ethiopia	22	0.19	24	0.2	33	0.27	28	0.22	34	0.26
42	Uzbekistan	18	0.55	28	0.83	29	0.84	29	0.83	34	0.94
43	Syria	29	1.42	25	1.2	27	1.25	27	1.22	33	1.39
44	Burkina Faso	30	1.42	18	0.86	26	1.17	32	1.44	31	1.35
45	Ecuador	24	1.4	25	1.4	28	1.6	28	1.56	31	1.74
46	Tajikistan	26	2.7	25	2.6	32	3.23	29	2.86	30	2.86
47	Zimbabwe	16	1.05	14	0.92	29	1.86	27	1.71	30	1.82
48	Bosnia and Herzegovina	29	8.58	26	7.87	28	8.75	31	9.73	29	9.01
49	Colombia	47	0.95	37	0.73	46	0.9	44	0.85	29	0.56
50	Bangladesh	27	0.16	27	0.16	27	0.16	32	0.19	26	0.15
51	Cyprus	24	18.48	20	15.46	22	16.92	25	19.15	26	19.34
52	Niger	32	1.38	50	2.09	38	1.53	42	1.65	26	1
53	Moldova	25	9.45	26	10.22	27	10.57	26	10.31	25	9.61
54	Peru	29	0.9	28	0.86	32	0.96	31	0.91	25	0.73
55	Zambia	23	1.25	22	1.14	21	1.06	55	2.73	24	1.18
56	Cameroon	16	0.63	15	0.57	23	0.86	8	0.3	23	0.82
57	Papua New Guinea	17	1.73	22	2.21	23	2.27	26	2.59	23	2.2
58	Uganda	17	0.39	23	0.52	19	0.41	20	0.42	23	0.47
59	Bolivia	17	1.44	17	1.42	22	1.83	26	2.15	22	1.81
60	Haiti	35	3.16	22	1.93	23	2.05	21	1.79	22	1.91
61	Israel	93	10.72	63	7.15	46	5.18	75	8.26	22	2.4
62	Kyrgyzstan	13	2.02	9	1.42	11	1.6	7	0.95	22	3.11
63	Macau	20	30.39	19	28.33	21	29.65	20	28.98	21	28.98
64	Mongolia	23	7.02	23	6.91	32	9.63	29	8.43	21	6.22
65	Angola	48	1.48	56	1.67	27	0.78	39	1.09	20	0.55
66	Paraguay	20	3.02	19	2.87	17	2.54	20	2.93	20	2.93
67	Sierra Leone	25	3.28	19	2.39	20	2.42	20	2.41	20	2.4
68	Slovenia	19	9.03	22	10.33	21	9.75	22	10.42	20	9.57
69	Albania	17	5.85	12	4.22	13	4.73	19	6.71	18	6.46
70	Armenia	19	6.43	20	6.76	17	5.85	19	6.68	18	6.02
71	Jordan	34	3.17	35	3.2	38	3.43	35	3.07	18	1.56
72	Kenya	10	0.2	20	0.39	13	0.25	16	0.3	18	0.33
73	Rwanda	4	0.35	11	0.82	17	1.27	26	1.88	18	1.27
74	Uruguay	18	5.31	18	5.27	18	5.44	20	5.88	18	5.32
75	Djibouti	16	14.92	13	11.95	20	17.7	15	12.93	17	14.86
76	Montenegro	11	18.37	11	18.55	12	19.18	14	23.47	16	25.53
77	Namibia	16	6.13	14	5.18	17	5.94	15	5.05	16	5.34
78	Iran	21	0.24	12	0.13	12	0.13	19	0.22	15	0.17
79	Liberia	12	2.47	18	3.42	21	3.95	14	2.67	15	2.8
80	Luxembourg	15	23.77	14	22.53	15	23.42	16	24.58	15	23.14
81	Mauritania	12	2.6	13	2.91	19	4.08	14	2.93	15	2.9
82	Bahamas	12	30.37	12	30.5	13	33.72	13	33.69	14	34.71
83	Barbados	14	48.33	9	33.65	11	39.19	14	49.48	14	49.89
84	North Macedonia	10	5.19	13	6.94	11	5.92	13	6.93	14	7.66
85	Timor-Leste	8	6.31	11	8.2	9	7.02	13	9.43	14	10.18
86	Mozambique	35	1.17	50	1.64	70	2.2	78	2.39	13	0.39
87	Belize	7	17.5	7	17.63	8	21.22	8	20.75	12	29.66
88	Lebanon	6	1.04	8	1.42	2	0.36	1	0.14	12	2.08
89	Madagascar	23	0.83	14	0.47	22	0.73	17	0.57	12	0.38
90	Congo	8	1.5	13	2.26	14	2.36	15	2.43	11	1.74
91	Gabon	11	4.77	10	4.26	9	4	12	4.88	11	4.38
92	Gambia	17	7	17	6.59	13	5.11	22	8.29	11	3.94
93	Estonia	5	3.45	6	4.2	6	4.68	7	5.06	10	7.2
94	Eswatini	6	4.92	6	4.92	15	12.85	23	18.47	10	7.77
95	Guyana	3	4.24	4	5.36	9	11.24	10	11.89	10	12.26
96	Mauritius	12	9.49	14	10.56	13	10.44	13	10.21	10	7.85
97	New Caledonia	7	23.5	6	20.06	8	28.18	10	33.67	10	33.96
98	Portugal	33	3.22	15	1.49	11	1.06	8	0.75	10	1
99	Taiwan	0	0	5	0.2	0	0	8	0.35	10	0.43
100	Tanzania	13	0.22	12	0.19	13	0.2	13	0.2	10	0.15
101	Cape Verde	8	14.71	8	15.75	9	17.54	8	15.32	9	17.75
102	Oman	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	2.29	9	1.84
103	French Polynesia	7	24.54	6	21.19	7	23.56	7	24.41	8	27.27
104	Iceland	9	25.1	8	22.94	7	19.44	8	21.93	8	21.07
105	Lesotho	7	2.98	5	2.41	8	3.51	7	3.23	8	3.6
106	Maldives	10	20.94	10	20.23	9	17.08	9	17.29	8	14.34
107	Fiji	5	5.93	5	4.95	5	5.54	8	8.47	7	8.1
108	Grenada	6	49.79	7	58.07	7	57.89	7	59.12	7	57.19
109	Latvia	13	6.65	11	5.71	11	5.77	11	5.78	7	3.96
110	Suriname	7	11.53	7	11.19	6	9.58	7	10.69	7	10.73
111	Bulgaria	19	2.76	15	2.22	15	2.21	13	1.95	6	0.82
112	Solomon Islands	4	5.43	5	6.37	4	5.69	4	5.46	6	6.88
113	Turkmenistan	12	1.74	18	2.52	17	2.41	7	0.93	6	0.76
114	Malawi	11	0.56	9	0.47	11	0.56	7	0.33	5	0.24
115	Nepal	15	0.52	14	0.48	18	0.63	17	0.58	5	0.18
116	New Zealand	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.81
117	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	5	48.55	3	30.78	5	47.36	3	33.7	4	38.74
118	United Arab Emirates	7	0.71	9	0.92	29	2.92	25	2.45	4	0.4
119	Comoros	1	1.62	1	1.69	2	1.84	4	4.23	3	3.16
120	Guinea-Bissau	8	3.93	6	3	8	3.71	7	3.25	3	1.29
121	Myanmar	131	2.48	115	2.16	7	0.13	2	0.04	3	0.06
122	Seychelles	3	23.21	3	21.98	3	22.41	3	24.71	3	25.85
123	Tonga	2	14.45	2	16.8	2	19.88	2	17.12	3	26.18
124	Bhutan	3	3.4	3	4.3	5	5.81	3	4.36	2	3.01
125	Dominican Republic	2	0.18	1	0.09	0	0	1	0.07	2	0.14
126	Micronesia	3	27.26	2	20.21	2	15.28	2	15	2	13.92
127	Saint Lucia	2	10.68	2	13.48	2	10.52	2	12.25	2	11.56
128	Samoa	2	11.11	3	14.99	1	6.33	2	9.03	2	9.03
129	Vanuatu	2	5.19	1	4.03	1	4.87	2	5.45	2	5.32
130	Antigua and Barbuda	1	7.76	1	7.62	1	7.58	1	5.42	1	5.42
131	Kiribati	1	7.68	1	11.75	1	9.23	1	11.4	1	5.34
132	Marshall Islands	2	35.12	2	43.41	2	43.11	2	39.79	1	36.18
133	Nauru	0	40.41	0	39.93	0	41.62	1	44.94	1	42.7
134	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1	29.46	1	20.16	1	26.08	1	25.2	1	17.73
135	Sao Tome and Principe	1	6.98	1	6.39	1	6.52	1	5.95	1	3.47
136	Bahrain	0	0.02	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
137	Ivory Coast	0	0	0	0	4	0.13	0	0	0	0
138	Mexico	41	0.33	33	0.26	0	0	0	0	0	0
139	Morocco	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0.16	0	0
140	Pakistan	10	0.04	3	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
141	South Africa	0	0	1	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
142	Sri Lanka	0	0	5	0.22	6	0.26	0	0.01	0	0.01
143	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0.1	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
144	Tuvalu	0	26.81	0	28.08	0	26.39	0	21.73	0	17.56
145	Cuba	17	1.47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Miscellaneous Foods Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, according to FAO Food Balances, the United Kingdom had the largest listed miscellaneous foods supply among the 144 reporters with reported values, at 831 thousand tonnes. The Philippines ranked second at 336 thousand tonnes, while Saudi Arabia ranked third at 306 thousand tonnes. Grenada had the highest per-capita miscellaneous foods food supply at 57.19 kilograms per person per year. These FAO Food Balances figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measurement of miscellaneous foods 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 Miscellaneous 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 amount actually eaten, because food available for human consumption is not the same as actual dietary intake. No percentage change is shown where the base-year value is zero.

The reporter universe for this item contains 145 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 listed total of 6,255 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 144 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value.