Other Oilcrops Consumption by Country

FAO Food Balances data record 1,049 thousand tonnes of listed other oilcrops food supply in 2023 across 86 reporters with reported values. Nigeria accounts for 357 thousand tonnes of that total, ahead of South Korea at 302 thousand tonnes and DR Congo at 105 thousand tonnes. South Korea records the highest per-capita food supply at 5.84 kilograms per person per year. The series spans 2019 through 2023, although some reporters have missing values in individual years.

Nigeria leads the 2023 ranking at 357 thousand tonnes, only 1.18 times South Korea at 302 thousand tonnes. South Korea tops the per-capita ranking at 5.84 kilograms per person per year, ahead of Gambia at 2.04 kilograms.

Other Oilcrops Food Supply at a Glance

• Nigeria had the largest listed other oilcrops food supply in 2023 at 357 thousand tonnes.
• South Korea ranked second at 302 thousand tonnes, followed by DR Congo at 105 thousand tonnes.
• South Korea had the highest per-capita food supply at 5.84 kilograms per person per year.
• The 2023 listed total was 1,049 thousand tonnes across 86 reporters with reported values.
• Among 85 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed other oilcrops food supply increased by 336 thousand tonnes, or 47.2 percent.
• The FAO Food element measures food available for human consumption and is not a direct measure of the amount actually eaten.

Key Takeaways

In 2023, Nigeria led listed other oilcrops food supply at 357 thousand tonnes, with South Korea second at 302 thousand tonnes and DR Congo third at 105 thousand tonnes. Türkiye followed at 100 thousand tonnes and Ghana at 53 thousand tonnes. South Korea's 5.84 kilograms per person per year lead the per-capita ranking, followed by Gambia at 2.04 kilograms.

Between 2022 and 2023, listed supply across the 86 reporters with data in both years rose from 823 thousand tonnes to 1,049 thousand tonnes, a gain of 226 thousand tonnes (27.5 percent), with South Korea's 169-thousand-tonne jump accounting for nearly three-quarters of the increase. Since 2019, the common-reporter total has grown 47.2 percent, with South Korea contributing 45.8 percent of the increase. These figures represent food available for human consumption in the FAO Food Balances and should not be interpreted as the amount of other oilcrops actually eaten.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	Nigeria NG	357	1.57
2	South Korea KR	302	5.84
3	DR Congo CD	105	0.99
4	Türkiye TR	100	1.14
5	Ghana GH	53	1.56
6	Cameroon CM	32	1.13
7	Iran IR	22	0.24
8	India IN	15	0.01
9	Vietnam VN	8	0.08
10	Gambia GM	6	2.04
11	Jordan JO	6	0.48
12	Germany DE	5	0.05
13	Libya LY	5	0.72
14	Congo CG	3	0.52
15	Iraq IQ	3	0.09
16	Taiwan TW	3	0.13
17	United States US	3	0.01
18	Ethiopia ET	2	0.02
19	Mauritania MR	2	0.45
20	Norway NO	2	0.43
21	Poland PL	2	0.04
22	Russia RU	2	0.02
23	Tajikistan TJ	2	0.15
24	Afghanistan AF	1	0.04
25	Austria AT	1	0.12
26	Canada CA	1	0.04
27	Egypt EG	1	0.01
28	Kuwait KW	1	0.12
29	Latvia LV	1	0.66
30	Senegal SN	1	0.08
31	Serbia RS	1	0.15
32	United Kingdom GB	1	0.01
33	Algeria DZ	0	0
34	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0	0.19
35	Armenia AM	0	0.04
36	Bahamas BS	0	0.02
37	Bahrain BH	0	0.18
38	Barbados BB	0	0
39	Belarus BY	0	0
40	Bhutan BT	0	0.03
41	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	0	0
42	Botswana BW	0	0.01
43	Burkina Faso BF	0	0
44	Chile CL	0	0
45	Comoros KM	0	0
46	Croatia HR	0	0.02
47	Cyprus CY	0	0
48	Denmark DK	0	0.01
49	Fiji FJ	0	0.16
50	Finland FI	0	0
51	Georgia GE	0	0
52	Greece GR	0	0
53	Grenada GD	0	0.08
54	Guinea-Bissau GW	0	0
55	Hong Kong HK	0	0
56	Ireland IE	0	0.04
57	Israel IL	0	0.05
58	Kyrgyzstan KG	0	0.01
59	Lebanon LB	0	0
60	Lesotho LS	0	0
61	Lithuania LT	0	0.04
62	Luxembourg LU	0	0.21
63	Macau MO	0	0
64	Malaysia MY	0	0.01
65	Maldives MV	0	0.06
66	Marshall Islands MH	0	0.02
67	Mauritius MU	0	0.01
68	Nauru NR	0	0
69	Netherlands NL	0	0
70	New Zealand NZ	0	0.01
71	North Macedonia MK	0	0.02
72	Oman OM	0	0.02
73	Philippines PH	0	0
74	Qatar QA	0	0.11
75	Romania RO	0	0.01
76	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	0
77	Samoa WS	0	0.78
78	Seychelles SC	0	0.19
79	Slovakia SK	0	0.06
80	Slovenia SI	0	0.05
81	Spain ES	0	0
82	Sweden SE	0	0
83	Switzerland CH	0	0.01
84	Syria SY	0	0
85	United Arab Emirates AE	0	0
86	Yemen YE	0	0

Other Oilcrops Consumption by Country in 2023

Nigeria holds 357 thousand tonnes, or 34.0 percent of the 1,049-thousand-tonne listed total. South Korea follows at 302 thousand tonnes (28.8 percent) and DR Congo at 105 thousand tonnes (10.0 percent), with Türkiye fourth at 100 thousand tonnes and Ghana fifth at 53 thousand tonnes.

The top three reporters account for 72.8 percent of the listed total, while the top five account for 87.4 percent and the top ten account for 95.3 percent. The gap between first and second is just 55 thousand tonnes.

South Korea Jumps 169 Thousand Tonnes as Supply Grows 27.5 Percent Between 2022 and 2023

Among the 86 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply increased from 823 thousand tonnes to 1,049 thousand tonnes, a gain of 226 thousand tonnes (27.5 percent). The 2022 and 2023 listed totals come from the same 86 reporters, with no reporter entering or leaving the comparison. South Korea added 169 thousand tonnes (up 127.1 percent), Nigeria added 41 thousand tonnes (up 13.0 percent), Türkiye added 41 thousand tonnes (up 69.5 percent), Ghana added 18 thousand tonnes (up 51.4 percent), Gambia added 6 thousand tonnes from a zero base and Libya added 4 thousand tonnes (up 400.0 percent), while Egypt fell 26 thousand tonnes (down 96.3 percent) and India fell 14 thousand tonnes (down 48.3 percent).

Other Oilcrops Food Supply Grows 47.2 Percent Since 2019

For the 85 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply rose from 712 thousand tonnes to 1,048 thousand tonnes, a gain of 336 thousand tonnes (47.2 percent). The 2019 total includes 86 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 86; Kiribati, with a reported zero in 2019, had no reported 2023 value, while Afghanistan entered with 1 thousand tonnes. South Korea added 154 thousand tonnes (up 104.1 percent), Türkiye added 75 thousand tonnes (up 300.0 percent), DR Congo added 45 thousand tonnes (up 75.0 percent), Ghana added 42 thousand tonnes (up 381.8 percent) and Nigeria added 17 thousand tonnes (up 5.0 percent), while India fell 6 thousand tonnes (down 28.6 percent). Vietnam and Gambia each added modest quantities from zero bases.

South Korea's increase from 148 to 302 thousand tonnes accounts for much of the change over the five-year period, contributing 45.8 percent of the net increase, with Türkiye, DR Congo and Ghana adding a combined 162 thousand tonnes. Per capita, South Korea's 5.84 kilograms lead Gambia at 2.04 kilograms, while Nigeria, first by total, records 1.57 kilograms.

What Does Other Oilcrops Consumption Measure?

For FAO Food Balances, the Oilcrops, Other figure used here covers oil-bearing crops outside the separately recorded oilcrop items, 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 how much of these crops people actually consumed. The figure represents the Food element and does not include quantities allocated to other uses in the food balance.

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	Nigeria	340	1.62	328	1.53	318	1.45	316	1.42	357	1.57
2	South Korea	148	2.85	146	2.82	124	2.4	133	2.56	302	5.84
3	DR Congo	60	0.64	100	1.04	100	1.01	102	1	105	0.99
4	Türkiye	25	0.29	34	0.4	37	0.43	59	0.68	100	1.14
5	Ghana	11	0.37	29	0.92	28	0.87	35	1.05	53	1.56
6	Cameroon	33	1.28	32	1.22	33	1.23	35	1.25	32	1.13
7	Iran	26	0.3	21	0.24	23	0.26	22	0.25	22	0.24
8	India	21	0.01	23	0.02	8	0.01	29	0.02	15	0.01
9	Vietnam	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0.11	8	0.08
10	Gambia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	2.04
11	Jordan	3	0.31	3	0.29	3	0.25	6	0.51	6	0.48
12	Germany	5	0.06	6	0.07	6	0.07	5	0.06	5	0.05
13	Libya	1	0.19	0	0.01	1	0.19	1	0.16	5	0.72
14	Congo	3	0.59	3	0.57	3	0.55	3	0.54	3	0.52
15	Iraq	8	0.22	9	0.25	3	0.09	5	0.14	3	0.09
16	Taiwan	2	0.08	3	0.12	3	0.14	2	0.1	3	0.13
17	United States	4	0.01	3	0.01	4	0.01	5	0.01	3	0.01
18	Ethiopia	2	0.02	2	0.02	2	0.02	2	0.02	2	0.02
19	Mauritania	2	0.53	2	0.5	2	0.48	2	0.47	2	0.45
20	Norway	3	0.56	3	0.55	2	0.34	3	0.47	2	0.43
21	Poland	1	0.02	2	0.05	2	0.04	2	0.05	2	0.04
22	Russia	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.03	2	0.02
23	Tajikistan	0	0.01	1	0.12	1	0.11	3	0.31	2	0.15
24	Afghanistan	-	-	0	0.01	0	0	1	0.02	1	0.04
25	Austria	2	0.22	3	0.32	2	0.25	2	0.18	1	0.12
26	Canada	2	0.05	1	0.04	2	0.05	1	0.03	1	0.04
27	Egypt	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	0.24	1	0.01
28	Kuwait	0	0.01	0	0.06	0	0.05	2	0.39	1	0.12
29	Latvia	0	0.15	1	0.72	0	0.05	0	0.01	1	0.66
30	Senegal	1	0.09	1	0.08	1	0.08	1	0.08	1	0.08
31	Serbia	1	0.2	1	0.19	1	0.12	1	0.08	1	0.15
32	United Kingdom	1	0.02	1	0.02	1	0.01	0	0.01	1	0.01
33	Algeria	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	Antigua and Barbuda	0	0.08	0	0	0	0.08	0	0.22	0	0.19
35	Armenia	0	0.11	0	0.11	0	0.02	0	0.06	0	0.04
36	Bahamas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.02
37	Bahrain	0	0.18	0	0.17	0	0.21	0	0.24	0	0.18
38	Barbados	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.04	0	0
39	Belarus	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	0	0	0	0
40	Bhutan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	0	0.03
41	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	Botswana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
43	Burkina Faso	0	0	1	0.04	1	0.04	0	0.01	0	0
44	Chile	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
45	Comoros	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0.09	0	0
46	Croatia	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.02
47	Cyprus	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
48	Denmark	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
49	Fiji	0	0.05	0	0.08	0	0.05	0	0.05	0	0.16
50	Finland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
51	Georgia	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0	0	0	0	0
52	Greece	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	0	0
53	Grenada	0	0	0	0.03	0	0.09	0	0.08	0	0.08
54	Guinea-Bissau	0	0.09	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
55	Hong Kong	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
56	Ireland	0	0.08	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0.05	0	0.04
57	Israel	1	0.1	0	0.06	1	0.06	1	0.06	0	0.05
58	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.01
59	Lebanon	0	0.02	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
60	Lesotho	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.05	0	0.06	0	0
61	Lithuania	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.04
62	Luxembourg	0	0.29	0	0.28	0	0.29	0	0.27	0	0.21
63	Macau	0	0.02	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
64	Malaysia	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01
65	Maldives	0	0.05	0	0.02	0	0.05	0	0.04	0	0.06
66	Marshall Islands	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.03	0	0.02
67	Mauritius	0	0.06	0	0.02	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.01
68	Nauru	0	0	-	-	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
69	Netherlands	0	0	0	0.02	0	0	0	0	0	0
70	New Zealand	0	0.04	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.01
71	North Macedonia	0	0.03	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0.02	0	0.02
72	Oman	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.07	0	0.01	0	0.02
73	Philippines	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01	0	0
74	Qatar	1	0.2	1	0.21	0	0.11	1	0.2	0	0.11
75	Romania	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
76	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0
77	Samoa	0	0.91	0	0.83	0	0.86	0	0.76	0	0.78
78	Seychelles	0	0.12	0	0.05	0	0.1	0	0.16	0	0.19
79	Slovakia	0	0.02	0	0.09	0	0.07	0	0.06	0	0.06
80	Slovenia	0	0.06	0	0.04	0	0.05	0	0.05	0	0.05
81	Spain	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
82	Sweden	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0
83	Switzerland	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.01
84	Syria	0	0	1	0.04	1	0.04	0	0	0	0
85	United Arab Emirates	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0
86	Yemen	4	0.11	1	0.02	0	0	0	0	0	0
87	Kiribati	0	0.02	-	-	0	0	-	-	-	-

Other Oilcrops Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, Nigeria had the largest listed other oilcrops food supply among the 86 reporters with reported values, at 357 thousand tonnes. South Korea ranked second at 302 thousand tonnes, while DR Congo ranked third at 105 thousand tonnes. South Korea had the highest per-capita other oilcrops food supply at 5.84 kilograms per person per year. These FAO Food Balances figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measurement of other oilcrops 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 Oilcrops, Other 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. No percentage change is shown where the base-year value is zero.

The reporter universe for this item contains 87 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 1,049 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 86 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value.