Other Starchy Roots Consumption by Country

FAO Supply Utilization Accounts record edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, not elsewhere classified, available for human consumption, in tonnes and in grams per person per day, from 2019 through 2023. The file covers 119 reporters; 117 of them carry a 2023 value, adding to a listed total of 2,747,008 tonnes. DR Congo holds the largest 2023 supply — yet the five-year total moved 6,194 tonnes, as Pakistan's rise met DR Congo's fall and Vanuatu's collapse in reported supply.

DR Congo reported the largest 2023 supply at 707,700 tonnes, while Namibia recorded the highest per-capita figure at 267.32 grams per person per day.

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#	Country	2023 (tonnes)2023	2023 (grams per person per day)2023
1	DR Congo CD	707.7K	18.33
2	Pakistan PK	491.4K	5.44
3	Namibia NA	289.12K	267.32
4	Peru PE	214.11K	17.33
5	Mexico MX	140.39K	2.96
6	Nepal NP	133.38K	12.31
7	Botswana BW	96.92K	107.06
8	Colombia CO	67.82K	3.55
9	Guinea-Bissau GW	63.69K	81.04
10	Sri Lanka LK	61.9K	7.38
11	Eswatini SZ	61.74K	137.47
12	Congo CG	57.19K	25.34
13	Haiti HT	48.71K	11.47
14	Venezuela VE	42.99K	4.16
15	Cambodia KH	37.48K	5.89
16	Bolivia BO	34.43K	7.7
17	Bhutan BT	30.8K	107.29
18	Jamaica JM	25.5K	24.6
19	Timor-Leste TL	19.47K	38.54
20	Ecuador EC	17.14K	2.61
21	Kenya KE	15.8K	0.78
22	Mozambique MZ	9.01K	0.73
23	Guyana GY	7.8K	25.85
24	Serbia RS	6.86K	2.78
25	Philippines PH	6.71K	0.16
26	Iraq IQ	5.21K	0.37
27	United States US	4.97K	0.04
28	Saudi Arabia SA	4.16K	0.34
29	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	3.75K	101.29
30	Costa Rica CR	3.49K	1.87
31	Ivory Coast CI	3.42K	0.3
32	Canada CA	3.38K	0.24
33	Fiji FJ	2.87K	8.52
34	Dominican Republic DO	2.53K	0.61
35	Samoa WS	2.46K	31.06
36	Egypt EG	2.34K	0.06
37	Tonga TO	2.22K	58.03
38	Macau MO	2.04K	7.82
39	Taiwan TW	1.89K	0.22
40	Tanzania TZ	1.74K	0.07
41	Vietnam VN	1.61K	0.04
42	Uganda UG	1.59K	0.09
43	Zimbabwe ZW	1.1K	0.18
44	Trinidad and Tobago TT	1.08K	1.96
45	South Korea KR	1.01K	0.05
46	Saint Lucia LC	783.29	11.97
47	Australia AU	708.61	0.07
48	Nicaragua NI	692.42	0.28
49	Suriname SR	480.78	2.09
50	Honduras HN	472	0.12
51	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	384.13	22.51
52	Hong Kong HK	321.98	0.12
53	Austria AT	221.54	0.07
54	Libya LY	219.8	0.08
55	Switzerland CH	186.33	0.06
56	French Polynesia PF	165.09	1.61
57	Oman OM	142.83	0.08
58	Morocco MA	142.43	0.01
59	Tuvalu TV	138.69	38.71
60	Belize BZ	138.58	0.92
61	Ghana GH	104.51	0.01
62	Sao Tome and Principe ST	101.8	1.21
63	Barbados BB	94.95	0.92
64	Bahrain BH	89.83	0.16
65	Poland PL	59.81	0
66	Gabon GA	50.59	0.06
67	Russia RU	47.11	0
68	Antigua and Barbuda AG	42.34	1.24
69	Ukraine UA	38.29	0
70	Belarus BY	35.67	0.01
71	Slovenia SI	33.24	0.04
72	Panama PA	30.77	0.02
73	Cyprus CY	30.2	0.06
74	Qatar QA	27.63	0.03
75	El Salvador SV	24.72	0.01
76	Montenegro ME	23.24	0.1
77	Kiribati KI	12.04	0.25
78	Seychelles SC	11.22	0.24
79	Romania RO	10.01	0
80	Iceland IS	9.68	0.07
81	Slovakia SK	7.88	0
82	Maldives MV	7.05	0.04
83	Hungary HU	6.5	0
84	New Caledonia NC	4.41	0.04
85	Croatia HR	3.9	0
86	Vanuatu VU	3.47	0.03
87	Lithuania LT	3.34	0
88	Marshall Islands MH	1.96	0.14
89	Georgia GE	1.17	0
90	Cape Verde CV	1.11	0.01
91	Grenada GD	0.99	0.02
92	Malta MT	0.83	0
93	Moldova MD	0.65	0
94	Latvia LV	0.44	0
95	Liberia LR	0.39	0
96	Jordan JO	0.36	0
97	Mauritius MU	0.27	0
98	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	0.17	0
99	Gambia GM	0.12	0
100	Sierra Leone SL	0.09	0
101	Azerbaijan AZ	0.08	0
102	Lesotho LS	0.08	0
103	Djibouti DJ	0.03	0
104	Afghanistan AF	0.01	0
105	Armenia AM	0.01	0
106	Algeria DZ	0	0
107	Bangladesh BD	0	0
108	France FR	0	0
109	Guatemala GT	0	0
110	Guinea GN	0	0
111	Kazakhstan KZ	0	0
112	Mongolia MN	0	0
113	Nauru NR	0	0
114	Niger NE	0	0
115	Rwanda RW	0	0
116	United Arab Emirates AE	0	0
117	Yemen YE	0	0

Four Facts From the Leftover Basket

• Five years netted minus 6,194 tonnes on a 2.75-million-tonne table.
• Pakistan added 161,163 tonnes while DR Congo lost 113,045.
• Vanuatu fell from 53,000 tonnes to 3.47 tonnes.
• Namibia is third by volume and first per person at 267.32 grams.

DR Congo Leads Volume; Namibia Leads per Person

DR Congo's 707,700 tonnes lead the 2023 table at 25.8 percent of the listed total, 1.44 times Pakistan's 491,404 in second. Namibia follows at 289,115 with Peru at 214,107; the top three hold 54.2 percent, the top five 67.1 percent and the top ten 82.5 percent. Mexico, Nepal, Botswana, Colombia, Guinea-Bissau and Sri Lanka complete the ten. Per person, Namibia stands first at 267.32 grams — third by volume and first per person — while DR Congo sits outside the per-person ten at 18.33 grams; Eswatini, Bhutan, Botswana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Guinea-Bissau follow Namibia.

Five Years Netted Minus 6,194 Tonnes

The common total moved from 2,751,595 tonnes to 2,745,401, down 6,194 tonnes or 0.2 percent across 113 reporters. Pakistan added 161,163 tonnes (up 48.8 percent) while DR Congo lost 113,045 (down 13.8 percent); Vanuatu fell 52,997 tonnes (down 100.0 percent) to 3.47 tonnes, with Nepal down 21,530 (down 13.9 percent) and Venezuela down 13,805 (down 24.3 percent); Namibia added 14,786 (up 5.4 percent) while Mexico fell 13,292 (down 8.6 percent), and Colombia added 12,088 (up 21.7 percent). Two reporters left at zero; four entered with 1,607 tonnes between them.

2022 to 2023: Up 3.7 Percent

The common total rose from 2,649,035 tonnes to 2,747,008, up 97,973 tonnes or 3.7 percent across 117 reporters, with none entering or leaving. Pakistan added 68,888 tonnes (up 16.3 percent), with Mexico adding 13,110 (up 10.3 percent), Colombia 9,614 (up 16.5 percent), Peru 6,125 (up 2.9 percent) and Sri Lanka 5,000 (up 8.8 percent); Uganda fell 5,767 (down 78.4 percent), with Nepal down 3,723 (down 2.7 percent) and the United States down 3,539 (down 41.6 percent).

What Does This Leftover Basket Cover?

The FAO item gathers edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content that fit no other item — a residual basket, not a single crop. 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.

Other Starchy Roots Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

DR Congo had the largest 2023 listed supply at 707,700 tonnes, while Namibia had the highest per-capita figure at 267.32 grams per person per day. The 2023 listed total was 2,747,008 tonnes across 117 reporters, down 0.2 percent on a common-reporter basis since 2019. 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	DR Congo	820.75K	24.19	727.39K	20.76	735.32K	20.32	706.53K	18.9	707.7K	18.33
2	Pakistan	330.24K	3.92	179.56K	2.09	353.65K	4.05	422.52K	4.75	491.4K	5.44
3	Namibia	274.33K	283.56	275.7K	276.81	280.17K	273.11	287.54K	272.62	289.12K	267.32
4	Peru	206.9K	17.47	208.55K	17.4	207.76K	17.17	207.98K	17.02	214.11K	17.33
5	Mexico	153.68K	3.35	186.06K	4.02	193.09K	4.14	127.28K	2.71	140.39K	2.96
6	Nepal	154.91K	14.94	142.79K	13.51	141.8K	13.18	137.1K	12.64	133.38K	12.31
7	Botswana	91.88K	107.94	97K	112.33	96.46K	110.05	96.37K	108.21	96.92K	107.06
8	Colombia	55.73K	3.06	89.02K	4.82	66.81K	3.58	58.21K	3.08	67.82K	3.55
9	Guinea-Bissau	54.78K	76.27	60.69K	82.59	64.21K	85.44	63.5K	82.63	63.69K	81.04
10	Sri Lanka	59.7K	7.3	59.8K	7.26	60.7K	7.33	56.9K	6.83	61.9K	7.38
11	Eswatini	59.51K	138.17	58.16K	133.6	61.12K	138.78	63.49K	142.71	61.74K	137.47
12	Congo	50.61K	24.68	54.09K	25.76	54.96K	25.55	55.83K	25.34	57.19K	25.34
13	Haiti	47.98K	11.84	48.32K	11.77	48.65K	11.72	48.6K	11.57	48.71K	11.47
14	Venezuela	56.8K	5.38	57.27K	5.52	42.36K	4.11	43.03K	4.18	42.99K	4.16
15	Cambodia	36.45K	6.06	35.47K	5.81	36.01K	5.81	37K	5.89	37.48K	5.89
16	Bolivia	36.25K	8.51	37.15K	8.61	34.99K	8.03	34.68K	7.87	34.43K	7.7
17	Bhutan	29.24K	104.75	29.15K	103.7	29.76K	105.14	30.68K	107.62	30.8K	107.29
18	Jamaica	24.18K	23.46	21.87K	21.17	23.32K	22.51	24K	23.16	25.5K	24.6
19	Timor-Leste	21.14K	44.51	21.02K	43.43	20.52K	41.63	21K	42.02	19.47K	38.54
20	Ecuador	15.04K	2.38	13.58K	2.12	15.9K	2.46	15.07K	2.32	17.14K	2.61
21	Kenya	17.53K	0.94	15.88K	0.83	15.85K	0.82	15.83K	0.8	15.8K	0.78
22	Mozambique	8.79K	0.81	8.91K	0.79	9.05K	0.78	9.13K	0.77	9.01K	0.73
23	Guyana	7.14K	24.22	7.77K	26.37	7.32K	24.6	7.85K	26.19	7.8K	25.85
24	Serbia	5.9K	2.32	6.26K	2.48	6.24K	2.5	6.98K	2.81	6.86K	2.78
25	Philippines	6.77K	0.17	5.43K	0.13	6.84K	0.17	6.65K	0.16	6.71K	0.16
26	Iraq	19.23	0	0.02	0	13.79	0	5.11K	0.37	5.21K	0.37
27	United States	7.49K	0.06	10.91K	0.09	9.14K	0.07	8.51K	0.07	4.97K	0.04
28	Saudi Arabia	4.48K	0.4	1.64K	0.14	1.16K	0.1	700.35	0.06	4.16K	0.34
29	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2.95K	77.65	3.01K	79.62	3.18K	84.79	3.04K	81.52	3.75K	101.29
30	Costa Rica	4.73K	2.59	6.49K	3.53	5.73K	3.1	4.86K	2.62	3.49K	1.87
31	Ivory Coast	3.21K	0.31	2.88K	0.27	3.22K	0.3	3.3K	0.3	3.42K	0.3
32	Canada	4.03K	0.29	4.66K	0.33	4.06K	0.29	3.74K	0.26	3.38K	0.24
33	Fiji	2.75K	8.23	2.84K	8.51	3K	8.98	2.86K	8.53	2.87K	8.52
34	Dominican Republic	765	0.19	754.9	0.19	687.74	0.17	1.4K	0.34	2.53K	0.61
35	Samoa	1.91K	24.98	2.46K	31.84	2.45K	31.41	2.44K	31.07	2.46K	31.06
36	Egypt	1.74K	0.04	2.65K	0.07	2.42K	0.06	3.53K	0.09	2.34K	0.06
37	Tonga	1.85K	48.03	2.06K	53.34	2.12K	54.96	2.23K	58.07	2.22K	58.03
38	Macau	2.4K	9.78	1.91K	7.65	2.04K	8.04	2.03K	7.91	2.04K	7.82
39	Taiwan	1.77K	0.2	1.63K	0.19	1.48K	0.17	2K	0.23	1.89K	0.22
40	Tanzania	1.91K	0.09	1.59K	0.07	1.65K	0.07	1.82K	0.08	1.74K	0.07
41	Vietnam	-	-	-	-	-	-	345.54	0.01	1.61K	0.04
42	Uganda	0	0	0	0	957.44	0.06	7.36K	0.43	1.59K	0.09
43	Zimbabwe	1.14K	0.2	1.1K	0.19	1.1K	0.19	1.1K	0.19	1.1K	0.18
44	Trinidad and Tobago	3.37K	6.22	3.24K	5.99	2.17K	3.99	1.13K	2.07	1.08K	1.96
45	South Korea	1.61K	0.09	1.55K	0.08	1.79K	0.09	1.63K	0.09	1.01K	0.05
46	Saint Lucia	675	10.41	764.6	11.75	697.83	10.71	774.44	11.87	783.29	11.97
47	Australia	822.06	0.09	605.65	0.06	602.44	0.06	576.51	0.06	708.61	0.07
48	Nicaragua	628.52	0.27	771.43	0.32	598.66	0.25	682.99	0.28	692.42	0.28
49	Suriname	487.83	2.21	467.07	2.09	452.39	2.01	474.78	2.09	480.78	2.09
50	Honduras	4.67K	1.29	4.77K	1.29	4.87K	1.3	31	0.01	472	0.12
51	Saint Kitts and Nevis	441.86	25.78	408.94	23.9	424.01	24.84	385.8	22.63	384.13	22.51
52	Hong Kong	708.17	0.26	445.41	0.16	311.15	0.11	114.49	0.04	321.98	0.12
53	Austria	152.34	0.05	201.57	0.06	278.31	0.09	222.31	0.07	221.54	0.07
54	Libya	0	0	0.01	0	-	-	0	0	219.8	0.08
55	Switzerland	166.62	0.05	195.39	0.06	182.48	0.06	184.68	0.06	186.33	0.06
56	French Polynesia	4.46K	43.78	4.44K	43.59	4.49K	43.95	162.57	1.59	165.09	1.61
57	Oman	103.86	0.06	180.75	0.11	160.78	0.1	30.61	0.02	142.83	0.08
58	Morocco	80.57	0.01	128.98	0.01	126.78	0.01	127.06	0.01	142.43	0.01
59	Tuvalu	137.04	35.48	137.36	36.19	138.15	37.13	139.84	38.34	138.69	38.71
60	Belize	132.37	0.94	142.78	1	147.82	1.02	146.76	1	138.58	0.92
61	Ghana	63.34	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	104.51	0.01
62	Sao Tome and Principe	69.98	0.9	61.37	0.77	103.18	1.27	101.81	1.23	101.8	1.21
63	Barbados	155.86	1.52	152.59	1.48	115.97	1.13	147.99	1.44	94.95	0.92
64	Bahrain	158.12	0.29	107.84	0.2	183.19	0.33	110.19	0.2	89.83	0.16
65	Poland	52.45	0	61.71	0	107.55	0.01	56.25	0	59.81	0
66	Gabon	180.7	0.22	103.16	0.12	140.33	0.16	185.28	0.21	50.59	0.06
67	Russia	10.76	0	0	0	0	0	25.82	0	47.11	0
68	Antigua and Barbuda	65.64	1.97	10.57	0.32	24.37	0.72	33.39	0.99	42.34	1.24
69	Ukraine	4.82	0	10.28	0	32.87	0	39.47	0	38.29	0
70	Belarus	2.06	0	20.49	0.01	16.79	0	11.2	0	35.67	0.01
71	Slovenia	36.58	0.05	33.13	0.04	29.26	0.04	33.2	0.04	33.24	0.04
72	Panama	116.67	0.08	38.84	0.02	70.78	0.04	52.84	0.03	30.77	0.02
73	Cyprus	19.88	0.04	31.74	0.07	19.17	0.04	18.97	0.04	30.2	0.06
74	Qatar	58	0.06	43.1	0.04	50.53	0.05	52.83	0.05	27.63	0.03
75	El Salvador	0	0	0	0	12.97	0.01	13.47	0.01	24.72	0.01
76	Montenegro	0.06	0	3.93	0.02	7.05	0.03	16.76	0.07	23.24	0.1
77	Kiribati	14.5	0.32	0.01	0	8.46	0.18	24.5	0.51	12.04	0.25
78	Seychelles	6.03	0.14	11.48	0.26	6.29	0.14	12.78	0.28	11.22	0.24
79	Romania	12.57	0	9.8	0	6.68	0	6.93	0	10.01	0
80	Iceland	8.44	0.06	6.32	0.05	4.22	0.03	8.32	0.06	9.68	0.07
81	Slovakia	5.41	0	12.37	0.01	17.42	0.01	5.4	0	7.88	0
82	Maldives	1.87K	10.53	1.89K	10.32	3.85	0.02	11.17	0.06	7.05	0.04
83	Hungary	6.67	0	6.74	0	6.63	0	6.48	0	6.5	0
84	New Caledonia	4.31	0.04	2.29	0.02	9	0.09	4.21	0.04	4.41	0.04
85	Croatia	3.49	0	2.05	0	3.19	0	3.98	0	3.9	0
86	Vanuatu	53K	497.31	52K	476.7	49.51K	443.46	991.86	8.68	3.47	0.03
87	Lithuania	5.19	0.01	3.1	0	2.82	0	4.72	0	3.34	0
88	Marshall Islands	1.2	0.07	1.76	0.11	2.88	0.19	1.72	0.12	1.96	0.14
89	Georgia	0.26	0	0.51	0	3	0	4.42	0	1.17	0
90	Cape Verde	0.56	0	0	0	0.66	0	0.53	0	1.11	0.01
91	Grenada	1.5K	35.43	600	14.13	946.47	22.22	0.68	0.02	0.99	0.02
92	Malta	0.04	0	0.27	0	0.12	0	0.15	0	0.83	0
93	Moldova	0.09	0	1.86	0	0.34	0	2.17	0	0.65	0
94	Latvia	0.84	0	0.36	0	0.54	0	0.31	0	0.44	0
95	Liberia	11.24	0.01	1.44	0	1.41	0	0	0	0.39	0
96	Jordan	22	0.01	37.84	0.01	28.58	0.01	38.31	0.01	0.36	0
97	Mauritius	0.03	0	0.85	0	0.97	0	0.02	0	0.27	0
98	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	0.16	0	0.33	0	0.09	0	0.17	0
99	Gambia	0.27	0	8.3	0.01	59.89	0.06	0.12	0	0.12	0
100	Sierra Leone	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0.09	0
101	Azerbaijan	0	0	0	0	0.99	0	0.59	0	0.08	0
102	Lesotho	0	0	0.03	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.08	0
103	Djibouti	3.43K	8.64	9.25K	22.94	9.54K	23.31	0	0	0.03	0
104	Afghanistan	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0
105	Armenia	-	-	0	0	-	-	0.01	0	0.01	0
106	Algeria	19.01	0	0.13	0	9.26	0	8.89	0	0	0
107	Bangladesh	137.56	0	560	0.01	2.16K	0.04	0	0	0	0
108	France	142.48	0.01	64.24	0	292.77	0.01	0	0	0	0
109	Guatemala	0	0	0.65	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
110	Guinea	0	0	0	0	1.48	0	0.63	0	0	0
111	Kazakhstan	0.57	0	9.22	0	4.38	0	0	0	0	0
112	Mongolia	0.05	0	0.01	0	0.03	0	0.73	0	0	0
113	Nauru	2.92	0.69	2.03	0.48	0	0	0.35	0.08	0	0
114	Niger	1.98K	0.24	55.77	0.01	0	0	45.15	0	0	0
115	Rwanda	4.19	0	72.81	0.02	9.13	0	16.07	0	0	0
116	United Arab Emirates	409.09	0.12	127.62	0.04	0	0	0	0	0	0
117	Yemen	0	0	0.62	0	22.87	0	0.18	0	0	0
118	Argentina	0	0	81.63	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
119	Uruguay	0	0	0.01	0	0.1	0	-	-	-	-

Methodology

A 119-reporter universe sits behind the tables: every reporter with a value in any year from 2019 through 2023, reporters only, with World, regional and China (aggregate) rows excluded and China standing for the China reporter. Percentages take the earlier endpoint year as their base across reporters present in both years; zero-base years produce no percentage, and small-base percentages should be read with the base in view.

FAO Supply Utilization Accounts food supply quantity, element 5141 in tonnes for totals and element 665 in grams per capita per day, follows this residual item over 2019-2023. The object counted is availability for human consumption in the reference year, not intake. Zero reports zero and blank reports nothing. The 2023 listed total of 2,747,008 tonnes sums the 117 reporters with a 2023 value, in tonnes as published. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT Supply Utilization Accounts, Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c., fresh, food supply quantity (tonnes; g/capita/day), 2019-2023. Compiled by StatsGeo.