Peanut Butter Consumption by Country

The United States lost nine-tenths of its peanut-butter supply in five years, leaving the Philippines first in 2023 by just 1,117 tonnes. The Philippines held 8,869 tonnes, 10.4 percent of the 85,381-tonne total. Chile came second and the United Kingdom third. Per person, Barbados led. All figures count food available for human consumption, not actual intake.

Peanut Butter Consumption by Country: Key Facts

• The Philippines had the highest peanut butter supply in 2023 at 8,869 tonnes, narrowly ahead of Chile at 7,752 tonnes.
• Barbados had the highest supply per person at 3.51 grams per person per day.
• Peanut butter supply across the 106 countries with a 2023 value totaled 85,381 tonnes.
• The United States recorded the largest five-year decline, falling by 10,393 tonnes from 2019 to 2023.
• These figures measure food available for human consumption, not the amount actually eaten.

France placed fourth at 6,874 tonnes and South Korea fifth at 5,525, with Germany sixth (5,090), the Netherlands seventh (4,096) and Taiwan eighth (3,921). Hong Kong (2,627) and Ireland (2,473) completed the top ten. The top five held 43.1 percent of the total, and the top ten 64.4 percent. Per person, Grenada (2.41) and Fiji (2.25) followed Barbados, with Suriname at 2.12.

Peanut Butter Supply Changes

• The Philippines led Chile by 1,117 tonnes at the top.
• The United States fell 89.1 percent in the latest year, from 10,301 tonnes to 1,122.
• Saudi Arabia went to zero after 8,327 tonnes in 2022.
• South Korea entered at 5,525 tonnes with no 2019 value.

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#	Country	2023 (tonnes)2023	2023 (grams per person per day)2023
1	Philippines PH	8.87K	0.21
2	Chile CL	7.75K	1.08
3	United Kingdom GB	7.75K	0.31
4	France FR	6.87K	0.28
5	South Korea KR	5.53K	0.29
6	Germany DE	5.09K	0.16
7	Netherlands NL	4.1K	0.62
8	Taiwan TW	3.92K	0.46
9	Hong Kong HK	2.63K	0.97
10	Ireland IE	2.47K	1.3
11	Spain ES	2.29K	0.13
12	Sweden SE	2.21K	0.57
13	Italy IT	1.73K	0.08
14	Norway NO	1.64K	0.81
15	Panama PA	1.6K	0.98
16	Romania RO	1.48K	0.21
17	Papua New Guinea PG	1.42K	0.37
18	Qatar QA	1.24K	1.14
19	Poland PL	1.2K	0.08
20	United States US	1.12K	0.01
21	Finland FI	1.05K	0.51
22	Denmark DK	1.02K	0.47
23	Lebanon LB	960.82	0.46
24	Austria AT	956.07	0.29
25	Dominican Republic DO	817.72	0.2
26	Croatia HR	813.27	0.57
27	Fiji FJ	758.35	2.25
28	North Macedonia MK	507.1	0.76
29	Costa Rica CR	496.71	0.27
30	Suriname SR	485.6	2.12
31	Bahrain BH	484.1	0.84
32	Czech Republic CZ	482.8	0.12
33	Guyana GY	438.52	1.45
34	Slovakia SK	422.17	0.21
35	Barbados BB	361.31	3.51
36	Colombia CO	323.73	0.02
37	Russia RU	274.6	0.01
38	Zimbabwe ZW	267.88	0.04
39	Portugal PT	260.85	0.07
40	Hungary HU	255.98	0.07
41	Bahamas BS	233.59	1.6
42	Vanuatu VU	232.3	1.99
43	Bulgaria BG	216.29	0.09
44	Cyprus CY	205.16	0.42
45	French Polynesia PF	158.94	1.55
46	Malta MT	158.17	0.81
47	Iraq IQ	132.94	0.01
48	DR Congo CD	120.39	0
49	Estonia EE	119.33	0.24
50	Honduras HN	113.14	0.03
51	Ecuador EC	109.14	0.02
52	Grenada GD	102.84	2.41
53	Solomon Islands SB	94.66	0.32
54	Luxembourg LU	88.37	0.36
55	Albania AL	84.4	0.08
56	Haiti HT	84.05	0.02
57	Belize BZ	74	0.49
58	Latvia LV	73.79	0.11
59	New Caledonia NC	71.83	0.68
60	Lithuania LT	50.9	0.05
61	Cape Verde CV	50.62	0.27
62	Peru PE	45.1	0
63	Samoa WS	42.46	0.54
64	Cambodia KH	34.81	0.01
65	Bangladesh BD	34.51	0
66	Micronesia FM	33.51	0.82
67	Moldova MD	32.51	0.03
68	Kiribati KI	30.46	0.63
69	Venezuela VE	28.19	0
70	Slovenia SI	27.38	0.04
71	Saint Lucia LC	23.38	0.36
72	Yemen YE	23.31	0
73	Mongolia MN	21.85	0.02
74	Libya LY	20.8	0.01
75	Armenia AM	19.44	0.02
76	Cameroon CM	13.66	0
77	Tunisia TN	9.95	0
78	Angola AO	7.64	0
79	Tonga TO	7.38	0.19
80	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	7.28	0.43
81	Mauritius MU	6.42	0.01
82	Belarus BY	5.36	0
83	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	2.16	0.06
84	Afghanistan AF	1.27	0
85	Tuvalu TV	0.73	0.2
86	Iran IR	0.62	0
87	Guinea-Bissau GW	0.34	0
88	Turkmenistan TM	0.21	0
89	Gambia GM	0.07	0
90	Nauru NR	0.07	0.02
91	Marshall Islands MH	0.03	0
92	Tajikistan TJ	0.01	0
93	Algeria DZ	0	0
94	Belgium BE	0	0
95	Bolivia BO	0	0
96	Canada CA	0	0
97	China CN	0	0
98	Ethiopia ET	0	0
99	Gabon GA	0	0
100	Ghana GH	0	0
101	Kyrgyzstan KG	0	0
102	Nigeria NG	0	0
103	Oman OM	0	0
104	Saudi Arabia SA	0	0
105	Tanzania TZ	0	0
106	Zambia ZM	0	0

The Year That Reshuffled Peanut Butter

Across the 104 countries with values in both 2022 and 2023, supply fell 20.5 percent from 100,384 tonnes, a loss of 20,534 tonnes. The United States' 9,179-tonne fall and Saudi Arabia's 8,327 accounted for most of the net loss, while France shed 4,566 tonnes and Venezuela 1,391. Chile added 776 tonnes, Germany 730 and Ireland 721. One country left with 2 tonnes while two entered with 5,531.

Peanut Butter Over the Long Haul

Among the 97 countries reporting in both 2019 and 2023, the total slipped 4.4 percent from 83,304 tonnes, a loss of 3,645 tonnes. The United States' 10,393-tonne fall made up 285.2 percent of that net loss, with Saudi Arabia down 9,296 tonnes. Shares above 100 percent arise because gains elsewhere offset part of the losses. The United Kingdom added 5,381 tonnes, nearly one and a half times the net change in reverse. Nine countries entered with 5,722 tonnes between them while nine left with 592.

Small Countries Atop Peanut Butter Per Person

Barbados's 3.51 grams a day led the per-person table, ahead of Grenada at 2.41 and Fiji at 2.25. Suriname (2.12) and Vanuatu (1.99) followed, with the Bahamas sixth at 1.6 and French Polynesia seventh at 1.55. The Philippines, first by volume, managed only 0.21 grams, while Chile stood at 1.08. Ireland, tenth by volume, was the only volume top-ten country in the per-person top ten.

The Peanut Butter Table, Defined

This page follows the SUA item labelled Peanut butter 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.

Peanut Butter's Strangest Moves

The United States went from 18,100 tonnes in 2020 to 1,122 in 2023. Saudi Arabia's path ran from 12,337 tonnes in 2020 to zero in 2023. South Korea, by contrast, had no 2019 value and arrived at 5,525 tonnes, fifth place outright.

Peanut Butter 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	Philippines	7.91K	0.2	6.28K	0.15	6.91K	0.17	9.22K	0.22	8.87K	0.21
2	Chile	6.69K	0.95	5.99K	0.85	7.33K	1.03	6.98K	0.98	7.75K	1.08
3	United Kingdom	2.37K	0.1	2.52K	0.1	0	0	7.38K	0.3	7.75K	0.31
4	France	4.22K	0.18	6.22K	0.26	6.82K	0.28	11.44K	0.47	6.87K	0.28
5	South Korea	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5.53K	0.29
6	Germany	6.19K	0.2	7.3K	0.24	5.56K	0.18	4.36K	0.14	5.09K	0.16
7	Netherlands	2.13K	0.33	848.95	0.13	199.7	0.03	4.01K	0.61	4.1K	0.62
8	Taiwan	3.73K	0.43	4K	0.46	3.98K	0.46	3.91K	0.46	3.92K	0.46
9	Hong Kong	2.38K	0.87	2.59K	0.95	2.7K	0.99	2.61K	0.96	2.63K	0.97
10	Ireland	1.35K	0.75	2.22K	1.22	1.8K	0.98	1.75K	0.94	2.47K	1.3
11	Spain	2K	0.12	2.43K	0.14	2.42K	0.14	2.37K	0.14	2.29K	0.13
12	Sweden	1.82K	0.49	2.13K	0.56	2.27K	0.6	1.87K	0.49	2.21K	0.57
13	Italy	1.15K	0.05	1.5K	0.07	2.11K	0.1	2.33K	0.11	1.73K	0.08
14	Norway	1.27K	0.65	1.56K	0.79	1.63K	0.82	1.61K	0.81	1.64K	0.81
15	Panama	380.41	0.25	1.46K	0.93	2.06K	1.3	1.62K	1.01	1.6K	0.98
16	Romania	586.71	0.08	792.97	0.11	1.01K	0.14	1.28K	0.18	1.48K	0.21
17	Papua New Guinea	1.11K	0.32	768.27	0.21	1.36K	0.37	1.31K	0.35	1.42K	0.37
18	Qatar	1.54K	1.51	-	-	1.72K	1.68	1.81K	1.71	1.24K	1.14
19	Poland	155.35	0.01	151.61	0.01	90.22	0.01	1.01K	0.07	1.2K	0.08
20	United States	11.52K	0.09	18.1K	0.15	16.48K	0.13	10.3K	0.08	1.12K	0.01
21	Finland	459.58	0.23	638.75	0.32	634.28	0.31	930.7	0.46	1.05K	0.51
22	Denmark	670.68	0.32	1.09K	0.51	817.52	0.38	860.01	0.4	1.02K	0.47
23	Lebanon	660.96	0.31	747.71	0.36	672.05	0.32	920.15	0.44	960.82	0.46
24	Austria	384.46	0.12	755.82	0.23	734.73	0.22	688.1	0.21	956.07	0.29
25	Dominican Republic	452.75	0.11	535.87	0.13	598.02	0.15	665.23	0.16	817.72	0.2
26	Croatia	353.49	0.24	578.08	0.4	578.08	0.4	649.76	0.46	813.27	0.57
27	Fiji	499.54	1.5	519.1	1.55	766.78	2.29	549.2	1.64	758.35	2.25
28	North Macedonia	283.7	0.41	423.03	0.62	521.16	0.77	523.85	0.78	507.1	0.76
29	Costa Rica	312.7	0.17	321.69	0.18	341.14	0.18	395.18	0.21	496.71	0.27
30	Suriname	561.1	2.54	618.81	2.77	589.1	2.61	532.66	2.34	485.6	2.12
31	Bahrain	594.35	1.1	510.42	0.94	534.97	0.98	490.38	0.88	484.1	0.84
32	Czech Republic	418.41	0.11	314.11	0.08	365.35	0.1	380.64	0.1	482.8	0.12
33	Guyana	205.56	0.7	486.96	1.65	601.06	2.02	321.7	1.07	438.52	1.45
34	Slovakia	203.82	0.1	168.47	0.08	276.44	0.14	317.14	0.16	422.17	0.21
35	Barbados	58.59	0.57	303.58	2.95	410.91	3.99	353.07	3.43	361.31	3.51
36	Colombia	146.01	0.01	148.5	0.01	152.88	0.01	183.58	0.01	323.73	0.02
37	Russia	0	0	826.48	0.02	1.11K	0.02	565.6	0.01	274.6	0.01
38	Zimbabwe	298.67	0.05	270.95	0.05	243.24	0.04	267.88	0.05	267.88	0.04
39	Portugal	653.49	0.17	754.61	0.2	539.39	0.14	434.83	0.11	260.85	0.07
40	Hungary	122.06	0.03	198.43	0.06	262.3	0.07	250.12	0.07	255.98	0.07
41	Bahamas	275.09	1.91	316.52	2.19	153.15	1.06	366.48	2.53	233.59	1.6
42	Vanuatu	157.32	1.48	128.47	1.18	268.95	2.41	93.06	0.81	232.3	1.99
43	Bulgaria	558.04	0.22	345.64	0.14	244.66	0.1	259.42	0.1	216.29	0.09
44	Cyprus	94.55	0.2	105.83	0.22	139.55	0.29	134.94	0.28	205.16	0.42
45	French Polynesia	137.41	1.35	0	0	-	-	0	0	158.94	1.55
46	Malta	85.24	0.46	117.28	0.62	106.73	0.56	163.5	0.85	158.17	0.81
47	Iraq	38.84	0	6.9	0	66.3	0	45.86	0	132.94	0.01
48	DR Congo	5.67	0	0	0	0	0	3.34	0	120.39	0
49	Estonia	84.74	0.17	88.9	0.18	85.96	0.18	102.71	0.21	119.33	0.24
50	Honduras	-	-	0	0	-	-	35.15	0.01	113.14	0.03
51	Ecuador	27.77	0	25.17	0	19.53	0	29.66	0	109.14	0.02
52	Grenada	1.06	0.03	67.85	1.6	90.74	2.13	74.06	1.74	102.84	2.41
53	Solomon Islands	94.1	0.35	77.11	0.28	120.06	0.43	67.8	0.24	94.66	0.32
54	Luxembourg	42.12	0.19	55.14	0.24	60.85	0.26	71.47	0.3	88.37	0.36
55	Albania	41.54	0.04	0	0	0	0	86.97	0.08	84.4	0.08
56	Haiti	24.01	0.01	23.02	0.01	48	0.01	15.87	0	84.05	0.02
57	Belize	0	0	0	0	-	-	81	0.55	74	0.49
58	Latvia	44.62	0.06	45.47	0.07	66.05	0.1	67.55	0.1	73.79	0.11
59	New Caledonia	20.84	0.2	25.33	0.24	86.62	0.83	87.58	0.84	71.83	0.68
60	Lithuania	95.38	0.09	102.82	0.1	84.29	0.08	50.93	0.05	50.9	0.05
61	Cape Verde	25.75	0.14	35.75	0.19	22.37	0.12	36.4	0.19	50.62	0.27
62	Peru	20.72	0	37.24	0	71.37	0.01	49.68	0	45.1	0
63	Samoa	-	-	21.47	0.28	0	0	12.28	0.16	42.46	0.54
64	Cambodia	18.95	0	22.12	0	31.09	0.01	33.76	0.01	34.81	0.01
65	Bangladesh	19.2	0	3.24	0	50.46	0	25.8	0	34.51	0
66	Micronesia	20.87	0.52	33.15	0.82	25.42	0.62	27.81	0.68	33.51	0.82
67	Moldova	16.39	0.02	25.73	0.03	18.18	0.02	43.18	0.05	32.51	0.03
68	Kiribati	17.1	0.38	29.25	0.64	2.92	0.06	50.5	1.06	30.46	0.63
69	Venezuela	613.15	0.06	307.25	0.03	287.29	0.03	1.42K	0.14	28.19	0
70	Slovenia	70.08	0.09	94.87	0.12	44.3	0.06	45.94	0.06	27.38	0.04
71	Saint Lucia	140.56	2.17	157.48	2.42	19.17	0.29	22.57	0.35	23.38	0.36
72	Yemen	0	0	340.76	0.03	541.43	0.04	9.91	0	23.31	0
73	Mongolia	-	-	0	0	-	-	0	0	21.85	0.02
74	Libya	91.19	0.04	55.12	0.02	2.43	0	8.17	0	20.8	0.01
75	Armenia	12.94	0.01	13.27	0.01	13.47	0.01	11.36	0.01	19.44	0.02
76	Cameroon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13.66	0
77	Tunisia	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	0	9.95	0
78	Angola	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	0	7.64	0
79	Tonga	12.65	0.33	28.47	0.74	4.25	0.11	17.58	0.46	7.38	0.19
80	Saint Kitts and Nevis	118.34	6.91	5.57	0.33	7.25	0.42	9.16	0.54	7.28	0.43
81	Mauritius	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6.42	0.01
82	Belarus	-	-	-	-	-	-	7.57	0	5.36	0
83	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0	3.17	0.08	0	0	3.26	0.09	2.16	0.06
84	Afghanistan	0.72	0	4.95	0	2.15	0	0	0	1.27	0
85	Tuvalu	3.06	0.79	0.93	0.24	4.67	1.25	3.09	0.85	0.73	0.2
86	Iran	14.55	0	0	0	0	0	0.38	0	0.62	0
87	Guinea-Bissau	0.13	0	0.04	0	0.08	0	0.14	0	0.34	0
88	Turkmenistan	0.09	0	0	0	1.34	0	0.01	0	0.21	0
89	Gambia	0	0	0	0	11.71	0.01	0.09	0	0.07	0
90	Nauru	-	-	-	-	0.02	0.01	0.18	0.04	0.07	0.02
91	Marshall Islands	0.14	0.01	7.12	0.46	0.83	0.06	2.19	0.15	0.03	0
92	Tajikistan	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0
93	Algeria	2.92	0	0.06	0	1.61	0	0	0	0	0
94	Belgium	1.04K	0.25	1.3K	0.31	0	0	0	0	0	0
95	Bolivia	18.91	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
96	Canada	3.01K	0.22	838.67	0.06	643.82	0.05	656.67	0.05	0	0
97	China	0	0	0	0	0	0	119.25	0	0	0
98	Ethiopia	1.93	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
99	Gabon	4.63	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
100	Ghana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.94	0	0	0
101	Kyrgyzstan	13.88	0.01	16.11	0.01	11.1	0	9.59	0	0	0
102	Nigeria	235.27	0	536.02	0.01	5.48	0	0	0	0	0
103	Oman	717.7	0.43	887.11	0.54	833.92	0.51	68.97	0.04	0	0
104	Saudi Arabia	9.3K	0.84	12.34K	1.09	10K	0.87	8.33K	0.71	0	0
105	Tanzania	10.41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
106	Zambia	82.97	0.01	52.5	0.01	77.74	0.01	91.55	0.01	0	0
107	Kazakhstan	-	-	1.79K	0.25	-	-	-	-	-	-
108	Namibia	143.94	0.15	-	-	1.05K	1.02	-	-	-	-
109	Montenegro	108.24	0.48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
110	Ukraine	104.13	0.01	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
111	Maldives	0	0	0	0	98.27	0.52	-	-	-	-
112	Antigua and Barbuda	-	-	14.43	0.43	-	-	-	-	-	-
113	Liberia	2.69	0	3.72	0	2.59	0	-	-	-	-
114	Sierra Leone	0.41	0	0.02	0	0.04	0	1.5	0	-	-
115	Cuba	0.02	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
116	Kuwait	220.85	0.14	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
117	Timor-Leste	12.18	0.03	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-

Methodology

For peanut butter, 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 117 countries after removing World, regional and aggregate rows; 106 of them carry 2023 values. The numbers describe food available for human consumption. Source: FAO FAOSTAT, compiled by StatsGeo.