Pulses Consumption by Country

India held 22,137 thousand tonnes of listed pulses food supply in 2023, 37.2 percent of a 59,502-thousand-tonne total and 7.61 times the second-ranked reporter, yet second place itself was decided by 13 thousand tonnes between Ethiopia and China. The aggregate slipped 0.7 percent between 2022 and 2023 as Canada fell 90.3 percent and India and the United States declined, then stands 10.3 percent above its 2019 level on the strength of India, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Uganda. The per-capita leader is Niger at 50.67 kilograms per person per year, with Norway unexpectedly fifth at 21.17.

India leads at 22,137 thousand tonnes, far ahead of Ethiopia at 2,909 and China at 2,896, with Nigeria fourth at 2,727 and Brazil fifth at 2,661. Per capita the order runs through West Africa: Niger at 50.67 kilograms from 1,326 thousand tonnes, then Burkina Faso at 32.70 and Rwanda at 31.53 kilograms. India, first by total, records 15.39 kilograms per person.

Pulses Food Supply at a Glance

• India had the largest listed pulses food supply in 2023 at 22,137 thousand tonnes.
• Ethiopia ranked second at 2,909 thousand tonnes, followed by China at 2,896 thousand tonnes.
• Niger had the highest per-capita food supply at 50.67 kilograms per person per year.
• The listed total was 59,502 thousand tonnes across 175 reporters with reported values.
• Among 175 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed pulses food supply increased by 5,536 thousand tonnes, or 10.3 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 combined pulses category covers the dried legume items in the FAO Food Balances classification, principally beans, peas and other pulses. One reporter dominates the volume picture while the rest of the table is compressed: the gap between second and tenth place is only about 1,635 thousand tonnes.

Canada's near-disappearance from the table is the sharpest single move in either window, falling 91.4 percent over five years. Uganda and Kazakhstan more than doubled over the five-year period, while Norway's presence among the top per-capita reporters stands apart from an otherwise African and South Asian ranking.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	India IN	22.14K	15.39
2	Ethiopia ET	2.91K	22.6
3	China CN	2.9K	2.04
4	Nigeria NG	2.73K	11.97
5	Brazil BR	2.66K	12.6
6	Pakistan PK	1.62K	6.53
7	Bangladesh BD	1.5K	8.74
8	United States US	1.35K	3.93
9	Niger NE	1.33K	50.67
10	Tanzania TZ	1.27K	19.12
11	Türkiye TR	1.19K	13.6
12	Mexico MX	1.14K	8.78
13	Kenya KE	1.11K	20.04
14	Uganda UG	812	16.68
15	Burkina Faso BF	753	32.7
16	Cameroon CM	524	18.46
17	Myanmar MM	512	9.46
18	Rwanda RW	440	31.53
19	Italy IT	432	7.27
20	Iraq IQ	426	11.01
21	Vietnam VN	420	4.19
22	Nepal NP	415	13.97
23	Kazakhstan KZ	389	19.13
24	Malawi MW	384	18.18
25	Algeria DZ	372	8.05
26	Iran IR	369	4.07
27	Australia AU	348	13.14
28	Argentina AR	334	7.34
29	Colombia CO	326	6.22
30	DR Congo CD	325	3.07
31	Mozambique MZ	306	9.09
32	Spain ES	298	6.22
33	Venezuela VE	294	10.4
34	Peru PE	289	8.53
35	Angola AO	281	7.63
36	Morocco MA	268	7.09
37	Indonesia ID	266	0.95
38	Sri Lanka LK	265	11.52
39	Russia RU	245	1.68
40	Egypt EG	215	1.88
41	Yemen YE	214	5.44
42	Thailand TH	200	2.79
43	Saudi Arabia SA	198	5.95
44	Ghana GH	184	5.43
45	Guatemala GT	184	10.14
46	Philippines PH	167	1.46
47	United Arab Emirates AE	162	15.19
48	Syria SY	161	6.81
49	Honduras HN	158	14.85
50	Malaysia MY	143	4.07
51	El Salvador SV	125	19.81
52	Poland PL	119	3.08
53	Norway NO	117	21.17
54	United Kingdom GB	110	1.6
55	Dominican Republic DO	108	9.56
56	Senegal SN	98	5.4
57	Zimbabwe ZW	98	6.02
58	France FR	96	1.45
59	Haiti HT	92	7.89
60	Tunisia TN	91	7.44
61	Nicaragua NI	86	12.63
62	South Korea KR	86	1.67
63	Afghanistan AF	84	2.03
64	Ukraine UA	83	2.21
65	Jordan JO	80	6.99
66	Cambodia KH	77	4.4
67	Zambia ZM	75	3.61
68	South Africa ZA	74	1.16
69	Bolivia BO	73	6
70	Belgium BE	70	6.01
71	Sierra Leone SL	70	8.3
72	Chile CL	64	3.25
73	Germany DE	62	0.73
74	Costa Rica CR	59	11.58
75	Kyrgyzstan KG	58	8.21
76	Taiwan TW	56	2.4
77	Guinea GN	51	3.54
78	Tajikistan TJ	49	4.72
79	Mauritania MR	46	9.08
80	Netherlands NL	45	2.47
81	Libya LY	43	5.89
82	Paraguay PY	43	6.23
83	Finland FI	42	7.45
84	Portugal PT	42	4.06
85	Ivory Coast CI	41	1.31
86	Madagascar MG	41	1.32
87	Israel IL	38	4.07
88	Uzbekistan UZ	37	1.03
89	Greece GR	34	3.29
90	Lebanon LB	34	5.85
91	Ecuador EC	33	1.83
92	Canada CA	32	0.8
93	Romania RO	32	1.65
94	Oman OM	30	5.94
95	Qatar QA	29	9.68
96	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	28	8.74
97	Czech Republic CZ	28	2.6
98	Moldova MD	26	10.22
99	New Zealand NZ	25	4.86
100	Serbia RS	23	3.38
101	Djibouti DJ	22	18.91
102	Hungary HU	21	2.2
103	Kuwait KW	21	4.31
104	Panama PA	21	4.71
105	Denmark DK	20	3.33
106	Namibia NA	19	6.52
107	Turkmenistan TM	19	2.56
108	Albania AL	18	6.55
109	Azerbaijan AZ	18	1.78
110	Slovakia SK	17	3.13
111	Sweden SE	16	1.54
112	Switzerland CH	16	1.82
113	Austria AT	15	1.68
114	Estonia EE	14	10.46
115	Lithuania LT	14	4.91
116	Bulgaria BG	13	1.94
117	Congo CG	12	1.94
118	Trinidad and Tobago TT	12	8.1
119	Croatia HR	11	2.7
120	Liberia LR	11	2.04
121	Mauritius MU	11	8.62
122	Comoros KM	10	11.83
123	North Macedonia MK	10	5.54
124	Bahrain BH	9	5.72
125	Belarus BY	9	1.02
126	Timor-Leste TL	9	6.61
127	Uruguay UY	9	2.79
128	Armenia AM	8	2.84
129	Jamaica JM	8	2.76
130	Laos LA	8	1.1
131	Cape Verde CV	7	13.05
132	Ireland IE	7	1.31
133	Lesotho LS	7	2.91
134	Botswana BW	6	2.54
135	Hong Kong HK	6	0.84
136	Solomon Islands SB	6	7.32
137	Bhutan BT	5	6.18
138	Gambia GM	5	1.72
139	Guyana GY	5	6.58
140	Cyprus CY	4	2.75
141	Eswatini SZ	3	2.81
142	Guinea-Bissau GW	3	1.59
143	Montenegro ME	3	4.4
144	Papua New Guinea PG	3	0.32
145	Barbados BB	2	5.63
146	Belize BZ	2	3.73
147	Fiji FJ	2	1.78
148	Maldives MV	2	3.56
149	Georgia GE	1	0.28
150	Grenada GD	1	6.77
151	Latvia LV	1	0.72
152	Luxembourg LU	1	1.34
153	Macau MO	1	0.82
154	Malta MT	1	1.58
155	Mongolia MN	1	0.34
156	Saint Lucia LC	1	7.14
157	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	1	7.69
158	Sao Tome and Principe ST	1	3.49
159	Seychelles SC	1	5.75
160	Slovenia SI	1	0.7
161	Suriname SR	1	2.1
162	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0	2.54
163	Bahamas BS	0	0.53
164	French Polynesia PF	0	1.72
165	Gabon GA	0	0.18
166	Iceland IS	0	0.63
167	Kiribati KI	0	0.04
168	Marshall Islands MH	0	0.81
169	Nauru NR	0	7.62
170	New Caledonia NC	0	1.18
171	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	5.12
172	Samoa WS	0	0.01
173	Tonga TO	0	0.01
174	Tuvalu TV	0	0.01
175	Vanuatu VU	0	0.01

India Commands 37.2 Percent While Ethiopia Edges China for Second

The 2023 table is led by India at 22,137 thousand tonnes, with Ethiopia second at 2,909 and China third at 2,896. Nigeria and Brazil complete the top five at 2,727 and 2,661 thousand tonnes, respectively. India holds 37.2 percent of the 59,502-thousand-tonne listed total, and its supply is 7.61 times Ethiopia's.

The top three reporters accounted for 47.0 percent of the listed total, the top five 56.0 percent and the top ten 67.9 percent. The Ethiopia-China margin of 13 thousand tonnes is unusually thin for a second-place contest, and the per-capita contrast with the volume table is stark: Norway ranks fifth per person at 21.17 kilograms from only 117 thousand tonnes of listed supply.

A 0.7 Percent Annual Dip as Canada Falls 90.3 Percent

Among the 175 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply decreased from 59,896 thousand tonnes to 59,502 thousand tonnes, a decline of 394 thousand tonnes (0.7 percent). The two years share the same 175 reporters, with no reporter entering or leaving the comparison. India fell 991 thousand tonnes (down 4.3 percent), Canada fell 298 thousand tonnes (down 90.3 percent), the United States fell 279 thousand tonnes (down 17.1 percent) and Russia fell 254 thousand tonnes (down 50.9 percent), while Niger added 260 thousand tonnes (up 24.4 percent), China added 213 thousand tonnes (up 7.9 percent), Pakistan added 189 thousand tonnes (up 13.2 percent) and Nigeria added 183 thousand tonnes (up 7.2 percent).

Canada's drop from 330 to 32 thousand tonnes continues a longer collapse that the five-year window makes clearer. India's single-year decline alone exceeded the net change, so the modest headline figure conceals several large opposing moves.

Uganda and Kazakhstan More Than Double as the Five-Year Total Rises 10.3 Percent

For the 175 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply rose from 53,966 thousand tonnes to 59,502 thousand tonnes, a gain of 5,536 thousand tonnes (10.3 percent). The 2019 total includes 176 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 175; Cuba, with 208 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value. India added 1,626 thousand tonnes (up 7.9 percent), Ethiopia added 540 thousand tonnes (up 22.8 percent), Nigeria added 527 thousand tonnes (up 24.0 percent), Uganda added 442 thousand tonnes (up 119.5 percent), Niger added 325 thousand tonnes (up 32.5 percent), China added 292 thousand tonnes (up 11.2 percent) and Kazakhstan added 262 thousand tonnes (up 206.3 percent), while Canada fell 340 thousand tonnes (down 91.4 percent).

India contributes 29.4 percent of the five-year net increase, Ethiopia 9.8 percent and Nigeria 9.5 percent. Uganda's rise from 370 to 812 thousand tonnes and Kazakhstan's from 127 to 389 thousand tonnes are particularly large proportional increases, while Canada's fall from 372 to 32 thousand tonnes removes almost the entire 2019 value.

What Does the Pulses Food Supply Measure?

The numbers in this article come from the Pulses item in the FAO Food Balances, measured under the Food element as food available for human consumption during the reference year. The combined total should not be mistaken for an estimate of what people actually ate. Beans, peas and the other dried pulses summed here sit together in one aggregate, and each of those items is also covered in a separate article.

The per-capita measure converts the reported food supply into kilograms available per person during the year. It offers a population-adjusted view of the same item, which is why small reporters such as Norway and Djibouti can rank near the top per person while sitting far down the volume table.

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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	India	20.51K	14.77	20.05K	14.3	20.92K	14.8	23.13K	16.23	22.14K	15.39
2	Ethiopia	2.37K	20.47	2.68K	22.5	2.86K	23.39	2.84K	22.67	2.91K	22.6
3	China	2.6K	1.83	2.84K	1.99	2.8K	1.97	2.68K	1.88	2.9K	2.04
4	Nigeria	2.2K	10.5	2.4K	11.21	2.54K	11.64	2.54K	11.4	2.73K	11.97
5	Brazil	2.74K	13.21	2.82K	13.49	2.64K	12.59	2.66K	12.63	2.66K	12.6
6	Pakistan	1.42K	6.13	1.82K	7.73	1.57K	6.54	1.43K	5.86	1.62K	6.53
7	Bangladesh	1.33K	8.04	1.5K	9.02	1.57K	9.34	1.54K	9.1	1.5K	8.74
8	United States	1.16K	3.44	1.67K	4.92	1.09K	3.2	1.63K	4.76	1.35K	3.93
9	Niger	1K	43.62	952	40.15	1.29K	52.74	1.07K	42.13	1.33K	50.67
10	Tanzania	1.17K	19.73	1.05K	17.16	1.18K	18.75	1.15K	17.75	1.27K	19.12
11	Türkiye	1.03K	12.11	1.07K	12.41	1.01K	11.68	1.09K	12.5	1.19K	13.6
12	Mexico	1.22K	9.67	1.25K	9.85	1.24K	9.73	1.13K	8.77	1.14K	8.78
13	Kenya	944	18.43	939	17.99	999	18.76	1.28K	23.62	1.11K	20.04
14	Uganda	370	8.62	719	16.18	510	11.12	632	13.36	812	16.68
15	Burkina Faso	733	34.98	672	31.29	560	25.45	786	34.92	753	32.7
16	Cameroon	534	20.95	494	18.86	504	18.71	516	18.68	524	18.46
17	Myanmar	756	14.36	714	13.47	685	12.82	561	10.43	512	9.46
18	Rwanda	432	33.79	412	31.54	459	34.38	419	30.73	440	31.53
19	Italy	349	5.8	436	7.28	465	7.79	373	6.25	432	7.27
20	Iraq	234	6.61	225	6.24	282	7.63	532	14.08	426	11.01
21	Vietnam	304	3.13	309	3.15	357	3.61	404	4.06	420	4.19
22	Nepal	399	14.05	487	16.81	471	15.98	425	14.31	415	13.97
23	Kazakhstan	127	6.63	100	5.12	103	5.22	335	16.74	389	19.13
24	Malawi	321	16.86	352	18	332	16.54	346	16.83	384	18.18
25	Algeria	288	6.65	260	5.9	306	6.85	305	6.72	372	8.05
26	Iran	341	3.92	383	4.37	374	4.23	458	5.12	369	4.07
27	Australia	153	6.02	157	6.12	197	7.59	236	9.01	348	13.14
28	Argentina	264	5.86	330	7.3	517	11.4	428	9.42	334	7.34
29	Colombia	390	7.81	350	6.92	324	6.32	292	5.64	326	6.22
30	DR Congo	347	3.74	338	3.52	336	3.39	319	3.12	325	3.07
31	Mozambique	339	11.35	369	11.99	246	7.75	249	7.64	306	9.09
32	Spain	267	5.63	279	5.85	218	4.56	203	4.25	298	6.22
33	Venezuela	258	8.93	300	10.54	285	10.1	306	10.84	294	10.4
34	Peru	288	8.87	323	9.85	297	8.96	267	7.97	289	8.53
35	Angola	253	7.82	245	7.31	270	7.8	273	7.66	281	7.63
36	Morocco	262	7.24	266	7.27	274	7.42	232	6.22	268	7.09
37	Indonesia	243	0.89	272	0.99	299	1.08	219	0.78	266	0.95
38	Sri Lanka	256	11.42	251	11.11	248	10.93	203	8.87	265	11.52
39	Russia	306	2.09	361	2.47	403	2.76	499	3.43	245	1.68
40	Egypt	406	3.77	457	4.18	373	3.36	304	2.7	215	1.88
41	Yemen	132	3.76	183	5.07	217	5.84	212	5.55	214	5.44
42	Thailand	191	2.67	215	3.01	203	2.83	185	2.57	200	2.79
43	Saudi Arabia	189	6.19	187	6.02	173	5.52	173	5.38	198	5.95
44	Ghana	208	6.64	211	6.63	213	6.56	193	5.83	184	5.43
45	Guatemala	174	10.16	173	9.98	175	9.92	182	10.18	184	10.14
46	Philippines	161	1.46	173	1.54	180	1.59	186	1.63	167	1.46
47	United Arab Emirates	164	17.47	155	16.4	155	15.85	165	16.12	162	15.19
48	Syria	219	10.75	250	11.9	205	9.47	189	8.43	161	6.81
49	Honduras	121	12.17	133	13.15	129	12.54	132	12.65	158	14.85
50	Malaysia	88	2.64	91	2.69	132	3.84	133	3.82	143	4.07
51	El Salvador	110	17.67	120	19.33	114	18.23	112	17.79	125	19.81
52	Poland	43	1.11	58	1.51	65	1.7	134	3.48	119	3.08
53	Norway	66	12.42	85	15.84	113	20.85	111	20.26	117	21.17
54	United Kingdom	98	1.46	163	2.42	104	1.54	90	1.32	110	1.6
55	Dominican Republic	115	10.6	118	10.68	115	10.33	105	9.39	108	9.56
56	Senegal	91	5.56	127	7.59	133	7.71	90	5.1	98	5.4
57	Zimbabwe	64	4.19	93	6	99	6.25	102	6.37	98	6.02
58	France	88	1.35	91	1.38	95	1.43	89	1.34	96	1.45
59	Haiti	107	9.61	123	10.92	99	8.67	90	7.86	92	7.89
60	Tunisia	86	7.23	75	6.25	93	7.71	92	7.61	91	7.44
61	Nicaragua	94	14.45	105	15.99	115	17.24	115	17.16	86	12.63
62	South Korea	68	1.32	68	1.31	78	1.51	70	1.36	86	1.67
63	Afghanistan	69	1.82	101	2.58	110	2.75	98	2.41	84	2.03
64	Ukraine	93	2.06	63	1.4	125	2.83	58	1.41	83	2.21
65	Jordan	56	5.23	66	6.06	69	6.2	56	5.02	80	6.99
66	Cambodia	73	4.41	70	4.16	71	4.2	71	4.15	77	4.4
67	Zambia	24	1.29	33	1.72	78	4	107	5.31	75	3.61
68	South Africa	72	1.21	84	1.39	102	1.66	75	1.2	74	1.16
69	Bolivia	70	5.97	58	4.94	75	6.25	70	5.79	73	6
70	Belgium	46	3.98	64	5.52	62	5.36	73	6.26	70	6.01
71	Sierra Leone	70	9.04	68	8.54	70	8.64	70	8.43	70	8.3
72	Chile	69	3.62	134	6.93	59	3.02	44	2.23	64	3.25
73	Germany	46	0.55	60	0.72	66	0.79	62	0.74	62	0.73
74	Costa Rica	46	9.23	51	10.09	49	9.74	54	10.57	59	11.58
75	Kyrgyzstan	7	1.12	21	3.1	77	11.24	81	11.69	58	8.21
76	Taiwan	58	2.45	60	2.56	60	2.56	52	2.22	56	2.4
77	Guinea	50	3.84	52	3.89	52	3.77	51	3.63	51	3.54
78	Tajikistan	40	4.19	43	4.38	43	4.29	53	5.16	49	4.72
79	Mauritania	46	10.31	45	9.77	45	9.54	46	9.47	46	9.08
80	Netherlands	39	2.22	45	2.57	39	2.22	32	1.81	45	2.47
81	Libya	13	1.83	19	2.65	26	3.7	33	4.59	43	5.89
82	Paraguay	69	10.57	73	11	75	11.24	46	6.82	43	6.23
83	Finland	13	2.43	27	4.89	24	4.37	29	5.29	42	7.45
84	Portugal	40	3.85	41	3.97	32	3.08	36	3.44	42	4.06
85	Ivory Coast	44	1.56	43	1.48	40	1.36	43	1.4	41	1.31
86	Madagascar	52	1.84	57	1.95	42	1.42	53	1.74	41	1.32
87	Israel	40	4.61	36	4.06	42	4.65	42	4.61	38	4.07
88	Uzbekistan	18	0.55	18	0.54	36	1.06	34	0.96	37	1.03
89	Greece	34	3.13	32	2.98	37	3.54	43	4.11	34	3.29
90	Lebanon	35	6.07	44	7.69	48	8.45	34	5.98	34	5.85
91	Ecuador	39	2.23	40	2.27	39	2.22	35	1.96	33	1.83
92	Canada	372	9.85	292	7.65	296	7.69	330	8.5	32	0.8
93	Romania	28	1.45	33	1.73	34	1.79	40	2.07	32	1.65
94	Oman	24	5.14	30	6.55	30	6.63	27	5.66	30	5.94
95	Qatar	28	10.06	28	10.07	28	9.82	30	10.41	29	9.68
96	Bosnia and Herzegovina	21	6.23	22	6.66	25	7.84	19	5.82	28	8.74
97	Czech Republic	23	2.21	27	2.56	30	2.85	37	3.42	28	2.6
98	Moldova	14	5.49	20	7.62	21	8.31	19	7.47	26	10.22
99	New Zealand	15	3.1	17	3.41	15	2.88	15	3	25	4.86
100	Serbia	22	3.17	25	3.65	24	3.47	25	3.73	23	3.38
101	Djibouti	15	14.03	17	15	18	15.8	22	19.47	22	18.91
102	Hungary	30	3.06	20	2.03	24	2.48	21	2.16	21	2.2
103	Kuwait	25	5.63	24	5.53	22	5.12	20	4.28	21	4.31
104	Panama	14	3.22	28	6.5	21	4.83	23	5.32	21	4.71
105	Denmark	5	0.84	9	1.47	9	1.54	13	2.12	20	3.33
106	Namibia	21	7.9	22	8.08	20	7.23	20	6.87	19	6.52
107	Turkmenistan	18	2.69	19	2.72	20	2.86	20	2.8	19	2.56
108	Albania	16	5.4	17	5.98	15	5.42	17	5.88	18	6.55
109	Azerbaijan	6	0.57	9	0.89	19	1.89	23	2.25	18	1.78
110	Slovakia	9	1.62	9	1.71	8	1.45	24	4.33	17	3.13
111	Sweden	22	2.13	24	2.34	15	1.43	30	2.9	16	1.54
112	Switzerland	16	1.92	15	1.71	16	1.83	18	2.09	16	1.82
113	Austria	14	1.56	15	1.72	15	1.69	16	1.72	15	1.68
114	Estonia	7	5.5	5	3.67	6	4.41	9	6.66	14	10.46
115	Lithuania	7	2.46	5	1.88	8	2.77	12	4.26	14	4.91
116	Bulgaria	15	2.09	16	2.25	13	1.86	14	1.98	13	1.94
117	Congo	17	3.07	18	3.06	16	2.73	17	2.74	12	1.94
118	Trinidad and Tobago	13	8.81	12	8.16	11	7.63	11	7.31	12	8.1
119	Croatia	6	1.49	5	1.33	6	1.46	8	2.06	11	2.7
120	Liberia	5	1.02	6	1.22	6	1.2	5	0.97	11	2.04
121	Mauritius	12	9.41	14	10.54	11	8.56	12	9.12	11	8.62
122	Comoros	14	17.38	11	13.8	9	11.59	11	13	10	11.83
123	North Macedonia	10	5.39	11	5.64	11	6.1	10	5.69	10	5.54
124	Bahrain	9	5.93	9	6.03	10	6.33	13	8.8	9	5.72
125	Belarus	8	0.89	9	0.99	9	1.01	9	0.99	9	1.02
126	Timor-Leste	8	6.23	9	6.79	9	6.42	9	6.7	9	6.61
127	Uruguay	10	2.81	10	3.06	12	3.43	9	2.74	9	2.79
128	Armenia	7	2.48	9	3.28	9	3.02	10	3.49	8	2.84
129	Jamaica	9	3.05	8	2.66	8	2.76	8	2.66	8	2.76
130	Laos	4	0.58	6	0.86	7	0.89	7	0.94	8	1.1
131	Cape Verde	7	13.94	8	15.52	7	13.09	7	13.29	7	13.05
132	Ireland	12	2.38	9	1.86	6	1.17	7	1.35	7	1.31
133	Lesotho	6	2.86	6	2.53	9	4.19	8	3.43	7	2.91
134	Botswana	2	0.83	9	3.78	6	2.42	13	5.21	6	2.54
135	Hong Kong	7	1	8	1.03	6	0.86	6	0.82	6	0.84
136	Solomon Islands	6	8.13	6	7.81	6	7.81	6	7.42	6	7.32
137	Bhutan	4	4.84	5	6.46	4	5.8	5	6.65	5	6.18
138	Gambia	2	0.91	2	0.82	2	0.8	4	1.55	5	1.72
139	Guyana	6	7.75	6	7.47	7	8.05	6	6.79	5	6.58
140	Cyprus	3	2.59	4	2.93	3	2.58	4	2.94	4	2.75
141	Eswatini	3	2.7	4	2.99	4	3.22	3	2.67	3	2.81
142	Guinea-Bissau	3	1.62	4	1.89	4	1.84	4	1.69	3	1.59
143	Montenegro	3	4.7	3	4.39	3	4.43	3	4.43	3	4.4
144	Papua New Guinea	3	0.33	3	0.31	3	0.33	3	0.32	3	0.32
145	Barbados	2	5.81	2	6.67	2	5.72	2	6.14	2	5.63
146	Belize	2	5.55	2	5.37	2	5.24	2	4.56	2	3.73
147	Fiji	7	7.79	8	8.26	6	6.5	2	2.15	2	1.78
148	Maldives	2	3.23	2	4.7	2	3.1	2	2.93	2	3.56
149	Georgia	1	0.19	1	0.18	1	0.16	1	0.18	1	0.28
150	Grenada	0	3.53	0	3.7	1	6.3	1	6.71	1	6.77
151	Latvia	0	0.22	0	0.09	0	0.08	0	0.11	1	0.72
152	Luxembourg	1	1.5	1	1.91	1	1.49	1	1.98	1	1.34
153	Macau	0	0.54	0	0.72	0	0.68	0	0.69	1	0.82
154	Malta	1	1.39	1	1.49	1	1.44	1	1.47	1	1.58
155	Mongolia	1	0.38	1	0.37	1	0.38	1	0.42	1	0.34
156	Saint Lucia	1	5.97	1	6.16	1	5.76	1	7.31	1	7.14
157	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1	9.85	1	10.72	1	11.05	1	8.99	1	7.69
158	Sao Tome and Principe	1	4.48	1	4.35	1	4.1	1	2.42	1	3.49
159	Seychelles	1	5.59	1	7.65	1	5.27	1	5.91	1	5.75
160	Slovenia	2	1.18	2	0.95	2	0.9	2	0.83	1	0.7
161	Suriname	1	1.87	2	2.74	2	2.5	1	1.99	1	2.1
162	Antigua and Barbuda	0	3.05	0	1.65	0	2.58	0	2.66	0	2.54
163	Bahamas	0	0.36	0	0.8	0	0.28	0	0.4	0	0.53
164	French Polynesia	0	1.32	1	3.29	1	2.62	1	2.59	0	1.72
165	Gabon	0	0.2	0	0.19	0	0.19	0	0.19	0	0.18
166	Iceland	0	0.67	0	0.66	0	0.68	0	0.68	0	0.63
167	Kiribati	0	0.05	0	0.02	0	0.14	0	0.07	0	0.04
168	Marshall Islands	0	0.23	0	5.17	0	0.6	0	0.63	0	0.81
169	Nauru	0	8.69	0	8.6	0	7.01	0	7.92	0	7.62
170	New Caledonia	0	1.35	0	1.15	0	1.06	0	1.25	0	1.18
171	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	4.92	0	6.05	0	5.2	0	6.38	0	5.12
172	Samoa	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.01
173	Tonga	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.13	0	0.01
174	Tuvalu	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
175	Vanuatu	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.01
176	Cuba	208	18.6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Pulses Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, according to FAO Food Balances, India had the largest listed pulses food supply among the 175 reporters with reported values, at 22,137 thousand tonnes. Ethiopia ranked second at 2,909 thousand tonnes, while China ranked third at 2,896 thousand tonnes. Niger had the highest per-capita pulses food supply at 50.67 kilograms per person per year. These FAO Food Balances figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measurement of pulses 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 Pulses 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 176 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 are shown in thousand tonnes as reported, without additional rounding. The FAO dataset reports the Food element in thousand tonnes and food supply quantity in kilograms per capita per year. The listed total of 59,502 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 175 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value. This article covers the pulses aggregate; beans, peas and other pulses are treated in separate articles.