Snails, Fresh, Chilled, Frozen, Dried, Salted or in Brine, Except Sea Snails Consumption by Country

Morocco recorded the largest reported snail food supply in 2023, at 9,672 tonnes, accounting for about 35.1 percent of the listed total. Spain ranked second at 8,770 tonnes, followed by Portugal at 2,135 tonnes. Bosnia and Herzegovina recorded the highest reported supply per person, at 1.28 grams a day. The listed 2023 total was 27,564 tonnes, and 100 of the 114 country rows reported a value for that year, 75 of them above zero. The figures cover snails other than sea snails and measure food available for human consumption, not actual intake.

France placed fourth by volume at 1,538 tonnes, and the three leading countries together accounted for about 74.6 percent of the listed 2023 total.

• Spain recorded the largest decline by tonnage in the latest year.
• Taiwan lost more than four-fifths of its 2022 level.
• Morocco recorded the largest listed gain by volume.
• Italy lost close to a fifth of its 2022 level.

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#	Country	2023 (tonnes)2023	2023 (grams per person per day)2023
1	Morocco MA	9.67K	0.7
2	Spain ES	8.77K	0.5
3	Portugal PT	2.14K	0.56
4	France FR	1.54K	0.06
5	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	1.49K	1.28
6	Italy IT	807.25	0.04
7	Tunisia TN	793.12	0.18
8	Malaysia MY	436.07	0.03
9	United States US	350.6	0
10	Greece GR	288.72	0.08
11	Ivory Coast CI	263.6	0.02
12	Czech Republic CZ	199.65	0.05
13	Poland PL	110.4	0.01
14	China CN	101.27	0
15	Hong Kong HK	88.88	0.03
16	Germany DE	68.64	0
17	Ghana GH	64.81	0.01
18	Romania RO	61.07	0.01
19	United Kingdom GB	58.62	0
20	Canada CA	50	0
21	Taiwan TW	47.75	0.01
22	Belgium BE	41.94	0.01
23	Switzerland CH	20.68	0.01
24	Australia AU	17.81	0
25	Finland FI	11.91	0.01
26	Namibia NA	9.49	0.01
27	Peru PE	8.4	0
28	United Arab Emirates AE	7.28	0
29	Netherlands NL	6.48	0
30	Luxembourg LU	6.41	0.03
31	Sweden SE	5.25	0
32	Macau MO	3.82	0.01
33	Denmark DK	3.66	0
34	Laos LA	3.08	0
35	Saudi Arabia SA	2.88	0
36	Austria AT	2.75	0
37	Bahamas BS	2.57	0.02
38	Latvia LV	2.51	0
39	South Africa ZA	2.36	0
40	Ethiopia ET	2	0
41	Estonia EE	1.76	0
42	Cameroon CM	1.51	0
43	Russia RU	1.23	0
44	Angola AO	1.21	0
45	Botswana BW	1.21	0
46	New Zealand NZ	0.68	0
47	Iceland IS	0.67	0
48	Bahrain BH	0.54	0
49	Gabon GA	0.44	0
50	Maldives MV	0.36	0
51	Dominican Republic DO	0.33	0
52	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0.32	0.01
53	Slovenia SI	0.29	0
54	Iran IR	0.27	0
55	Lebanon LB	0.22	0
56	Mozambique MZ	0.19	0
57	Iraq IQ	0.17	0
58	Paraguay PY	0.17	0
59	Cyprus CY	0.14	0
60	Nepal NP	0.1	0
61	Madagascar MG	0.08	0
62	Guinea-Bissau GW	0.07	0
63	Kuwait KW	0.07	0
64	Liberia LR	0.07	0
65	Malta MT	0.06	0
66	Bangladesh BD	0.05	0
67	Zambia ZM	0.05	0
68	Eswatini SZ	0.04	0
69	Oman OM	0.04	0
70	Grenada GD	0.03	0
71	Armenia AM	0.02	0
72	Barbados BB	0.02	0
73	Marshall Islands MH	0.02	0
74	DR Congo CD	0.01	0
75	Mauritius MU	0.01	0
76	Brazil BR	0	0
77	Cambodia KH	0	0
78	Cape Verde CV	0	0
79	Chile CL	0	0
80	Croatia HR	0	0
81	Georgia GE	0	0
82	Guyana GY	0	0
83	Hungary HU	0	0
84	Kazakhstan KZ	0	0
85	Lesotho LS	0	0
86	Lithuania LT	0	0
87	Moldova MD	0	0
88	Myanmar MM	0	0
89	Norway NO	0	0
90	Papua New Guinea PG	0	0
91	Rwanda RW	0	0
92	Seychelles SC	0	0
93	Slovakia SK	0	0
94	Tanzania TZ	0	0
95	Thailand TH	0	0
96	Trinidad and Tobago TT	0	0
97	Türkiye TR	0	0
98	Uganda UG	0	0
99	Ukraine UA	0	0
100	Zimbabwe ZW	0	0

Spain's Snail Food Supply Falls

Spain lost 1,218 tonnes between 2022 and 2023, down 12.2 percent. Taiwan lost 236.75 tonnes, down 83.2 percent, to 47.75 tonnes, and Italy shed 193.75 tonnes, down 19.4 percent. Morocco added 1,784 tonnes, up 22.6 percent, France added 265 tonnes, and Bosnia and Herzegovina added 258 tonnes, up 21.0 percent. The 95 countries with a value in both years rose from 26,701 tonnes to 27,494 tonnes, up 793 tonnes, or 3.0 percent, with five countries joining the comparison, led by Romania at 61.07 tonnes.

How the Listed Total Changed from 2019 to 2023

Between 2019 and 2023, the 78 countries with a value in both years fell from 29,919 tonnes to 27,429 tonnes, down 2,490 tonnes, or 8.3 percent. China recorded the largest decline, losing 3,272 tonnes, down 97.0 percent. Spain shed 2,557 tonnes, down 22.6 percent, and Taiwan gave up 382.25 tonnes, down 88.9 percent. Morocco added 3,321 tonnes, up 52.3 percent, Bosnia and Herzegovina added 622.52 tonnes, and Greece added 235.24 tonnes. Twenty-two countries entered the comparison with 2023 values and no 2019 value, while twelve left it.

Snail Food Supply per Person

Bosnia and Herzegovina recorded 1.28 grams a day in 2023, ahead of Morocco at 0.70 grams in second and Portugal at 0.56 grams in third. Spain sat fourth at 0.50 grams. These figures express the quantity available for human consumption per person, not individual dietary intake.

What the Snail Data Measures

Snails for human consumption are recorded in tonnes and in grams per person per day for each reporting country over 2019-2023. Annual totals sum reporting countries only, and the listed total is not a world figure that includes regional aggregates. Total tonnage shows the scale of reported food supply, while grams per person per day adjust the figures for population size.

Twenty-five countries reported zero tonnes in 2023, including Slovakia, which fell from 84.71 tonnes in 2022, so that drop warrants a source check. A reported zero is a recorded value and a blank cell is missing data, so the fourteen rows without a 2023 value cannot be read as zero supply.

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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	Morocco	6.35K	0.48	6.61K	0.5	5.77K	0.43	7.89K	0.58	9.67K	0.7
2	Spain	11.33K	0.65	10.79K	0.62	11.69K	0.67	9.99K	0.57	8.77K	0.5
3	Portugal	2.29K	0.61	2.15K	0.57	1.84K	0.48	2.05K	0.54	2.14K	0.56
4	France	1.34K	0.06	1.26K	0.05	1.33K	0.05	1.27K	0.05	1.54K	0.06
5	Bosnia and Herzegovina	862.48	0.71	1.1K	0.91	1.28K	1.08	1.23K	1.05	1.49K	1.28
6	Italy	929.77	0.04	927.89	0.04	1.04K	0.05	1K	0.05	807.25	0.04
7	Tunisia	687.9	0.16	662.2	0.15	605.18	0.14	645.67	0.15	793.12	0.18
8	Malaysia	215.28	0.02	300.39	0.02	248.52	0.02	204.35	0.02	436.07	0.03
9	United States	316.76	0	278.86	0	300.34	0	311.33	0	350.6	0
10	Greece	53.48	0.01	262.97	0.07	220	0.06	213.59	0.06	288.72	0.08
11	Ivory Coast	264.13	0.03	274.96	0.03	225.53	0.02	247.33	0.02	263.6	0.02
12	Czech Republic	405.75	0.11	0	0	423.83	0.11	284.78	0.07	199.65	0.05
13	Poland	0	0	19.59	0	0	0	77.61	0.01	110.4	0.01
14	China	3.37K	0.01	1.32K	0	689.77	0	158.7	0	101.27	0
15	Hong Kong	273.22	0.1	126.48	0.05	294.81	0.11	127.73	0.05	88.88	0.03
16	Germany	24.97	0	27.73	0	24.12	0	103.65	0	68.64	0
17	Ghana	293.45	0.03	-	-	0	0	0	0	64.81	0.01
18	Romania	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	61.07	0.01
19	United Kingdom	-	-	-	-	64.87	0	107.52	0	58.62	0
20	Canada	0	0	49.91	0	118.78	0.01	67.84	0	50	0
21	Taiwan	430	0.05	448.57	0.05	300.76	0.03	284.5	0.03	47.75	0.01
22	Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0	42.01	0.01	41.94	0.01
23	Switzerland	16.71	0.01	27.23	0.01	20.78	0.01	19.09	0.01	20.68	0.01
24	Australia	0	0	22.32	0	25.16	0	36.33	0	17.81	0
25	Finland	12.54	0.01	11.23	0.01	12.78	0.01	5.65	0	11.91	0.01
26	Namibia	67.64	0.07	12.47	0.01	16.4	0.02	54.29	0.05	9.49	0.01
27	Peru	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8.4	0
28	United Arab Emirates	1.57	0	6.86	0	8.74	0	13.95	0	7.28	0
29	Netherlands	17.95	0	0	0	39.54	0.01	67.47	0.01	6.48	0
30	Luxembourg	8.77	0.04	15.71	0.07	9.24	0.04	9.88	0.04	6.41	0.03
31	Sweden	1.09	0	1.61	0	0	0	2.86	0	5.25	0
32	Macau	0.52	0	0.2	0	2.6	0.01	1.42	0.01	3.82	0.01
33	Denmark	2.13	0	0	0	0	0	4.88	0	3.66	0
34	Laos	-	-	0.23	0	0	0	0	0	3.08	0
35	Saudi Arabia	0.25	0	3.65	0	1.64	0	0.22	0	2.88	0
36	Austria	4.84	0	3.24	0	3.43	0	3.18	0	2.75	0
37	Bahamas	0.19	0	-	-	0	0	1.61	0.01	2.57	0.02
38	Latvia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.51	0
39	South Africa	0	0	7.09	0	20.67	0	43.81	0	2.36	0
40	Ethiopia	-	-	0	0	0.43	0	0	0	2	0
41	Estonia	1.13	0	1.83	0	0.67	0	1.84	0	1.76	0
42	Cameroon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.51	0
43	Russia	-	-	-	-	0.31	0	1.22	0	1.23	0
44	Angola	1.39	0	0.87	0	2.16	0	21.34	0	1.21	0
45	Botswana	0	0	0.06	0	0.03	0	0.13	0	1.21	0
46	New Zealand	0.04	0	0.14	0	0.96	0	0	0	0.68	0
47	Iceland	0.78	0.01	0.29	0	0.67	0	0.73	0.01	0.67	0
48	Bahrain	-	-	0.4	0	0.34	0	0.25	0	0.54	0
49	Gabon	0	0	0.6	0	0.87	0	0.47	0	0.44	0
50	Maldives	19.73	0.11	0.05	0	0.16	0	0.36	0	0.36	0
51	Dominican Republic	1.91	0	1.1	0	3.17	0	0	0	0.33	0
52	Antigua and Barbuda	0	0	0	0	0.14	0	0.46	0.01	0.32	0.01
53	Slovenia	0.2	0	0.04	0	0.47	0	0.12	0	0.29	0
54	Iran	-	-	0.06	0	0.2	0	0.09	0	0.27	0
55	Lebanon	11.68	0.01	0	0	0.34	0	0.08	0	0.22	0
56	Mozambique	0.1	0	0.25	0	0.24	0	0.69	0	0.19	0
57	Iraq	0.01	0	0.04	0	0.08	0	0.16	0	0.17	0
58	Paraguay	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.17	0
59	Cyprus	0.23	0	0	0	0.06	0	0	0	0.14	0
60	Nepal	0	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	0.1	0
61	Madagascar	0.19	0	0.09	0	0.21	0	0	0	0.08	0
62	Guinea-Bissau	0.06	0	0.08	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.07	0
63	Kuwait	0.1	0	0.1	0	0.06	0	0.08	0	0.07	0
64	Liberia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.07	0
65	Malta	0.16	0	0.14	0	0.07	0	0.06	0	0.06	0
66	Bangladesh	0.01	0	0	0	0.03	0	0.01	0	0.05	0
67	Zambia	0.2	0	2.97	0	2.5	0	0.35	0	0.05	0
68	Eswatini	0.07	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.2	0	0.04	0
69	Oman	0	0	0	0	0.37	0	2.57	0	0.04	0
70	Grenada	-	-	0.15	0	0.22	0.01	0.15	0	0.03	0
71	Armenia	0.24	0	2.02	0	0	0	0.13	0	0.02	0
72	Barbados	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0.02	0
73	Marshall Islands	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.02	0
74	DR Congo	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.01	0
75	Mauritius	0.1	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0.01	0
76	Brazil	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.01	0	0	0
77	Cambodia	0	0	2.51	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
78	Cape Verde	0	0	0	0	0.7	0	0	0	0	0
79	Chile	-	-	0	0	0.08	0	0.04	0	0	0
80	Croatia	-	-	2.14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
81	Georgia	0.33	0	8.7	0.01	23.84	0.02	0	0	0	0
82	Guyana	2.23	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
83	Hungary	282.12	0.08	19.2	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
84	Kazakhstan	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.06	0	0.13	0	0	0
85	Lesotho	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
86	Lithuania	0	0	0	0	104.68	0.1	0	0	0	0
87	Moldova	0.03	0	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
88	Myanmar	-	-	0	0	-	-	8.98	0	0	0
89	Norway	2.05	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
90	Papua New Guinea	-	-	-	-	0.18	0	0	0	0	0
91	Rwanda	-	-	11.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
92	Seychelles	-	-	-	-	0.06	0	0	0	0	0
93	Slovakia	0.26	0	0.35	0	91.33	0.05	84.71	0.04	0	0
94	Tanzania	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1	0	0	0
95	Thailand	-	-	-	-	156.27	0.01	0	0	0	0
96	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.04	0	0	0
97	Türkiye	8.01	0	0	0	20.72	0	9.3	0	0	0
98	Uganda	0.05	0	0.05	0	0.47	0	0	0	0	0
99	Ukraine	15.63	0	0.82	0	0.21	0	0.05	0	0	0
100	Zimbabwe	0	0	0.01	0	0.35	0	0	0	0	0
101	Costa Rica	0.12	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
102	Congo	0.09	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
103	Timor-Leste	-	-	-	-	0.07	0	-	-	-	-
104	Guatemala	0	0	0	0	0.03	0	-	-	-	-
105	Nicaragua	0	0	0.03	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
106	Azerbaijan	0	0	0.02	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
107	Mongolia	0.06	0	0.02	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
108	New Caledonia	0.02	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
109	Samoa	-	-	0.02	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
110	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	-	-	-	-
111	Fiji	0.02	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
112	French Polynesia	0.11	0	0.01	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
113	Sao Tome and Principe	0	0	0.06	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
114	Syria	0.6	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-

Methodology

The data come from FAOSTAT Supply Utilization Accounts, using element 5141 for food supply quantity in tonnes and element 665 for food supply quantity in grams per capita per day, for snails, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, except sea snails, over 2019-2023. Annual totals sum country records with reported values, excluding regional and aggregate records. Of the 114 country rows, 100 reported a value in 2023 and 75 of those were above zero. Comparisons between two years use only countries with values at both endpoints, which gives 95 countries for 2022-2023 and 78 for 2019-2023, and the country count and both totals come from that shared set. Percentage changes use the earlier year as the base and are not calculated when that base is zero. Reported zeros are kept as values, blank cells are treated as missing data, and values under 1,000 tonnes are shown to two decimal places.