Stimulants Consumption by Country

China held 15,871 thousand tonnes of listed stimulants food supply in 2023, 31.8 percent of a 49,854-thousand-tonne total. The five-year increase of 45.3 percent warrants caution because the underlying data contain large step changes: Kenya rose from 9 to 1,940 thousand tonnes, India from 1,256 to 5,897 and Vietnam from 125 to 1,448, with most of each gain appearing as a step change in 2020. The single-year change of 1.7 percent, carried by China and Brazil, is the cleaner read on recent movement. Sri Lanka leads per person at 52.21 kilograms per person per year.

China leads at 15,871 thousand tonnes, 2.69 times India at 5,897, with the United States third at 2,443 and Brazil fourth at 2,033. Per capita the order is tea-country led: Sri Lanka at 52.21 kilograms from 1,199 thousand tonnes, then Hong Kong at 47.88 and Kenya at 35.05 kilograms. China, first by total, records 11.16 kilograms per person.

Stimulants Food Supply at a Glance

• China had the largest listed stimulants food supply in 2023 at 15,871 thousand tonnes.
• India ranked second at 5,897 thousand tonnes, followed by the United States at 2,443 thousand tonnes.
• Sri Lanka had the highest per-capita food supply at 52.21 kilograms per person per year.
• The listed total was 49,854 thousand tonnes across 176 reporters with reported values.
• Among 176 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed stimulants food supply increased by 15,546 thousand tonnes, or 45.3 percent, concentrated in step changes recorded in 2020.
• The FAO Food element measures food available for human consumption and is not a direct measure of the amount actually eaten.

Key Takeaways

The stimulants aggregate covers the coffee, cocoa and tea items in the FAO Food Balances classification. Its tea component uses the FBS lump figure, the same series that the separate tea article sets aside in favour of SUA packed-tea detail, so this aggregate inherits the lump series' coverage breaks.

Five reporters account for 82.8 percent of the five-year net gain, and four of the five show their largest single jump between 2019 and 2020 rather than a gradual climb. The year-to-year changes since then are modest by comparison, which is why the 2022-2023 window provides a clearer view of recent direction.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	China CN	15.87K	11.16
2	India IN	5.9K	4.1
3	United States US	2.44K	7.11
4	Brazil BR	2.03K	9.63
5	Türkiye TR	1.99K	22.79
6	Kenya KE	1.94K	35.05
7	Vietnam VN	1.45K	14.43
8	Argentina AR	1.41K	31
9	Sri Lanka LK	1.2K	52.21
10	Indonesia ID	1.16K	4.11
11	United Kingdom GB	698	10.16
12	France FR	628	9.45
13	Philippines PH	591	5.15
14	Germany DE	536	6.34
15	Russia RU	448	3.08
16	Italy IT	442	7.42
17	Bangladesh BD	418	2.44
18	Canada CA	373	9.5
19	Hong Kong HK	356	47.88
20	Spain ES	331	6.91
21	Ethiopia ET	330	2.56
22	Uganda UG	300	6.17
23	Ivory Coast CI	276	8.85
24	Pakistan PK	256	1.03
25	Saudi Arabia SA	255	7.67
26	Australia AU	244	9.22
27	Peru PE	241	7.12
28	Iran IR	226	2.49
29	Romania RO	212	11.11
30	Egypt EG	210	1.83
31	Myanmar MM	207	3.83
32	Malawi MW	202	9.58
33	Thailand TH	193	2.69
34	Laos LA	186	24.33
35	South Korea KR	182	3.52
36	Paraguay PY	162	23.61
37	Kazakhstan KZ	156	7.67
38	Rwanda RW	153	10.96
39	Ukraine UA	153	4.06
40	Guinea GN	150	10.41
41	Iraq IQ	150	3.89
42	Sweden SE	145	13.74
43	Greece GR	134	13.05
44	Morocco MA	132	3.5
45	Mexico MX	127	0.98
46	Algeria DZ	120	2.6
47	Colombia CO	119	2.27
48	Nepal NP	115	3.89
49	South Africa ZA	108	1.71
50	Tanzania TZ	106	1.59
51	Jordan JO	102	8.92
52	Poland PL	102	2.63
53	Ireland IE	101	19.5
54	Belgium BE	100	8.55
55	Uzbekistan UZ	99	2.78
56	Serbia RS	97	14.28
57	Portugal PT	96	9.24
58	Denmark DK	94	15.83
59	Bulgaria BG	93	13.64
60	Taiwan TW	93	3.99
61	Venezuela VE	92	3.27
62	New Zealand NZ	87	16.85
63	Lebanon LB	86	14.81
64	Chile CL	84	4.29
65	Guatemala GT	83	4.57
66	Libya LY	81	11.06
67	Norway NO	81	14.69
68	Netherlands NL	75	4.14
69	Finland FI	74	13.14
70	Israel IL	73	7.88
71	Switzerland CH	69	7.83
72	Papua New Guinea PG	68	6.56
73	Syria SY	65	2.74
74	Czech Republic CZ	64	5.89
75	Malaysia MY	64	1.82
76	Yemen YE	64	1.63
77	Austria AT	63	6.95
78	Georgia GE	63	16.45
79	Slovakia SK	63	11.41
80	DR Congo CD	62	0.58
81	Nigeria NG	58	0.25
82	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	56	17.68
83	Zimbabwe ZW	56	3.44
84	Dominican Republic DO	52	4.56
85	Azerbaijan AZ	51	4.98
86	Madagascar MG	50	1.61
87	Croatia HR	48	12.31
88	Honduras HN	48	4.53
89	Cameroon CM	47	1.64
90	Tunisia TN	46	3.76
91	Hungary HU	45	4.68
92	Kyrgyzstan KG	45	6.33
93	Kuwait KW	44	9.01
94	Bolivia BO	43	3.5
95	Lithuania LT	42	14.59
96	Uruguay UY	42	12.44
97	Cambodia KH	39	2.22
98	Costa Rica CR	37	7.27
99	Qatar QA	35	11.8
100	Oman OM	34	6.66
101	Armenia AM	33	11.14
102	Belarus BY	31	3.38
103	Latvia LV	30	15.86
104	Moldova MD	30	11.85
105	Slovenia SI	30	14.07
106	Senegal SN	29	1.6
107	Estonia EE	26	18.89
108	North Macedonia MK	24	13.32
109	Panama PA	24	5.34
110	Angola AO	23	0.63
111	El Salvador SV	21	3.26
112	Afghanistan AF	20	0.49
113	Cyprus CY	20	14.75
114	Mongolia MN	20	5.82
115	Mauritania MR	19	3.81
116	United Arab Emirates AE	19	1.77
117	Timor-Leste TL	18	12.79
118	Bahrain BH	17	10.86
119	Albania AL	16	5.61
120	Luxembourg LU	16	24.72
121	Burkina Faso BF	14	0.6
122	Ecuador EC	14	0.79
123	Macau MO	14	19.82
124	Mauritius MU	14	10.85
125	Tajikistan TJ	13	1.27
126	Maldives MV	12	23.3
127	Jamaica JM	10	3.6
128	Namibia NA	10	3.4
129	Solomon Islands SB	10	12.45
130	Fiji FJ	9	9.98
131	Guyana GY	9	11.28
132	Montenegro ME	9	13.64
133	Mozambique MZ	9	0.25
134	Niger NE	9	0.36
135	Turkmenistan TM	9	1.24
136	Haiti HT	8	0.68
137	Malta MT	8	15.66
138	Trinidad and Tobago TT	8	5.02
139	Botswana BW	7	2.64
140	Sierra Leone SL	7	0.84
141	Nicaragua NI	6	0.92
142	Congo CG	5	0.76
143	Iceland IS	5	13.76
144	Liberia LR	5	0.92
145	Barbados BB	4	14.03
146	French Polynesia PF	4	15.41
147	Gambia GM	4	1.33
148	New Caledonia NC	4	14.63
149	Suriname SR	4	6.54
150	Bahamas BS	3	8.12
151	Gabon GA	3	1.28
152	Zambia ZM	3	0.17
153	Antigua and Barbuda AG	2	17.29
154	Belize BZ	2	5.96
155	Cape Verde CV	2	4.02
156	Eswatini SZ	2	1.74
157	Ghana GH	2	0.06
158	Samoa WS	2	11.34
159	Vanuatu VU	2	5.64
160	Bhutan BT	1	1.82
161	Comoros KM	1	1.17
162	Djibouti DJ	1	0.84
163	Lesotho LS	1	0.49
164	Marshall Islands MH	1	24.31
165	Seychelles SC	1	10.56
166	Grenada GD	0	2.47
167	Guinea-Bissau GW	0	0.22
168	Kiribati KI	0	0.55
169	Micronesia FM	0	3.49
170	Nauru NR	0	1.88
171	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	1.04
172	Saint Lucia LC	0	1.71
173	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	0	3.89
174	Sao Tome and Principe ST	0	1.65
175	Tonga TO	0	2.97
176	Tuvalu TV	0	3.82

China Holds 31.8 Percent of a 49,854-Thousand-Tonne Table

The 2023 table is led by China at 15,871 thousand tonnes, with India second at 5,897 and the United States third at 2,443. Brazil and Türkiye complete the top five at 2,033 and 1,989 thousand tonnes, respectively. China holds 31.8 percent of the 49,854-thousand-tonne listed total.

The top three reporters accounted for 48.6 percent of the listed total, the top five 56.6 percent and the top ten 71.0 percent. Per capita, Sri Lanka's 52.21 kilograms per person per year lead Hong Kong at 47.88 kilograms, while the United States, third by total, records 7.11 kilograms.

China and Brazil Carry a 1.7 Percent Annual Rise

Among the 176 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply increased from 49,023 thousand tonnes to 49,854 thousand tonnes, a gain of 831 thousand tonnes (1.7 percent). The two years share the same 176 reporters, with no reporter entering or leaving the comparison. China added 924 thousand tonnes (up 6.2 percent), Brazil added 729 thousand tonnes (up 55.9 percent), Türkiye added 510 thousand tonnes (up 34.5 percent) and Hong Kong added 221 thousand tonnes (up 163.7 percent), while the United States fell 421 thousand tonnes (down 14.7 percent), Kenya fell 392 thousand tonnes (down 16.8 percent), Russia fell 227 thousand tonnes (down 33.6 percent) and India fell 226 thousand tonnes (down 3.7 percent).

Brazil's rise from 1,304 to 2,033 thousand tonnes (up 55.9 percent) and Hong Kong's from 135 to 356 (up 163.7 percent) are the fastest proportional gains among reporters adding more than 200 thousand tonnes. China's gain alone exceeds the net annual change, with the United States and Kenya offsetting part of it.

A 45.3 Percent Five-Year Rise Built on 2020 Step Changes

For the 176 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply rose from 34,308 thousand tonnes to 49,854 thousand tonnes, a gain of 15,546 thousand tonnes (45.3 percent). The 2019 total includes 177 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 176; Cuba, with 15 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value. India added 4,641 thousand tonnes (up 369.5 percent), China added 3,489 thousand tonnes (up 28.2 percent), Kenya added 1,931 thousand tonnes, Türkiye added 1,493 thousand tonnes (up 301.0 percent), Vietnam added 1,323 thousand tonnes, Brazil added 913 thousand tonnes (up 81.5 percent) and Indonesia added 592 thousand tonnes (up 105.0 percent), while Russia fell 418 thousand tonnes (down 48.3 percent).

India contributes 29.9 percent of the five-year net increase, China 22.4 percent and Kenya 12.4 percent. The year-by-year records show Kenya at 9 thousand tonnes in 2019 and 2,484 in 2020, India at 1,256 in 2019 and 5,592 in 2020, Vietnam at 125 in 2019 and 1,398 in 2020, and Türkiye at 496 in 2019 and 1,687 in 2020. The figures record the size of these steps, but they do not identify what caused them, and a 45.3 percent headline should not be read as measured growth in stimulants actually consumed.

What Does the Stimulants Food Supply Measure?

The numbers in this article come from the Stimulants item in the FAO Food Balances, measured under the Food element as food available for human consumption during the reference year. A combined stimulants total of this kind should not be read as an estimate of what people actually ate. The aggregate sums the coffee, cocoa and tea items as recorded in the Food Balances; the tea component uses the FBS lump figure, while the separate tea article uses SUA packed-tea detail instead.

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 stimulants look concentrated in populous countries by total but in tea-drinking reporters per person.

Stimulants Consumption by Country

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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	China	12.38K	8.7	13.08K	9.17	14.2K	9.96	14.95K	10.49	15.87K	11.16
2	India	1.26K	0.9	5.59K	3.99	5.98K	4.22	6.12K	4.3	5.9K	4.1
3	United States	2.63K	7.8	2.68K	7.89	2.75K	8.1	2.86K	8.39	2.44K	7.11
4	Brazil	1.12K	5.4	1.46K	7.01	1.21K	5.76	1.3K	6.2	2.03K	9.63
5	Türkiye	496	5.81	1.69K	19.59	1.69K	19.53	1.48K	16.99	1.99K	22.79
6	Kenya	9	0.17	2.48K	47.57	2.4K	45.09	2.33K	42.98	1.94K	35.05
7	Vietnam	125	1.28	1.4K	14.26	1.25K	12.61	1.37K	13.74	1.45K	14.43
8	Argentina	1.21K	26.97	1.27K	28.1	1.34K	29.63	1.38K	30.34	1.41K	31
9	Sri Lanka	1.33K	59.14	1.23K	54.36	1.52K	67.02	1.16K	50.78	1.2K	52.21
10	Indonesia	564	2.07	1.21K	4.42	1.14K	4.12	1.09K	3.9	1.16K	4.11
11	United Kingdom	581	8.65	675	10.03	538	7.95	741	10.86	698	10.16
12	France	688	10.47	677	10.27	699	10.57	673	10.15	628	9.45
13	Philippines	794	7.17	697	6.22	763	6.74	635	5.57	591	5.15
14	Germany	667	7.99	665	7.95	619	7.39	690	8.21	536	6.34
15	Russia	866	5.91	720	4.92	651	4.47	675	4.64	448	3.08
16	Italy	427	7.09	414	6.92	418	7	459	7.7	442	7.42
17	Bangladesh	96	0.58	400	2.4	406	2.42	440	2.6	418	2.44
18	Canada	367	9.72	371	9.73	384	9.99	399	10.29	373	9.5
19	Hong Kong	121	16.19	130	17.31	135	18.03	135	18.13	356	47.88
20	Spain	331	6.97	273	5.73	304	6.37	308	6.45	331	6.91
21	Ethiopia	225	1.95	330	2.77	229	1.88	224	1.78	330	2.56
22	Uganda	275	6.39	340	7.65	363	7.9	303	6.4	300	6.17
23	Ivory Coast	172	6.11	205	7.11	222	7.48	253	8.31	276	8.85
24	Pakistan	223	0.97	231	0.98	278	1.16	272	1.12	256	1.03
25	Saudi Arabia	278	9.13	316	10.19	308	9.82	274	8.52	255	7.67
26	Australia	241	9.44	239	9.3	235	9.04	269	10.27	244	9.22
27	Peru	205	6.31	223	6.81	265	8	196	5.86	241	7.12
28	Iran	249	2.86	231	2.64	239	2.71	255	2.85	226	2.49
29	Romania	150	7.68	160	8.24	166	8.61	205	10.69	212	11.11
30	Egypt	234	2.17	193	1.76	201	1.81	216	1.92	210	1.83
31	Myanmar	130	2.47	269	5.08	201	3.76	190	3.54	207	3.83
32	Malawi	10	0.55	206	10.53	229	11.44	218	10.59	202	9.58
33	Thailand	127	1.77	165	2.31	165	2.29	197	2.74	193	2.69
34	Laos	162	22.34	119	16.26	131	17.55	167	22.11	186	24.33
35	South Korea	154	2.98	159	3.07	173	3.34	188	3.63	182	3.52
36	Paraguay	130	20.02	121	18.33	116	17.33	211	31.26	162	23.61
37	Kazakhstan	140	7.28	123	6.34	111	5.64	141	7.04	156	7.67
38	Rwanda	4	0.29	140	10.74	151	11.27	151	11.03	153	10.96
39	Ukraine	95	2.11	190	4.25	189	4.27	189	4.6	153	4.06
40	Guinea	32	2.49	41	3.09	191	13.94	184	13.08	150	10.41
41	Iraq	75	2.14	120	3.33	114	3.09	132	3.49	150	3.89
42	Sweden	159	15.48	154	14.91	139	13.34	160	15.26	145	13.74
43	Greece	137	12.81	120	11.23	132	12.43	129	12.39	134	13.05
44	Morocco	140	3.87	123	3.36	135	3.66	156	4.17	132	3.5
45	Mexico	120	0.95	73	0.58	82	0.64	74	0.57	127	0.98
46	Algeria	171	3.94	177	4.02	210	4.69	112	2.45	120	2.6
47	Colombia	90	1.8	129	2.55	101	1.98	143	2.77	119	2.27
48	Nepal	18	0.63	109	3.77	109	3.7	113	3.8	115	3.89
49	South Africa	97	1.64	114	1.88	174	2.83	118	1.89	108	1.71
50	Tanzania	7	0.12	151	2.47	125	1.99	124	1.92	106	1.59
51	Jordan	111	10.43	114	10.48	115	10.4	85	7.53	102	8.92
52	Poland	119	3.11	132	3.47	121	3.19	103	2.68	102	2.63
53	Ireland	73	14.84	89	17.93	64	12.65	65	12.74	101	19.5
54	Belgium	77	6.71	70	6.08	76	6.6	107	9.19	100	8.55
55	Uzbekistan	63	1.91	71	2.12	75	2.19	78	2.23	99	2.78
56	Serbia	104	14.99	111	16.01	115	16.79	104	15.38	97	14.28
57	Portugal	94	9.05	81	7.82	83	8	88	8.45	96	9.24
58	Denmark	95	16.42	93	15.93	103	17.58	102	17.29	94	15.83
59	Bulgaria	80	11.47	81	11.64	93	13.59	87	12.81	93	13.64
60	Taiwan	69	2.9	94	3.97	98	4.14	95	4.05	93	3.99
61	Venezuela	83	2.87	83	2.92	93	3.28	94	3.33	92	3.27
62	New Zealand	77	15.35	84	16.58	94	18.44	87	16.91	87	16.85
63	Lebanon	90	15.45	83	14.56	89	15.51	73	12.69	86	14.81
64	Chile	79	4.09	82	4.21	92	4.75	96	4.92	84	4.29
65	Guatemala	36	2.11	83	4.8	44	2.51	79	4.4	83	4.57
66	Libya	46	6.68	47	6.68	64	8.99	62	8.57	81	11.06
67	Norway	80	14.97	88	16.28	85	15.65	81	14.94	81	14.69
68	Netherlands	127	7.27	111	6.29	121	6.81	137	7.67	75	4.14
69	Finland	101	18.34	85	15.44	72	13.08	79	14.13	74	13.14
70	Israel	91	10.52	84	9.52	88	9.79	105	11.56	73	7.88
71	Switzerland	88	10.29	70	8.12	71	8.2	75	8.55	69	7.83
72	Papua New Guinea	28	2.89	30	3.01	28	2.79	47	4.61	68	6.56
73	Syria	76	3.72	84	3.98	43	2	71	3.15	65	2.74
74	Czech Republic	55	5.22	55	5.23	53	5.03	57	5.31	64	5.89
75	Malaysia	30	0.91	31	0.9	29	0.84	41	1.17	64	1.82
76	Yemen	47	1.35	46	1.26	75	2.01	67	1.74	64	1.63
77	Austria	100	11.25	93	10.44	88	9.85	77	8.5	63	6.95
78	Georgia	49	12.91	48	12.59	53	14.02	66	17.36	63	16.45
79	Slovakia	61	11.27	60	11	76	13.88	80	14.69	63	11.41
80	DR Congo	6	0.06	47	0.49	50	0.5	54	0.53	62	0.58
81	Nigeria	27	0.13	33	0.16	40	0.19	48	0.22	58	0.25
82	Bosnia and Herzegovina	53	15.72	53	16.11	59	18.31	57	17.91	56	17.68
83	Zimbabwe	65	4.24	65	4.19	68	4.34	63	3.91	56	3.44
84	Dominican Republic	38	3.47	38	3.44	39	3.53	48	4.29	52	4.56
85	Azerbaijan	38	3.77	40	3.88	45	4.4	47	4.6	51	4.98
86	Madagascar	64	2.28	39	1.33	44	1.5	51	1.67	50	1.61
87	Croatia	48	12.07	48	12.07	48	12.13	48	12.22	48	12.31
88	Honduras	69	6.93	33	3.24	35	3.4	18	1.75	48	4.53
89	Cameroon	40	1.57	46	1.75	21	0.77	55	1.99	47	1.64
90	Tunisia	62	5.2	53	4.4	61	5.03	59	4.86	46	3.76
91	Hungary	46	4.74	45	4.65	47	4.86	46	4.77	45	4.68
92	Kyrgyzstan	24	3.67	24	3.67	24	3.54	35	5	45	6.33
93	Kuwait	57	12.86	58	13.13	22	5.07	45	9.74	44	9.01
94	Bolivia	44	3.78	44	3.76	44	3.69	44	3.61	43	3.5
95	Lithuania	44	15.59	45	16.09	51	18.38	49	17.34	42	14.59
96	Uruguay	47	13.93	52	15.25	53	15.48	50	14.74	42	12.44
97	Cambodia	7	0.4	8	0.51	12	0.69	14	0.79	39	2.22
98	Costa Rica	22	4.35	31	6.08	28	5.61	29	5.72	37	7.27
99	Qatar	36	12.98	38	13.53	37	12.99	42	14.45	35	11.8
100	Oman	32	7.05	41	9.14	37	8.32	33	6.92	34	6.66
101	Armenia	26	8.93	24	8.28	30	10.37	28	9.6	33	11.14
102	Belarus	73	7.75	80	8.59	77	8.3	114	12.42	31	3.38
103	Latvia	25	13.25	29	15.5	31	16.52	28	14.99	30	15.86
104	Moldova	26	10.13	27	10.64	30	12.08	29	11.46	30	11.85
105	Slovenia	28	13.29	29	13.81	30	14.33	29	13.77	30	14.07
106	Senegal	17	1.03	19	1.15	20	1.16	21	1.21	29	1.6
107	Estonia	26	19.93	26	19.3	28	20.82	27	20.01	26	18.89
108	North Macedonia	26	13.58	26	13.67	27	14.52	26	14.23	24	13.32
109	Panama	16	3.84	11	2.65	15	3.52	25	5.68	24	5.34
110	Angola	21	0.63	16	0.47	16	0.47	26	0.73	23	0.63
111	El Salvador	18	2.97	23	3.65	26	4.1	24	3.87	21	3.26
112	Afghanistan	78	2.06	17	0.42	12	0.3	19	0.48	20	0.49
113	Cyprus	21	15.98	18	13.67	21	16.16	16	12.2	20	14.75
114	Mongolia	28	8.64	28	8.65	35	10.41	59	17.35	20	5.82
115	Mauritania	21	4.75	17	3.64	21	4.34	18	3.61	19	3.81
116	United Arab Emirates	78	8.34	44	4.7	44	4.53	36	3.47	19	1.77
117	Timor-Leste	13	9.86	15	11.68	11	8.47	16	11.67	18	12.79
118	Bahrain	16	10.6	17	11.26	22	14.97	18	11.98	17	10.86
119	Albania	15	5.25	11	3.99	11	3.77	16	5.48	16	5.61
120	Luxembourg	18	29.11	15	24.52	20	30.94	19	29.05	16	24.72
121	Burkina Faso	15	0.7	11	0.5	15	0.66	14	0.62	14	0.6
122	Ecuador	5	0.27	4	0.24	5	0.29	14	0.79	14	0.79
123	Macau	14	20.49	12	18.26	13	18.15	13	17.95	14	19.82
124	Mauritius	8	6.3	8	6.23	12	9.2	15	11.8	14	10.85
125	Tajikistan	13	1.35	13	1.28	12	1.25	13	1.28	13	1.27
126	Maldives	12	24.07	10	20.23	14	27.2	13	24.63	12	23.3
127	Jamaica	9	3.16	8	2.66	10	3.4	9	3.17	10	3.6
128	Namibia	11	3.98	9	3.22	11	3.88	10	3.4	10	3.4
129	Solomon Islands	1	1.87	2	2.45	4	5.4	8	10.88	10	12.45
130	Fiji	3	3.23	27	29.71	18	19.22	11	12.46	9	9.98
131	Guyana	6	7.01	8	9.32	8	9.8	10	12.52	9	11.28
132	Montenegro	9	14.62	7	11.88	8	12.87	8	13.14	9	13.64
133	Mozambique	31	1.04	34	1.11	9	0.28	6	0.18	9	0.25
134	Niger	14	0.59	16	0.66	13	0.53	13	0.52	9	0.36
135	Turkmenistan	14	2.04	10	1.45	16	2.28	16	2.27	9	1.24
136	Haiti	32	2.84	22	1.99	7	0.65	8	0.71	8	0.68
137	Malta	8	15.25	9	17.21	9	17.48	9	16.66	8	15.66
138	Trinidad and Tobago	8	5.63	16	10.59	17	11.37	19	12.87	8	5.02
139	Botswana	6	2.59	8	3.32	9	3.57	7	3.06	7	2.64
140	Sierra Leone	3	0.39	3	0.34	3	0.4	8	0.95	7	0.84
141	Nicaragua	4	0.57	3	0.42	4	0.53	4	0.57	6	0.92
142	Congo	7	1.33	10	1.72	17	2.88	13	2.17	5	0.76
143	Iceland	5	14.54	5	14.93	6	17.12	5	14.07	5	13.76
144	Liberia	5	1.02	3	0.67	5	1.01	6	1.1	5	0.92
145	Barbados	3	10.72	3	10.2	3	9.77	4	12.69	4	14.03
146	French Polynesia	3	11.33	4	13.43	5	16.81	4	13.55	4	15.41
147	Gambia	7	2.77	5	2.02	4	1.56	4	1.34	4	1.33
148	New Caledonia	4	13.61	3	10.54	4	14	4	14.28	4	14.63
149	Suriname	3	5.59	4	7.08	5	7.47	5	7.59	4	6.54
150	Bahamas	2	4.19	1	3.35	1	3.38	3	7.31	3	8.12
151	Gabon	4	1.64	3	1.47	3	1.21	4	1.5	3	1.28
152	Zambia	7	0.35	8	0.43	5	0.24	4	0.22	3	0.17
153	Antigua and Barbuda	1	8.32	1	7.07	1	9.17	1	10.73	2	17.29
154	Belize	7	18.77	4	9.79	10	25.85	9	22.96	2	5.96
155	Cape Verde	2	4.75	2	3.82	2	3.48	2	3.95	2	4.02
156	Eswatini	1	1.11	2	1.3	2	1.46	2	1.8	2	1.74
157	Ghana	2	0.07	3	0.09	30	0.92	29	0.88	2	0.06
158	Samoa	4	17.58	3	13.95	4	19.36	3	15.3	2	11.34
159	Vanuatu	1	4.56	1	2.8	1	3.68	2	5.58	2	5.64
160	Bhutan	1	1.19	1	1.37	1	1.88	1	1.83	1	1.82
161	Comoros	0	0.6	0	0.51	1	0.88	1	1.36	1	1.17
162	Djibouti	5	4.54	3	2.4	1	1.13	2	1.34	1	0.84
163	Lesotho	2	0.9	3	1.26	4	1.88	4	1.54	1	0.49
164	Marshall Islands	1	15.76	1	19.19	1	21.03	1	21.84	1	24.31
165	Seychelles	1	7.6	1	8.32	1	8.53	1	9.85	1	10.56
166	Grenada	0	2.32	0	1.89	0	2.15	0	2.42	0	2.47
167	Guinea-Bissau	1	0.38	1	0.37	1	0.53	1	0.27	0	0.22
168	Kiribati	0	4	0	0.93	0	1.13	0	0.68	0	0.55
169	Micronesia	1	5.34	0	4.1	0	2.5	0	2	0	3.49
170	Nauru	0	1.32	0	2.5	0	2.34	0	13.63	0	1.88
171	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0.65	0	1.14	0	1.58	0	0.93	0	1.04
172	Saint Lucia	1	6.25	1	6.31	0	2.2	0	2.13	0	1.71
173	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1	8.06	0	4.38	1	6.29	1	5.36	0	3.89
174	Sao Tome and Principe	0	1.02	1	2.57	0	1.83	0	1.22	0	1.65
175	Tonga	0	0.51	0	1.77	0	1.59	0	1.35	0	2.97
176	Tuvalu	0	0.42	0	1.26	0	1.59	0	2.52	0	3.82
177	Cuba	15	1.38	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Stimulants Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, according to FAO Food Balances, China had the largest listed stimulants food supply among the 176 reporters with reported values, at 15,871 thousand tonnes. India ranked second at 5,897 thousand tonnes, while the United States ranked third at 2,443 thousand tonnes. Sri Lanka had the highest per-capita stimulants food supply at 52.21 kilograms per person per year. These FAO Food Balances figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measurement of stimulants 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 Stimulants 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 177 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 49,854 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 176 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value. This article covers the stimulants aggregate; coffee, cocoa and tea are treated in separate articles.