Sugar and Sweeteners Consumption by Country

India held 28,229 thousand tonnes of listed sugar and sweeteners food supply in 2023, 13.9 percent of a 203,445-thousand-tonne total, but lost 3,278 thousand tonnes over five years while Iraq rose 215.1 percent from a smaller base. The aggregate barely moved: up 0.7 percent between 2022 and 2023 and up 2.2 percent since 2019, as large increases and decreases cancelled each other out. The per-capita ranking is led by Luxembourg at 178.82 kilograms per person per year, far ahead of any large-volume reporter.

India leads at 28,229 thousand tonnes, only 1.31 times the United States at 21,624, with China third at 13,083 and Russia fourth at 9,678. Per capita the order belongs to small reporters: Luxembourg at 178.82 kilograms from 119 thousand tonnes, then Montenegro at 126.26 and Suriname at 123.35 kilograms. India, first by total, records 19.63 kilograms per person.

Sugar and Sweeteners Food Supply at a Glance

• India had the largest listed sugar and sweeteners food supply in 2023 at 28,229 thousand tonnes.
• The United States ranked second at 21,624 thousand tonnes, followed by China at 13,083 thousand tonnes.
• Luxembourg had the highest per-capita food supply at 178.82 kilograms per person per year.
• The listed total was 203,445 thousand tonnes across 176 reporters with reported values.
• Among 176 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed sugar and sweeteners food supply increased by 4,360 thousand tonnes, or 2.2 percent.
• The FAO Food element measures food available for human consumption and is not a direct measure of the amount actually eaten.

Key Takeaways

This aggregate combines the sweetening items included in the FAO Food Balances classification, principally refined sugar, non-centrifugal sugar and other sweeteners. The leadership is far more diffuse than in the crop aggregates: the leader holds only 13.9 percent and the top ten just over half of the listed total.

Because the aggregate hardly changed in either window, the five-year story is one of offsetting moves. India's 3,278-thousand-tonne decline alone would have shrunk the total by more than the net gain, and it was Iraq, Vietnam, Indonesia and Guatemala that carried the aggregate into positive territory. Between 2022 and 2023 the same pattern repeated on a smaller scale, with China and the United States falling while Pakistan, Russia and India rose.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	India IN	28.23K	19.63
2	United States US	21.62K	62.95
3	China CN	13.08K	9.2
4	Russia RU	9.68K	66.55
5	Brazil BR	8.21K	38.9
6	Indonesia ID	7.89K	28.05
7	Pakistan PK	6.94K	28.04
8	Mexico MX	5.45K	42.02
9	Thailand TH	3.79K	52.79
10	Germany DE	3.49K	41.23
11	Philippines PH	3.25K	28.3
12	United Kingdom GB	3.25K	47.3
13	Vietnam VN	2.97K	29.6
14	Iran IR	2.86K	31.61
15	South Korea KR	2.82K	54.48
16	Colombia CO	2.71K	51.87
17	Iraq IQ	2.62K	67.64
18	Ukraine UA	2.57K	68.19
19	Türkiye TR	2.52K	28.93
20	Egypt EG	2.44K	21.33
21	Italy IT	2.39K	40.12
22	France FR	2.26K	34.05
23	South Africa ZA	2.18K	34.4
24	Poland PL	2.16K	55.83
25	Canada CA	1.95K	49.71
26	Argentina AR	1.78K	39.06
27	Ecuador EC	1.75K	97.37
28	Bangladesh BD	1.71K	9.95
29	Nigeria NG	1.7K	7.45
30	Spain ES	1.58K	32.89
31	Malaysia MY	1.56K	44.4
32	Guatemala GT	1.5K	82.49
33	Morocco MA	1.47K	38.87
34	Algeria DZ	1.43K	31.07
35	Myanmar MM	1.35K	24.91
36	Kenya KE	1.18K	21.23
37	Ethiopia ET	1.16K	9
38	Saudi Arabia SA	1.15K	34.66
39	Australia AU	1.14K	43.17
40	Bolivia BO	1.06K	86.86
41	Venezuela VE	998	35.26
42	Yemen YE	988	25.08
43	Jordan JO	928	81.12
44	Chile CL	894	45.45
45	Netherlands NL	894	49.4
46	Sri Lanka LK	876	38.11
47	Taiwan TW	703	30.13
48	Uzbekistan UZ	703	19.72
49	Peru PE	698	20.61
50	Belgium BE	674	57.51
51	Cambodia KH	664	38.12
52	Tanzania TZ	636	9.55
53	Uganda UG	618	12.7
54	Honduras HN	612	57.51
55	Belarus BY	597	65.45
56	Hungary HU	579	59.75
57	Romania RO	576	30.13
58	Angola AO	539	14.66
59	Kazakhstan KZ	535	26.3
60	Ireland IE	513	98.78
61	Israel IL	511	55.25
62	Dominican Republic DO	505	44.53
63	Azerbaijan AZ	494	47.83
64	Sweden SE	482	45.71
65	Czech Republic CZ	460	42.54
66	Cameroon CM	456	16.06
67	Zimbabwe ZW	451	27.6
68	Afghanistan AF	440	10.6
69	Slovakia SK	438	79.41
70	Hong Kong HK	407	54.67
71	Ivory Coast CI	404	12.97
72	Greece GR	397	38.72
73	Lebanon LB	387	67.08
74	Kyrgyzstan KG	384	54.33
75	Ghana GH	373	11.03
76	Norway NO	362	65.58
77	Senegal SN	360	19.92
78	Austria AT	342	37.47
79	Nicaragua NI	341	50.02
80	DR Congo CD	336	3.18
81	Tunisia TN	336	27.57
82	United Arab Emirates AE	334	31.43
83	Bulgaria BG	329	48.45
84	Switzerland CH	327	36.9
85	Denmark DK	317	53.27
86	Syria SY	311	13.16
87	Mongolia MN	304	88.57
88	Libya LY	302	41.3
89	Guinea GN	294	20.43
90	Panama PA	292	65.57
91	Rwanda RW	291	20.86
92	Lithuania LT	290	101.44
93	New Zealand NZ	285	55.1
94	Finland FI	272	48.62
95	Costa Rica CR	264	51.69
96	Haiti HT	255	21.95
97	Portugal PT	243	23.33
98	Madagascar MG	241	7.71
99	Mozambique MZ	235	6.98
100	Croatia HR	227	58.26
101	Namibia NA	226	76.22
102	Nepal NP	222	7.48
103	Zambia ZM	221	10.69
104	Malawi MW	216	10.22
105	El Salvador SV	206	32.67
106	Burkina Faso BF	200	8.69
107	Botswana BW	194	78.41
108	Kuwait KW	189	39.05
109	Mauritania MR	189	37.59
110	Paraguay PY	184	26.85
111	Tajikistan TJ	177	17.04
112	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	171	53.72
113	Gambia GM	170	63.18
114	Armenia AM	169	57.33
115	Uruguay UY	156	46.08
116	Albania AL	151	53.65
117	Oman OM	147	29.16
118	Georgia GE	144	37.88
119	Jamaica JM	143	50.38
120	Niger NE	138	5.29
121	Turkmenistan TM	125	16.98
122	Luxembourg LU	119	178.82
123	Slovenia SI	119	56.31
124	Latvia LV	118	62.49
125	Sierra Leone SL	111	13.18
126	Estonia EE	110	80.28
127	North Macedonia MK	109	59.29
128	Fiji FJ	105	113.67
129	Laos LA	105	13.75
130	Qatar QA	105	35.12
131	Moldova MD	102	39.61
132	Papua New Guinea PG	100	9.61
133	Congo CG	94	15.21
134	Serbia RS	90	13.36
135	Cyprus CY	89	66.3
136	Bahrain BH	82	51.93
137	Montenegro ME	80	126.26
138	Suriname SR	78	123.35
139	Macau MO	65	90.37
140	Guyana GY	62	75.56
141	Lesotho LS	61	26.29
142	Eswatini SZ	59	48.26
143	Trinidad and Tobago TT	58	38.87
144	Gabon GA	57	22.85
145	Mauritius MU	51	39.75
146	Malta MT	45	83.59
147	Djibouti DJ	39	34.12
148	Iceland IS	38	97.2
149	Liberia LR	36	6.49
150	Bahamas BS	28	70.36
151	Timor-Leste TL	18	13.29
152	Cape Verde CV	17	31.85
153	Maldives MV	17	31.78
154	Belize BZ	16	40.01
155	Comoros KM	16	18.31
156	Bhutan BT	15	19.48
157	Guinea-Bissau GW	15	7.03
158	Barbados BB	14	50.73
159	New Caledonia NC	11	39.55
160	Solomon Islands SB	11	13.49
161	French Polynesia PF	10	37.35
162	Saint Lucia LC	9	49.71
163	Samoa WS	9	41.63
164	Seychelles SC	8	63.7
165	Kiribati KI	7	50.42
166	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	7	73.83
167	Sao Tome and Principe ST	7	31.21
168	Grenada GD	6	50.34
169	Micronesia FM	6	55.43
170	Vanuatu VU	6	18.49
171	Tonga TO	5	47.22
172	Antigua and Barbuda AG	4	47.98
173	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	4	74.91
174	Marshall Islands MH	3	69.74
175	Nauru NR	1	85.38
176	Tuvalu TV	1	61.8

India Leads a 203,445-Thousand-Tonne Table, yet Fell 10.4 Percent Over Five Years

The 2023 table is led by India at 28,229 thousand tonnes, with the United States second at 21,624 and China third at 13,083. Russia and Brazil complete the top five at 9,678 and 8,213 thousand tonnes, respectively. India holds 13.9 percent of the 203,445-thousand-tonne listed total.

The top three reporters accounted for 30.9 percent of the listed total, the top five 39.7 percent and the top ten 53.3 percent. India stood at 31,507 thousand tonnes in 2019, so the 2023 figure is 10.4 percent below its own starting point. Per capita, Luxembourg's 178.82 kilograms per person per year lead Montenegro at 126.26 kilograms, while China, third by total, records only 9.20 kilograms.

Opposing Moves Cancel Out in a 0.7 Percent Annual Rise

Among the 176 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply increased from 201,933 thousand tonnes to 203,445 thousand tonnes, a gain of 1,512 thousand tonnes (0.7 percent). The two years share the same 176 reporters, with no reporter entering or leaving the comparison. Pakistan added 966 thousand tonnes (up 16.2 percent), Russia added 594 thousand tonnes (up 6.5 percent), India added 397 thousand tonnes (up 1.4 percent) and the Philippines added 315 thousand tonnes (up 10.7 percent), while China fell 1,171 thousand tonnes (down 8.2 percent), the United States fell 922 thousand tonnes (down 4.1 percent), Germany fell 335 thousand tonnes (down 8.8 percent) and Vietnam fell 266 thousand tonnes (down 8.2 percent).

The gross movements on each side dwarf the net change: the two largest declines alone removed more than the reported gain added back through the increases. Read as offsetting shifts rather than as momentum, the 0.7 percent figure describes a year in which several major reporters shrank while others grew.

Iraq's 215 Percent Rise Helps Offset India's 3,278-Thousand-Tonne Fall

For the 176 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply rose from 199,085 thousand tonnes to 203,445 thousand tonnes, a gain of 4,360 thousand tonnes (2.2 percent). The 2019 total includes 177 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 176; Cuba, with 545 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value. Iraq added 1,785 thousand tonnes (up 215.1 percent), Vietnam added 911 thousand tonnes (up 44.2 percent), Indonesia added 819 thousand tonnes (up 11.6 percent), Guatemala added 680 thousand tonnes (up 83.4 percent) and China added 678 thousand tonnes (up 5.5 percent), while India fell 3,278 thousand tonnes (down 10.4 percent), Thailand fell 755 thousand tonnes (down 16.6 percent) and Brazil fell 665 thousand tonnes (down 7.5 percent).

India's decline equals 75.2 percent of the five-year net increase in absolute terms, so the aggregate grew despite India's fall because several other reporters recorded substantial increases, led by Iraq, Vietnam, Indonesia and Guatemala. Iraq's increase from 830 to 2,615 thousand tonnes is the largest proportional gain among the major increases highlighted here and the largest absolute increase among the reporters listed in this comparison.

What Does the Sugar and Sweeteners Food Supply Measure?

In the FAO Food Balances, the numbers in this article come from the Sugar and Sweeteners item measured under the Food element, which records food available for human consumption during the reference year. A combined item of this kind cannot be read as an estimate of what people actually ate. Refined sugar, non-centrifugal sugar and the other sweeteners summed here sit together in one total, while the raw sugar crops appear under a separate item and article.

The per-capita measure converts the reported food supply into kilograms available per person during the year. It provides a population-adjusted view of the same item, so countries with very different population sizes can be compared on a per-person basis.

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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	31.51K	22.68	27.52K	19.62	27.03K	19.11	27.83K	19.53	28.23K	19.63
2	United States	21.89K	64.81	21.58K	63.57	22.29K	65.54	22.55K	66.01	21.62K	62.95
3	China	12.41K	8.71	11.29K	7.91	12.99K	9.1	14.25K	10	13.08K	9.2
4	Russia	9.19K	62.68	8.95K	61.13	8.82K	60.49	9.08K	62.4	9.68K	66.55
5	Brazil	8.88K	42.8	7.85K	37.61	7.92K	37.8	8.13K	38.64	8.21K	38.9
6	Indonesia	7.07K	25.94	7.72K	28.08	7.56K	27.3	7.79K	27.94	7.89K	28.05
7	Pakistan	6.47K	28.03	6.33K	26.91	6.5K	27.12	5.98K	24.52	6.94K	28.04
8	Mexico	5.66K	45.03	5.43K	42.84	5.34K	41.86	5.19K	40.34	5.45K	42.02
9	Thailand	4.54K	63.48	4.46K	62.29	4.27K	59.57	3.73K	52.02	3.79K	52.79
10	Germany	3.65K	43.64	3.62K	43.27	3.81K	45.49	3.82K	45.45	3.49K	41.23
11	Philippines	2.91K	26.26	2.91K	25.95	2.64K	23.36	2.94K	25.76	3.25K	28.3
12	United Kingdom	2.68K	39.94	2.25K	33.44	2.54K	37.47	3K	43.97	3.25K	47.3
13	Vietnam	2.06K	21.19	2.72K	27.75	2.77K	27.99	3.24K	32.47	2.97K	29.6
14	Iran	2.88K	33.07	2.97K	33.83	2.75K	31.11	2.88K	32.21	2.86K	31.61
15	South Korea	2.59K	49.93	2.54K	48.95	2.54K	48.98	2.6K	50.27	2.82K	54.48
16	Colombia	2.9K	58	2.76K	54.58	2.81K	54.94	2.68K	51.75	2.71K	51.87
17	Iraq	830	23.48	825	22.83	861	23.32	2.57K	67.86	2.62K	67.64
18	Ukraine	2.84K	63.18	2.81K	62.88	2.76K	62.39	2.69K	65.53	2.57K	68.19
19	Türkiye	2.65K	31.05	2.42K	28.11	2.43K	28.04	2.49K	28.61	2.52K	28.93
20	Egypt	2.79K	25.92	2.55K	23.35	2.72K	24.54	2.46K	21.85	2.44K	21.33
21	Italy	2.03K	33.68	2.03K	33.89	2.07K	34.65	2.29K	38.36	2.39K	40.12
22	France	2.1K	31.93	2.22K	33.7	2.38K	35.95	2.53K	38.11	2.26K	34.05
23	South Africa	2.3K	38.61	2.36K	38.93	2.32K	37.79	2.21K	35.42	2.18K	34.4
24	Poland	1.68K	43.9	1.71K	44.91	1.87K	49.07	2.03K	52.9	2.16K	55.83
25	Canada	1.89K	49.95	1.92K	50.24	1.91K	49.76	1.9K	48.84	1.95K	49.71
26	Argentina	2.08K	46.26	2.14K	47.4	1.72K	37.99	1.65K	36.34	1.78K	39.06
27	Ecuador	1.31K	75.6	1.32K	75.04	1.41K	79.61	1.7K	95.13	1.75K	97.37
28	Bangladesh	1.68K	10.17	1.73K	10.43	1.75K	10.41	1.64K	9.68	1.71K	9.95
29	Nigeria	2.08K	9.94	1.8K	8.4	2.09K	9.57	1.75K	7.85	1.7K	7.45
30	Spain	1.52K	32.01	1.45K	30.45	1.47K	30.7	1.6K	33.5	1.58K	32.89
31	Malaysia	1.45K	43.36	1.46K	42.95	1.46K	42.65	1.45K	41.91	1.56K	44.4
32	Guatemala	815	47.63	961	55.35	994	56.47	1.48K	82.62	1.5K	82.49
33	Morocco	1.25K	34.44	1.27K	34.71	1.21K	32.59	1.24K	33.18	1.47K	38.87
34	Algeria	1.34K	31.01	1.38K	31.43	1.45K	32.31	1.4K	30.79	1.43K	31.07
35	Myanmar	1.47K	27.95	1.43K	27.02	1.4K	26.27	1.42K	26.45	1.35K	24.91
36	Kenya	1.12K	21.91	1.16K	22.2	1.23K	23.03	1.25K	23.05	1.18K	21.23
37	Ethiopia	743	6.42	896	7.54	1.01K	8.27	1.17K	9.31	1.16K	9
38	Saudi Arabia	1.15K	37.86	1.2K	38.55	1.11K	35.36	1.19K	37.04	1.15K	34.66
39	Australia	1.04K	40.75	1.05K	40.9	1.06K	40.8	1.16K	44.14	1.14K	43.17
40	Bolivia	1K	85.94	977	82.69	970	81.25	1.01K	83.2	1.06K	86.86
41	Venezuela	849	29.35	869	30.57	899	31.84	907	32.16	998	35.26
42	Yemen	1K	28.51	1.09K	30.25	906	24.4	884	23.13	988	25.08
43	Jordan	493	46.15	526	48.44	519	46.88	1.02K	90.25	928	81.12
44	Chile	781	40.7	858	44.3	923	47.46	928	47.48	894	45.45
45	Netherlands	811	46.24	785	44.53	775	43.68	853	47.63	894	49.4
46	Sri Lanka	641	28.62	773	34.26	742	32.69	687	30.09	876	38.11
47	Taiwan	711	30.05	681	28.76	651	27.61	662	28.28	703	30.13
48	Uzbekistan	656	19.91	693	20.62	713	20.81	792	22.67	703	19.72
49	Peru	729	22.46	735	22.39	677	20.42	687	20.51	698	20.61
50	Belgium	664	57.82	559	48.44	594	51.36	597	51.26	674	57.51
51	Cambodia	447	27.1	455	27.23	431	25.4	420	24.41	664	38.12
52	Tanzania	690	11.66	615	10.09	701	11.16	721	11.14	636	9.55
53	Uganda	662	15.4	633	14.23	630	13.71	705	14.89	618	12.7
54	Honduras	561	56.43	509	50.28	523	50.85	578	55.24	612	57.51
55	Belarus	428	45.33	451	48.27	531	57.39	563	61.33	597	65.45
56	Hungary	505	51.68	542	55.58	510	52.56	440	45.46	579	59.75
57	Romania	602	30.85	602	31.05	608	31.59	584	30.48	576	30.13
58	Angola	715	22.09	637	19.03	615	17.8	579	16.25	539	14.66
59	Kazakhstan	512	26.65	562	28.85	679	34.37	669	33.37	535	26.3
60	Ireland	396	80.2	435	87.33	441	87.64	445	87	513	98.78
61	Israel	429	49.55	443	50.34	433	48.41	465	51.05	511	55.25
62	Dominican Republic	485	44.5	471	42.75	502	45.12	522	46.46	505	44.53
63	Azerbaijan	546	53.97	564	55.4	599	58.56	542	52.66	494	47.83
64	Sweden	469	45.67	386	37.31	410	39.4	524	49.96	482	45.71
65	Czech Republic	446	42.24	383	36.3	414	39.36	466	43.65	460	42.54
66	Cameroon	266	10.44	302	11.54	262	9.73	393	14.21	456	16.06
67	Zimbabwe	382	24.99	337	21.71	407	25.75	416	25.88	451	27.6
68	Afghanistan	601	15.88	613	15.69	526	13.15	345	8.5	440	10.6
69	Slovakia	446	81.83	402	73.74	341	62.71	319	58.2	438	79.41
70	Hong Kong	384	51.31	356	47.54	349	46.59	395	52.92	407	54.67
71	Ivory Coast	300	10.65	306	10.59	364	12.27	392	12.9	404	12.97
72	Greece	354	33.01	389	36.36	409	38.66	427	41.06	397	38.72
73	Lebanon	396	68.37	423	74.24	447	78.24	440	76.68	387	67.08
74	Kyrgyzstan	282	43.41	271	40.72	292	42.79	341	49.03	384	54.33
75	Ghana	526	16.84	438	13.75	457	14.04	425	12.83	373	11.03
76	Norway	242	45.3	286	53.26	348	64.27	353	64.7	362	65.58
77	Senegal	306	18.69	284	16.9	326	18.96	332	18.79	360	19.92
78	Austria	363	40.83	332	37.21	334	37.2	341	37.64	342	37.47
79	Nicaragua	298	45.95	248	37.72	282	42.46	266	39.54	341	50.02
80	DR Congo	307	3.3	312	3.25	297	2.99	310	3.02	336	3.18
81	Tunisia	395	33.28	425	35.5	418	34.68	394	32.53	336	27.57
82	United Arab Emirates	356	37.92	131	13.84	140	14.3	291	28.42	334	31.43
83	Bulgaria	262	37.56	267	38.48	270	39.31	345	50.54	329	48.45
84	Switzerland	396	46.2	372	43.01	378	43.38	319	36.32	327	36.9
85	Denmark	314	53.98	324	55.52	318	54.22	331	56.05	317	53.27
86	Syria	577	28.33	475	22.59	582	26.89	435	19.35	311	13.16
87	Mongolia	234	72.54	235	71.32	264	78.95	278	82.01	304	88.57
88	Libya	320	46.06	301	42.74	276	38.62	280	38.78	302	41.3
89	Guinea	191	14.64	239	17.89	273	19.88	265	18.85	294	20.43
90	Panama	224	52.91	205	47.83	227	52.23	269	61.14	292	65.57
91	Rwanda	146	11.45	155	11.83	183	13.72	249	18.25	291	20.86
92	Lithuania	263	94.09	275	98.25	257	92.14	266	94.51	290	101.44
93	New Zealand	293	58.64	303	59.8	313	61.34	291	56.73	285	55.1
94	Finland	270	48.86	261	47.2	259	46.66	280	50.3	272	48.62
95	Costa Rica	251	50.27	238	47.29	234	46.15	258	50.68	264	51.69
96	Haiti	284	25.6	290	25.77	292	25.68	259	22.51	255	21.95
97	Portugal	359	34.74	347	33.42	236	22.71	293	28.13	243	23.33
98	Madagascar	230	8.16	280	9.66	288	9.7	239	7.85	241	7.71
99	Mozambique	333	11.14	329	10.69	299	9.41	223	6.83	235	6.98
100	Croatia	356	89.19	327	82.75	321	81.91	292	74.63	227	58.26
101	Namibia	144	54.4	147	53.72	167	59.43	179	61.89	226	76.22
102	Nepal	305	10.72	337	11.63	367	12.46	300	10.11	222	7.48
103	Zambia	200	10.81	283	14.87	215	10.96	259	12.85	221	10.69
104	Malawi	100	5.27	138	7.07	217	10.84	230	11.18	216	10.22
105	El Salvador	221	35.54	213	34.14	207	33.01	211	33.62	206	32.67
106	Burkina Faso	133	6.37	155	7.23	165	7.5	190	8.44	200	8.69
107	Botswana	129	55.27	125	52.84	137	57.21	131	53.56	194	78.41
108	Kuwait	176	39.52	157	35.78	145	33.35	183	39.95	189	39.05
109	Mauritania	178	39.91	185	40.28	204	43.11	212	43.56	189	37.59
110	Paraguay	155	23.87	140	21.16	138	20.71	160	23.73	184	26.85
111	Tajikistan	185	19.45	174	17.82	207	20.72	191	18.76	177	17.04
112	Bosnia and Herzegovina	137	41.06	138	41.8	163	50.15	183	57.24	171	53.72
113	Gambia	186	75.64	186	74.11	190	73.65	192	72.9	170	63.18
114	Armenia	162	55.91	141	48.64	138	48.04	144	50.09	169	57.33
115	Uruguay	174	51.27	170	50.02	164	48.35	170	50.07	156	46.08
116	Albania	121	42.09	119	41.3	136	47.68	150	52.99	151	53.65
117	Oman	161	34.99	150	33.26	112	24.81	138	29.19	147	29.16
118	Georgia	201	52.83	169	44.65	161	42.48	153	40.38	144	37.88
119	Jamaica	172	60.79	160	56.35	143	50.36	145	50.99	143	50.38
120	Niger	111	4.83	167	7.04	136	5.56	154	6.08	138	5.29
121	Turkmenistan	118	17.32	121	17.38	124	17.54	124	17.12	125	16.98
122	Luxembourg	96	154.88	99	156.84	104	161.77	107	164.35	119	178.82
123	Slovenia	93	44.6	86	40.79	95	45.01	108	51.25	119	56.31
124	Latvia	104	54.55	109	57.57	119	63.03	129	68.79	118	62.49
125	Sierra Leone	68	8.74	64	8.14	48	5.99	102	12.29	111	13.18
126	Estonia	74	55.53	88	66.55	103	77.15	114	84.13	110	80.28
127	North Macedonia	102	53.93	101	54.04	108	58.56	103	56.04	109	59.29
128	Fiji	117	128.13	140	153.18	133	145.29	100	109.03	105	113.67
129	Laos	178	24.66	205	27.91	262	35.09	105	13.85	105	13.75
130	Qatar	102	36.3	101	35.97	103	36.56	117	40.61	105	35.12
131	Moldova	114	43.69	107	41.83	111	43.95	113	44.62	102	39.61
132	Papua New Guinea	114	11.82	126	12.85	108	10.82	116	11.32	100	9.61
133	Congo	54	9.67	69	12.07	62	10.57	91	15.07	94	15.21
134	Serbia	126	18.05	121	17.53	94	13.79	94	13.89	90	13.36
135	Cyprus	67	52.36	73	55.91	84	63.44	87	65.62	89	66.3
136	Bahrain	79	53.37	80	53.67	91	60.32	86	55.92	82	51.93
137	Montenegro	74	121.3	68	111.31	70	115.5	71	114.83	80	126.26
138	Suriname	36	59.84	37	60.7	62	100.31	77	124.08	78	123.35
139	Macau	63	94.31	64	93.81	66	95.01	65	92.76	65	90.37
140	Guyana	38	46.97	37	45.6	54	66.53	63	76.62	62	75.56
141	Lesotho	67	30.23	54	24.27	72	31.64	58	25.23	61	26.29
142	Eswatini	54	45.44	62	51.58	57	47.38	62	51.19	59	48.26
143	Trinidad and Tobago	80	53.77	98	66.38	77	51.57	64	42.78	58	38.87
144	Gabon	52	22.73	37	15.82	56	23.66	43	17.65	57	22.85
145	Mauritius	59	46.05	57	44.07	54	42.38	52	40.38	51	39.75
146	Malta	45	89.34	38	73.38	46	86.92	44	83.77	45	83.59
147	Djibouti	47	43.42	49	43.89	53	46.84	42	36.67	39	34.12
148	Iceland	28	78.56	31	84.99	33	88.22	37	98.31	38	97.2
149	Liberia	44	8.74	45	8.72	49	9.23	38	7.06	36	6.49
150	Bahamas	22	54.84	20	50.78	19	47.96	25	62.95	28	70.36
151	Timor-Leste	36	27.38	37	27.85	43	31.86	47	34.52	18	13.29
152	Cape Verde	13	26.06	12	23.13	14	26.2	15	28.58	17	31.85
153	Maldives	17	34.27	15	30.05	17	32.55	17	32.44	17	31.78
154	Belize	17	42.84	16	40.94	16	39.75	16	39.12	16	40.01
155	Comoros	23	28.88	17	21.73	17	20.5	21	25.04	16	18.31
156	Bhutan	11	14.64	10	12.89	12	15.45	11	13.92	15	19.48
157	Guinea-Bissau	19	9.78	19	9.33	22	10.68	22	10.69	15	7.03
158	Barbados	18	62.89	17	58.83	20	70.82	15	53.46	14	50.73
159	New Caledonia	12	41.93	12	41.56	13	44.12	14	47.95	11	39.55
160	Solomon Islands	14	19.17	13	17.65	14	18.85	14	17.5	11	13.49
161	French Polynesia	11	39.17	12	42.6	13	45.45	13	45.49	10	37.35
162	Saint Lucia	10	58.45	10	55.13	11	62.06	14	79.29	9	49.71
163	Samoa	9	42.75	8	35.86	10	47.92	11	51.73	9	41.63
164	Seychelles	5	44.72	6	49.77	6	44.92	7	53.33	8	63.7
165	Kiribati	6	46.27	6	46.17	6	50.24	6	43.71	7	50.42
166	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	7	67.58	7	70.34	7	69.77	7	66.1	7	73.83
167	Sao Tome and Principe	7	34.37	7	32.01	9	42.02	8	35.82	7	31.21
168	Grenada	5	46.83	6	49.78	4	33.38	5	46.82	6	50.34
169	Micronesia	5	44.14	6	50.44	6	51.67	6	50	6	55.43
170	Vanuatu	4	15.28	4	13.61	5	16.3	5	15.84	6	18.49
171	Tonga	3	31.2	3	29.88	4	40.17	5	44.51	5	47.22
172	Antigua and Barbuda	5	51.11	5	52.98	4	44.46	4	46.11	4	47.98
173	Saint Kitts and Nevis	4	82.96	3	67.43	4	80.21	4	79.38	4	74.91
174	Marshall Islands	2	54.2	3	64.44	3	64.5	3	74.93	3	69.74
175	Nauru	1	89.45	1	90.6	1	88.75	1	84.63	1	85.38
176	Tuvalu	1	61.12	1	52.76	1	58.35	1	55.75	1	61.8
177	Cuba	545	48.61	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Sugar and Sweeteners Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, according to FAO Food Balances, India had the largest listed sugar and sweeteners food supply among the 176 reporters with reported values, at 28,229 thousand tonnes. The United States ranked second at 21,624 thousand tonnes, while China ranked third at 13,083 thousand tonnes. Luxembourg had the highest per-capita sugar and sweeteners food supply at 178.82 kilograms per person per year. These FAO Food Balances figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measurement of sugar and sweeteners 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 Sugar and Sweeteners 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 203,445 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 sugar and sweeteners aggregate; sugar crops and the individual sweetener items are treated in separate articles.