Wheat Gluten Consumption by Country

Australia holds 24,837 tonnes of listed wheat gluten supply in 2023 — 22.5 percent of a 110,157-tonne total, only 1.11 times Türkiye at 22,279. Australia added 10,041 tonnes in the latest year, nearly four times the 2,605-tonne net increase, and 20,555 tonnes over five years for 47.0 percent of the net gain. Iceland tops per person at 6.67 grams a day from 944 tonnes.

Australia sits top at 24,837 tonnes, ahead of Türkiye at 22,279 and South Korea at 19,273, with India fourth at 18,698. Per person Iceland doubles most of the field at 6.67 grams a day, ahead of Australia at 2.57 and New Caledonia at 2.49. Türkiye, second by total, records 0.70 grams per person.

Reading This Tight Table

• Australia reported the largest 2023 supply at 24,837 tonnes.
• Türkiye ranked second at 22,279 tonnes, followed by South Korea at 19,273.
• Iceland recorded the highest per-person figure at 6.67 grams a day.
• The listed total was 110,157 tonnes across 55 reporters with values.
• Across 49 reporters present in both 2019 and 2023, supply grew 43,743 tonnes, or 66.2 percent.

A One-Tonne Gap at Eleven Percent

Wheat gluten reaches the table as food in a mid-sized universe of 60 reporters, with a tight top: the first two differ by about 11 percent, and the top five hold 84.0 percent of the listed total. Iceland's per-person lead comes from 944 tonnes, tenth by total.

Australia drove much of the rise in both windows, growing nearly six-fold over five years while Türkiye doubled. South Korea, Vietnam and India added sizable amounts over the five-year period, while Iran climbed from 238 to 2,313 tonnes. Finland and Israel fell in both windows.

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#	Country	2023 (tonnes)2023	2023 (grams per person per day)2023
1	Australia AU	24.84K	2.57
2	Türkiye TR	22.28K	0.7
3	South Korea KR	19.27K	1.02
4	India IN	18.7K	0.04
5	Vietnam VN	7.41K	0.2
6	Israel IL	5.97K	1.77
7	Finland FI	2.95K	1.44
8	Iran IR	2.31K	0.07
9	Latvia LV	1.1K	1.6
10	Iceland IS	943.79	6.67
11	Estonia EE	923.7	1.85
12	Syria SY	809.72	0.09
13	Cameroon CM	802.1	0.08
14	Morocco MA	494.42	0.04
15	New Caledonia NC	263.38	2.49
16	Qatar QA	225.43	0.21
17	Panama PA	222.07	0.14
18	Myanmar MM	138	0.01
19	Guinea GN	132	0.03
20	Algeria DZ	114.04	0.01
21	Tunisia TN	74.01	0.02
22	Moldova MD	41.4	0.04
23	Iraq IQ	27.7	0
24	Cambodia KH	26.07	0
25	Bangladesh BD	22.68	0
26	Macau MO	21.32	0.08
27	Libya LY	20.76	0.01
28	Congo CG	9.52	0
29	Bahrain BH	9.11	0.02
30	Bhutan BT	4.6	0.02
31	Solomon Islands SB	2	0.01
32	Antigua and Barbuda AG	1.6	0.05
33	Turkmenistan TM	1.45	0
34	Lesotho LS	1.03	0
35	DR Congo CD	0.94	0
36	Mozambique MZ	0.62	0
37	Yemen YE	0.15	0
38	Tanzania TZ	0.1	0
39	Micronesia FM	0.05	0
40	Slovakia SK	0.05	0
41	Ethiopia ET	0.03	0
42	China CN	0	0
43	French Polynesia PF	0	0
44	Grenada GD	0	0
45	Guinea-Bissau GW	0	0
46	Haiti HT	0	0
47	Liberia LR	0	0
48	Malawi MW	0	0
49	Marshall Islands MH	0	0
50	Mongolia MN	0	0
51	Niger NE	0	0
52	Rwanda RW	0	0
53	Sweden SE	0	0
54	Timor-Leste TL	0	0
55	Tonga TO	0	0

Australia and Türkiye Differ by 11 Percent

The 2023 table opens with Australia at 24,837 tonnes, Türkiye second at 22,279 and South Korea third at 19,273. India and Vietnam follow at 18,698 and 7,408 tonnes. Australia holds 22.5 percent of the 110,157-tonne listed total.

The top three reporters accounted for 60.3 percent of the listed total, the top five 84.0 percent and the top ten 96.0 percent. The gap between first and second is 2,558 tonnes, smaller than the supply of most top-ten reporters. Per capita, Iceland's 6.67 grams per person per day lead Australia at 2.57 grams.

Up 2.4 Percent in a Year on Australia's Gain

Across the 55 reporters with values in both 2022 and 2023, listed supply moved from 107,552 tonnes to 110,157 tonnes, up 2,605 tonnes or 2.4 percent. All 55 reporters with a 2022 value also have a 2023 value, so the year-to-year comparison uses the same reporter set. Australia added 10,041 tonnes (up 67.9 percent) and Morocco 131 (up 36.2 percent), while South Korea fell 2,271 tonnes (down 10.5 percent), Israel 1,456 (down 19.6 percent), Türkiye 1,385 (down 5.9 percent), Iran 957 (down 29.3 percent), Vietnam 790 (down 9.6 percent) and Finland 751 (down 20.3 percent).

Australia's gain of 10,041 tonnes against a net increase of 2,605 means the remaining reporters removed most of it, with South Korea, Israel, Türkiye, Iran, Vietnam and Finland falling a combined 7,610 tonnes. Australia's 2023 value of 24,837 tonnes stands well above its 2019 level of 4,282.

Five Years Up 66.2 Percent as Australia Grows Near Six-Fold

For the 49 reporters with values in both 2019 and 2023, listed supply rose from 66,052 tonnes to 109,795 tonnes, up 43,743 tonnes or 66.2 percent. The 2019 universe holds 52 reporters with values against 55 in 2023; three reporters with 2019 zero values have no 2023 value, while six reporters with a combined 362 tonnes entered. Australia added 20,555 tonnes, Türkiye 11,211 (up 101.3 percent), Vietnam 3,991 (up 116.8 percent), South Korea 3,988 (up 26.1 percent), India 2,470 (up 15.2 percent) and Iran 2,075 from 238 tonnes, while Finland fell 822 (down 21.8 percent) and Israel 642 (down 9.7 percent).

Australia contributes 47.0 percent of the five-year net increase and Türkiye 25.6 percent, so the two together account for 72.6 percent. Australia's rise from 4,282 to 24,837 tonnes is a 5.80-fold increase, and Türkiye's from 11,068 to 22,279 just over doubled.

What Counts as Wheat Gluten Supply?

Counted here is the Wheat gluten item in the FAO Supply Utilization Accounts, as food available for human consumption during the reference year. A total of this kind is not an estimate of what people actually ate.

The per-capita measure converts the reported food supply into grams available per person during the day. It offers a population-adjusted view of the same item, and here the two views split: Australia leads by total while Iceland leads per person.

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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	Australia	4.28K	0.46	9.09K	0.97	8.48K	0.9	14.8K	1.55	24.84K	2.57
2	Türkiye	11.07K	0.36	19.49K	0.62	19.86K	0.63	23.66K	0.74	22.28K	0.7
3	South Korea	15.29K	0.81	17.14K	0.91	18.45K	0.97	21.54K	1.14	19.27K	1.02
4	India	16.23K	0.03	17.46K	0.03	16.81K	0.03	18.73K	0.04	18.7K	0.04
5	Vietnam	3.42K	0.1	3.68K	0.1	4.95K	0.14	8.2K	0.23	7.41K	0.2
6	Israel	6.61K	2.09	5.75K	1.79	7.46K	2.28	7.43K	2.23	5.97K	1.77
7	Finland	3.77K	1.87	4.57K	2.26	3.7K	1.83	3.7K	1.82	2.95K	1.44
8	Iran	238.1	0.01	571.86	0.02	636.99	0.02	3.27K	0.1	2.31K	0.07
9	Latvia	494.94	0.71	545.83	0.79	933.02	1.36	981.94	1.43	1.1K	1.6
10	Iceland	912.62	6.93	919.88	6.87	859.92	6.32	1.07K	7.71	943.79	6.67
11	Estonia	644.91	1.33	771.13	1.59	1.13K	2.32	1.02K	2.07	923.7	1.85
12	Syria	731.95	0.1	634.63	0.08	703.51	0.09	726.17	0.09	809.72	0.09
13	Cameroon	175.51	0.02	365.67	0.04	393.99	0.04	882.19	0.09	802.1	0.08
14	Morocco	218.89	0.02	234.27	0.02	198.6	0.01	363.09	0.03	494.42	0.04
15	New Caledonia	229.91	2.22	201.17	1.94	219.27	2.11	218.64	2.09	263.38	2.49
16	Qatar	305.21	0.3	331.53	0.32	204.99	0.2	291	0.28	225.43	0.21
17	Panama	-	-	260	0.17	265	0.17	281.56	0.18	222.07	0.14
18	Myanmar	-	-	238.55	0.01	283	0.01	121	0.01	138	0.01
19	Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	0	132	0.03
20	Algeria	55.31	0	78.71	0	67.02	0	46.06	0	114.04	0.01
21	Tunisia	9.25	0	40.28	0.01	36.96	0.01	29	0.01	74.01	0.02
22	Moldova	39.08	0.04	20.16	0.02	23.85	0.03	64.9	0.07	41.4	0.04
23	Iraq	1.49	0	12.26	0	9.45	0	21.64	0	27.7	0
24	Cambodia	10.59	0	0.3	0	21.89	0	3.97	0	26.07	0
25	Bangladesh	235.63	0	153.09	0	146.61	0	2.2	0	22.68	0
26	Macau	6.76	0.03	16.21	0.07	16.95	0.07	16.73	0.07	21.32	0.08
27	Libya	3.12	0	182.32	0.07	1.71	0	4.87	0	20.76	0.01
28	Congo	3.65	0	3.11	0	2.87	0	10.32	0	9.52	0
29	Bahrain	19.99	0.04	30.6	0.06	5.27	0.01	21.58	0.04	9.11	0.02
30	Bhutan	3.08	0.01	3.2	0.01	0.62	0	6.07	0.02	4.6	0.02
31	Solomon Islands	0.3	0	4.05	0.01	1	0	1.01	0	2	0.01
32	Antigua and Barbuda	2.11	0.06	0	0	4.47	0.13	2.42	0.07	1.6	0.05
33	Turkmenistan	-	-	-	-	0.18	0	0.07	0	1.45	0
34	Lesotho	29.47	0.04	0.36	0	1.99	0	0.59	0	1.03	0
35	DR Congo	65.34	0	10.84	0	75.24	0	0.22	0	0.94	0
36	Mozambique	0.07	0	24.46	0	36.71	0	1.47	0	0.62	0
37	Yemen	0	0	0	0	2.8	0	0	0	0.15	0
38	Tanzania	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.03	0	0.1	0
39	Micronesia	0.01	0	-	-	0.02	0	0	0	0.05	0
40	Slovakia	0.05	0	0.03	0	0.05	0	0.05	0	0.05	0
41	Ethiopia	2.99	0	0.02	0	0.11	0	0	0	0.03	0
42	China	411.59	0	10.56K	0.02	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	French Polynesia	0.02	0	0.11	0	0.09	0	0.31	0	0	0
44	Grenada	4.68	0.11	2.2	0.05	0	0	6.39	0.15	0	0
45	Guinea-Bissau	-	-	-	-	100	0.13	0	0	0	0
46	Haiti	0.23	0	0.53	0	0.01	0	0.09	0	0	0
47	Liberia	2	0	-	-	-	-	0.1	0	0	0
48	Malawi	0	0	10.74	0	0.48	0	1.77	0	0	0
49	Marshall Islands	0.08	0.01	-	-	0.49	0.03	0.05	0	0	0
50	Mongolia	-	-	0	0	3.06	0	0.06	0	0	0
51	Niger	0	0	6	0	0	0	0.12	0	0	0
52	Rwanda	0	0	2.63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
53	Sweden	534.22	0.14	19.66	0.01	118.77	0.03	10.05	0	0	0
54	Timor-Leste	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.21	0	0	0
55	Tonga	0.19	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	0	0
56	Gambia	0	0	0	0	7.4K	7.87	-	-	-	-
57	Djibouti	0	0	0.17	0	441.41	1.08	-	-	-	-
58	Maldives	0	0	4.29	0.02	-	-	-	-	-	-
59	Sao Tome and Principe	-	-	0.06	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
60	Laos	-	-	0.61	0	0	0	-	-	-	-

Wheat Gluten Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

Australia recorded the largest 2023 listed wheat gluten supply at 24,837 tonnes — 22.5 percent of a 110,157-tonne listed total across 55 reporters. Türkiye followed at 22,279 and South Korea at 19,273 tonnes, while Iceland had the highest per-capita figure at 6.67 grams per person per day. These figures measure food available for human consumption, not the amount actually eaten.

Methodology

Year-to-year comparisons use reporters present in both endpoint years, with the earlier year as the percentage base. Totals are FAO Supply Utilization Accounts food supply quantity (element 5141, tonnes); per-capita figures are element 665 in grams per capita per day — both for wheat gluten, 2019 through 2023. The elements count supply made available for human consumption over the reference period. A displayed zero means zero and a blank cell means no value was reported, and no percentage is shown where the base-year value is zero.

This item covers 60 reporters in total, reporters only: World, regional and China (aggregate) rows are left out entirely, so China here means the China reporter. The 110,157-tonne listed total adds the 55 reporters with a 2023 value, in tonnes exactly as FAO reports them, without extra rounding. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT Supply Utilization Accounts, Wheat gluten, food supply quantity (tonnes; g/capita/day), 2019-2023. Compiled by StatsGeo.