Countries by food supply (calories per person)

Ireland had the highest food supply (calories per person) of 170 countries in 2016, at 3,814.63 kcal per person per day. Yemen had the lowest, at 1,832.72 kcal per person per day. The median was 2,878.5 kcal per person per day and the figure for the World was 2,895.45 kcal per person per day. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest3,814.63Ireland

Lowest1,832.72Yemen

Median2,878.5170 countries

World2,895.45History

Map of countries, 2016

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kcal per person per day, 2016. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Food Balances: Food Balances (2010-) (FBS): Grand Total, food supply, kcal/capita/day (item 2901, element 664). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2016

kcal per person per day. Source: FAOSTAT, Food Balances: Food Balances (2010-) (FBS): Grand Total, food supply, kcal/capita/day (item 2901, element 664). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2016 kcal per person per day	Change on 2015
1	Ireland Estimated	3,814.63	+1.4%
2	Belgium Estimated	3,775.53	-0.8%
3	United States Estimated	3,754.29	+0.5%
4	Austria Estimated	3,721.98	-0.3%
5	Israel Estimated	3,704.86	+1.2%
6	Denmark Estimated	3,670.16	-0.8%
7	Türkiye Estimated	3,651.66	-1.3%
8	Romania Estimated	3,580.34	+1.2%
9	Iceland Estimated	3,578.9	+3.1%
10	Canada Estimated	3,573.24	+2%
11	Germany Estimated	3,564.59	-0.7%
12	Italy Estimated	3,522.03	0%
13	Saudi Arabia Estimated	3,521.66	+0.7%
14	Australia Estimated	3,517.43	+0.5%
15	Serbia Estimated	3,492.81	-0%
16	Cuba Estimated	3,475.65	+3.4%
17	Montenegro Estimated	3,466.05	+2.1%
18	Malta Estimated	3,460.47	-1.1%
19	France Estimated	3,450.05	+1.2%
20	Kuwait Estimated	3,447.78	-2.7%
21	Poland Estimated	3,438.75	+2.4%
22	Norway Estimated	3,418.19	-1.2%
23	Morocco Estimated	3,414.41	+1%
24	Algeria Estimated	3,413.27	+0.9%
25	Portugal Estimated	3,402.18	-1.8%
26	Lithuania Estimated	3,395.92	+0.4%
27	Russia Estimated	3,389.48	-0.7%
28	Switzerland Estimated	3,382.64	-1.1%
29	Tunisia Estimated	3,380.67	-0.2%
30	Luxembourg Estimated	3,355.51	-0.6%
31	United Kingdom Estimated	3,345.3	-0.6%
32	Albania Estimated	3,345.03	+1%
33	Greece Estimated	3,344.94	-1.7%
34	Bosnia and Herzegovina Estimated	3,327.73	+1.1%
35	South Korea Estimated	3,325.36	-0%
36	Belarus Estimated	3,295.96	-0.2%
37	Spain Estimated	3,280.58	+2.4%
38	Brazil Estimated	3,280.27	-0.6%
39	Finland Estimated	3,269.8	+0.9%
40	Uzbekistan Estimated	3,262.88	+0.5%
41	Czechia Estimated	3,258.33	+4%
42	Netherlands Estimated	3,241.82	-0.6%
43	Slovenia Estimated	3,227.73	-0.1%
44	China Estimated	3,227.27	-0.3%
45	North Macedonia Estimated	3,226.11	+1.7%
46	Sweden Estimated	3,223.11	-0.2%
47	Latvia Estimated	3,222.04	+0.3%
48	Croatia Estimated	3,211.42	+3.8%
49	Hungary Estimated	3,201.08	+0.8%
50	Mexico Estimated	3,199.79	+0.9%
51	Uruguay Estimated	3,198.9	+0.7%
52	United Arab Emirates Estimated	3,160.55	-3.6%
53	New Zealand Estimated	3,154.13	-1.3%
54	Argentina Estimated	3,150.8	-1.8%
55	Laos Estimated	3,148.77	-0.9%
56	Macao Estimated	3,143.07	-0.6%
57	Egypt Estimated	3,138.96	-0.2%
58	Armenia Estimated	3,126.97	-1.3%
59	Hong Kong Estimated	3,105.71	+1.2%
60	Estonia Estimated	3,104.23	-0.8%
61	Kiribati Estimated	3,096.93	-0.4%
62	Colombia Estimated	3,090.76	+0.5%
63	Paraguay Estimated	3,069.47	-0.9%
64	Barbados Estimated	3,061.58	-0.5%
65	Azerbaijan Estimated	3,055.43	+1.3%
66	Samoa Estimated	3,035.86	+1.5%
67	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	3,031.18	-0.5%
68	Costa Rica Estimated	3,020.16	+3%
69	Ukraine Estimated	3,012.31	-0.4%
70	Guyana Estimated	2,998.31	+0.1%
71	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	2,977.91	-1.2%
72	Libya Estimated	2,962.62	+0.1%
73	Oman Estimated	2,956.25	-2.2%
74	Chile Estimated	2,954.51	+1%
75	Mauritius Estimated	2,953.44	-0.6%
76	French Polynesia Estimated	2,932.28	-1.2%
77	Taiwan Estimated	2,931.69	-0.2%
78	Iran Estimated	2,925.94	+0.4%
79	Vanuatu Estimated	2,919.94	+0.2%
80	Kazakhstan Estimated	2,900.37	+0.9%
81	Lebanon Estimated	2,899.12	+0.3%
82	Seychelles Estimated	2,894.48	+1.3%
83	Dominican Republic Estimated	2,890.5	+3.4%
84	Turkmenistan Estimated	2,889.51	-0.8%
85	Indonesia Estimated	2,887.21	+2.7%
86	Cyprus Estimated	2,869.79	-1.4%
87	Malaysia Estimated	2,864.2	-0.5%
88	Mauritania Estimated	2,862.24	-1%
89	Moldova Estimated	2,860.93	+2.1%
90	Slovakia Estimated	2,857.34	+4.3%
91	Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated	2,855.94	+3%
92	Vietnam Estimated	2,847.28	+0.9%
93	Bulgaria Estimated	2,845.91	+2.4%
94	Panama Estimated	2,832.61	+1.4%
95	South Africa Estimated	2,818.74	+0.6%
96	Georgia Estimated	2,814.57	-2.2%
97	Cameroon Estimated	2,803.31	-0.1%
98	New Caledonia Estimated	2,801.47	+0.8%
99	Nepal Estimated	2,794.55	+3.9%
100	Myanmar Estimated	2,794.16	+0.7%
101	Ghana Estimated	2,793.78	-0.7%
102	Maldives Estimated	2,773.15	+1.4%
103	Jamaica Estimated	2,772.49	-1.8%
104	Thailand Estimated	2,763.2	-0.4%
105	Jordan Estimated	2,754.3	-1.3%
106	Peru Estimated	2,753.59	-0.4%
107	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2,753.33	+0.2%
108	Belize Estimated	2,740.81	+0.4%
109	Sri Lanka Estimated	2,740.52	-8.8%
110	Mongolia Estimated	2,720.6	+1.2%
111	El Salvador Estimated	2,697.39	+1.8%
112	Syria Estimated	2,683.93	-4.1%
113	Djibouti Estimated	2,677.79	-0.8%
114	Fiji Estimated	2,676.68	-2%
115	Gabon Estimated	2,658.37	-2.7%
116	Cambodia Estimated	2,651.16	+0.4%
117	Kyrgyzstan Estimated	2,638.87	-1.7%
118	Nicaragua Estimated	2,638.18	+3.1%
119	Cape Verde Estimated	2,637.96	+1.5%
120	Burkina Faso Estimated	2,636.41	-0.3%
121	Saint Lucia Estimated	2,632.22	+0.8%
122	Guinea Estimated	2,629.76	+0.8%
123	Niger Estimated	2,620.82	+1.3%
124	Honduras Estimated	2,615.33	+1.4%
125	Suriname Estimated	2,607.54	-0.6%
126	Iraq Estimated	2,603.62	+0.8%
127	Bahamas Estimated	2,602.25	+0.3%
128	Grenada Estimated	2,596.1	+3.4%
129	Philippines Estimated	2,592.3	+3.2%
130	Malawi Estimated	2,573.69	-1.1%
131	Guatemala Estimated	2,564.31	+1.5%
132	Nigeria Estimated	2,561.62	0%
133	Gambia Estimated	2,554.73	+1.5%
134	Botswana Estimated	2,545.17	+0.5%
135	Ecuador Estimated	2,537.41	-2.6%
136	Senegal Estimated	2,524.1	+2.3%
137	Comoros Estimated	2,506.62	+2.6%
138	Tajikistan Estimated	2,482.29	+2.5%
139	India Estimated	2,472.94	+2.1%
140	Ethiopia Estimated	2,471.91	-0.5%
141	Namibia Estimated	2,442.37	-0.9%
142	Pakistan Estimated	2,437.74	+2.5%
143	Angola Estimated	2,429.06	-1.6%
144	Bangladesh Estimated	2,425.98	-2.2%
145	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	2,407.06	-0.5%
146	Tanzania Estimated	2,392.75	+0.6%
147	Eswatini Estimated	2,387.13	-0%
148	Bolivia Estimated	2,382.64	+1.9%
149	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2,357.43	+1.9%
150	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	2,325.9	+7.2%
151	Sierra Leone Estimated	2,324.13	-3.4%
152	Solomon Islands Estimated	2,300.72	-0.4%
153	Timor-Leste Estimated	2,285.35	-0.6%
154	Afghanistan Estimated	2,240.71	-0.5%
155	Venezuela Estimated	2,231.47	-14.7%
156	Rwanda Estimated	2,220.79	+6.7%
157	Papua New Guinea Estimated	2,188.71	+0.7%
158	Kenya Estimated	2,174.69	-2.7%
159	Haiti Estimated	2,174.42	-2.2%
160	Zambia Estimated	2,166.63	+2.9%
161	Zimbabwe Estimated	2,140.75	+3.1%
162	Liberia Estimated	2,133.04	+1.7%
163	Republic of the Congo Estimated	2,099.19	-1%
164	Lesotho Estimated	2,096.03	+0.5%
165	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	2,085.97	-2.2%
166	North Korea Estimated	2,027.67	-0.8%
167	Madagascar Estimated	2,001.15	-0.5%
168	Uganda Estimated	1,996.45	-11.9%
169	Mozambique Estimated	1,834.09	-4.6%
170	Yemen Estimated	1,832.72	-6.5%

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Dietary energy available for human consumption, in kilocalories, per person per day from all foods, as published in FAOSTAT's food balances (item "Grand Total"). FAO converts each food's supply into nutrients with food composition factors and divides by the resident population.

Supply, not intake: the food available for human consumption at retail level, from production plus imports minus exports, stock changes and non-food uses, divided by the population. Household waste and what is not eaten are included, so it is higher than what people actually eat. FAO compiles these balances itself from national production and trade data, so every value is marked as estimated. The series starts in 2010 with FAO's current food balance method; FAO's older balances for 1961 to 2013 use another method and are not included. FAO revises past years with each release.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 8 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2016 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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Ireland, with 3,814.63 kcal per person per day in 2016, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Yemen, with 1,832.72 kcal per person per day in 2016.

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