Countries by food supply (calories per person)

Ireland had the highest food supply (calories per person) of 170 countries in 2017, at 3,947.62 kcal per person per day. Yemen had the lowest, at 1,871.15 kcal per person per day. The median was 2,895.37 kcal per person per day and the figure for the World was 2,921.15 kcal per person per day. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest3,947.62Ireland

Lowest1,871.15Yemen

Median2,895.37170 countries

World2,921.15History

Map of countries, 2017

Under 2,500
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kcal per person per day, 2017. 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, 2017

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	2017 kcal per person per day	Change on 2016
1	Ireland Estimated	3,947.62	+3.5%
2	Belgium Estimated	3,795.17	+0.5%
3	United States Estimated	3,763.31	+0.2%
4	Austria Estimated	3,761.97	+1.1%
5	Israel Estimated	3,738.66	+0.9%
6	Türkiye Estimated	3,699.02	+1.3%
7	Denmark Estimated	3,656.42	-0.4%
8	Iceland Estimated	3,633.78	+1.5%
9	Romania Estimated	3,596.99	+0.5%
10	Saudi Arabia Estimated	3,575.82	+1.5%
11	Canada Estimated	3,569.68	-0.1%
12	Germany Estimated	3,554.88	-0.3%
13	Italy Estimated	3,530.86	+0.3%
14	Malta Estimated	3,521.7	+1.8%
15	Serbia Estimated	3,519.72	+0.8%
16	Montenegro Estimated	3,516.36	+1.5%
17	Poland Estimated	3,489.2	+1.5%
18	Australia Estimated	3,472.98	-1.3%
19	Cuba Estimated	3,459.98	-0.5%
20	France Estimated	3,452.03	+0.1%
21	Portugal Estimated	3,424.56	+0.7%
22	Russia Estimated	3,420.61	+0.9%
23	Norway Estimated	3,417.89	-0%
24	Kuwait Estimated	3,413.71	-1%
25	Lithuania Estimated	3,411.81	+0.5%
26	Switzerland Estimated	3,410.72	+0.8%
27	Tunisia Estimated	3,394.91	+0.4%
28	South Korea Estimated	3,377.96	+1.6%
29	Greece Estimated	3,371.83	+0.8%
30	United Kingdom Estimated	3,370.01	+0.7%
31	Morocco Estimated	3,367.77	-1.4%
32	Luxembourg Estimated	3,367.06	+0.3%
33	Albania Estimated	3,354.93	+0.3%
34	Algeria Estimated	3,349.87	-1.9%
35	Belarus Estimated	3,314.59	+0.6%
36	Bosnia and Herzegovina Estimated	3,304.25	-0.7%
37	Czechia Estimated	3,298.72	+1.2%
38	Spain Estimated	3,297.49	+0.5%
39	Brazil Estimated	3,296.82	+0.5%
40	Finland Estimated	3,269.79	-0%
41	China Estimated	3,264.49	+1.2%
42	Slovenia Estimated	3,259.58	+1%
43	Netherlands Estimated	3,252.45	+0.3%
44	North Macedonia Estimated	3,248.39	+0.7%
45	Hungary Estimated	3,236.5	+1.1%
46	Latvia Estimated	3,227.63	+0.2%
47	Uruguay Estimated	3,222.34	+0.7%
48	Mexico Estimated	3,209.96	+0.3%
49	Sweden Estimated	3,200.74	-0.7%
50	Uzbekistan Estimated	3,196.93	-2%
51	Argentina Estimated	3,178.47	+0.9%
52	Croatia Estimated	3,174.85	-1.1%
53	United Arab Emirates Estimated	3,161.19	0%
54	Macao Estimated	3,156.3	+0.4%
55	Hong Kong Estimated	3,155.46	+1.6%
56	Egypt Estimated	3,149.92	+0.3%
57	New Zealand Estimated	3,126.8	-0.9%
58	Laos Estimated	3,118.33	-1%
59	Azerbaijan Estimated	3,111.73	+1.8%
60	Paraguay Estimated	3,103.42	+1.1%
61	Estonia Estimated	3,101.95	-0.1%
62	Kiribati Estimated	3,066.99	-1%
63	Armenia Estimated	3,064.87	-2%
64	Costa Rica Estimated	3,056.04	+1.2%
65	Colombia Estimated	3,052.02	-1.3%
66	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	3,048.4	+0.6%
67	Guyana Estimated	3,048.12	+1.7%
68	Barbados Estimated	3,032.73	-0.9%
69	Oman Estimated	3,032.07	+2.6%
70	Samoa Estimated	3,016.95	-0.6%
71	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	2,989.73	+0.4%
72	Mauritius Estimated	2,988.68	+1.2%
73	Kazakhstan Estimated	2,986.28	+3%
74	Ukraine Estimated	2,982.75	-1%
75	Vanuatu Estimated	2,960.61	+1.4%
76	Libya Estimated	2,957.46	-0.2%
77	Chile Estimated	2,956.5	+0.1%
78	Indonesia Estimated	2,950.85	+2.2%
79	Dominican Republic Estimated	2,939.87	+1.7%
80	Taiwan Estimated	2,930.44	-0%
81	Moldova Estimated	2,928.34	+2.4%
82	Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated	2,927.83	+2.5%
83	French Polynesia Estimated	2,923.92	-0.3%
84	Lebanon Estimated	2,901.65	+0.1%
85	Turkmenistan Estimated	2,896.31	+0.2%
86	Malaysia Estimated	2,894.42	+1.1%
87	Georgia Estimated	2,891.54	+2.7%
88	Ghana Estimated	2,888.48	+3.4%
89	Slovakia Estimated	2,884.37	+0.9%
90	Panama Estimated	2,876.94	+1.6%
91	Mauritania Estimated	2,870.1	+0.3%
92	Cyprus Estimated	2,863.39	-0.2%
93	Vietnam Estimated	2,862.37	+0.5%
94	Iran Estimated	2,858.73	-2.3%
95	Bulgaria Estimated	2,855.27	+0.3%
96	Jamaica Estimated	2,850.57	+2.8%
97	Nepal Estimated	2,846.61	+1.9%
98	South Africa Estimated	2,835.26	+0.6%
99	Seychelles Estimated	2,818.74	-2.6%
100	New Caledonia Estimated	2,812.08	+0.4%
101	Myanmar Estimated	2,808.31	+0.5%
102	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2,805.04	+1.9%
103	Cameroon Estimated	2,779	-0.9%
104	Belize Estimated	2,777.86	+1.4%
105	Peru Estimated	2,766.51	+0.5%
106	Thailand Estimated	2,751.94	-0.4%
107	El Salvador Estimated	2,750.76	+2%
108	Fiji Estimated	2,726.68	+1.9%
109	Jordan Estimated	2,719.21	-1.3%
110	Cape Verde Estimated	2,710.05	+2.7%
111	Djibouti Estimated	2,703.37	+1%
112	Kyrgyzstan Estimated	2,685.92	+1.8%
113	Maldives Estimated	2,680.02	-3.4%
114	Cambodia Estimated	2,673.85	+0.9%
115	Nicaragua Estimated	2,668.11	+1.1%
116	Saint Lucia Estimated	2,667.14	+1.3%
117	Guinea Estimated	2,664.44	+1.3%
118	Mongolia Estimated	2,651.09	-2.6%
119	Philippines Estimated	2,636.43	+1.7%
120	Iraq Estimated	2,624.16	+0.8%
121	Bahamas Estimated	2,623.63	+0.8%
122	Syria Estimated	2,623.56	-2.2%
123	Sri Lanka Estimated	2,616.23	-4.5%
124	Honduras Estimated	2,613.8	-0.1%
125	Gabon Estimated	2,610.08	-1.8%
126	Burkina Faso Estimated	2,610.01	-1%
127	Guatemala Estimated	2,606.19	+1.6%
127	Suriname Estimated	2,606.19	-0.1%
129	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	2,603.11	+11.9%
130	Grenada Estimated	2,602.03	+0.2%
131	Niger Estimated	2,601.04	-0.8%
132	Malawi Estimated	2,582.53	+0.3%
133	Botswana Estimated	2,572.09	+1.1%
134	Senegal Estimated	2,561.4	+1.5%
135	Nigeria Estimated	2,558.58	-0.1%
136	Tajikistan Estimated	2,554.45	+2.9%
137	Ecuador Estimated	2,549.78	+0.5%
138	Ethiopia Estimated	2,523.13	+2.1%
139	Pakistan Estimated	2,522.88	+3.5%
140	India Estimated	2,513.81	+1.7%
141	Gambia Estimated	2,498.57	-2.2%
142	Comoros Estimated	2,495.3	-0.5%
143	Bangladesh Estimated	2,488.05	+2.6%
144	Namibia Estimated	2,450.73	+0.3%
145	Angola Estimated	2,449.86	+0.9%
146	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	2,448.38	+1.7%
147	Eswatini Estimated	2,412.58	+1.1%
148	Bolivia Estimated	2,380.25	-0.1%
149	Tanzania Estimated	2,379.63	-0.5%
150	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2,356.68	-0%
151	Sierra Leone Estimated	2,356.59	+1.4%
152	Solomon Islands Estimated	2,341.7	+1.8%
153	Timor-Leste Estimated	2,307.63	+1%
154	Afghanistan Estimated	2,307.21	+3%
155	Venezuela Estimated	2,289.46	+2.6%
156	Rwanda Estimated	2,283.37	+2.8%
157	Zambia Estimated	2,214.6	+2.2%
158	Papua New Guinea Estimated	2,197.46	+0.4%
159	Kenya Estimated	2,192.95	+0.8%
160	Haiti Estimated	2,183.03	+0.4%
161	Zimbabwe Estimated	2,180.83	+1.9%
162	Lesotho Estimated	2,167.48	+3.4%
163	Liberia Estimated	2,153.49	+1%
164	Republic of the Congo Estimated	2,124.7	+1.2%
165	Uganda Estimated	2,121.32	+6.3%
166	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	2,121.05	+1.7%
167	North Korea Estimated	2,040.98	+0.7%
168	Madagascar Estimated	1,981.29	-1%
169	Mozambique Estimated	1,949.24	+6.3%
170	Yemen Estimated	1,871.15	+2.1%

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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 2017 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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Ireland, with 3,947.62 kcal per person per day in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Yemen, with 1,871.15 kcal per person per day in 2017.

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