Countries by food supply (calories per person)

Ireland had the highest food supply (calories per person) of 170 countries in 2018, at 3,931.02 kcal per person per day. Yemen had the lowest, at 1,866.24 kcal per person per day. The median was 2,909.21 kcal per person per day and the figure for the World was 2,926.08 kcal per person per day. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest3,931.02Ireland

Lowest1,866.24Yemen

Median2,909.21170 countries

World2,926.08History

Map of countries, 2018

Under 2,500
2,500 to 2,700
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2,900 to 3,200
3,200 to 3,400
3,400 and over
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kcal per person per day, 2018. 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, 2018

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	2018 kcal per person per day	Change on 2017
1	Ireland Estimated	3,931.02	-0.4%
2	Denmark Estimated	3,816.42	+4.4%
3	Belgium Estimated	3,807.81	+0.3%
4	United States Estimated	3,790.3	+0.7%
5	Austria Estimated	3,761.46	-0%
6	Türkiye Estimated	3,715.94	+0.5%
7	Saudi Arabia Estimated	3,704.1	+3.6%
8	Israel Estimated	3,678	-1.6%
9	Iceland Estimated	3,647.88	+0.4%
10	Romania Estimated	3,621.81	+0.7%
11	Serbia Estimated	3,586.84	+1.9%
12	Germany Estimated	3,586.32	+0.9%
13	Canada Estimated	3,575.58	+0.2%
14	Montenegro Estimated	3,543.19	+0.8%
15	Poland Estimated	3,531.69	+1.2%
16	Italy Estimated	3,527.79	-0.1%
17	Norway Estimated	3,487.25	+2%
18	Portugal Estimated	3,450.71	+0.8%
19	Australia Estimated	3,450.47	-0.6%
20	Tunisia Estimated	3,445.39	+1.5%
21	Malta Estimated	3,444.57	-2.2%
22	France Estimated	3,437.36	-0.4%
23	Cuba Estimated	3,433.97	-0.8%
24	Morocco Estimated	3,420.56	+1.6%
25	Kuwait Estimated	3,417.35	+0.1%
26	Switzerland Estimated	3,416.6	+0.2%
27	Luxembourg Estimated	3,398.43	+0.9%
28	South Korea Estimated	3,388.47	+0.3%
29	Russia Estimated	3,375.45	-1.3%
30	Lithuania Estimated	3,364.33	-1.4%
31	Greece Estimated	3,362.53	-0.3%
32	Spain Estimated	3,346.39	+1.5%
33	Algeria Estimated	3,346.05	-0.1%
34	Brazil Estimated	3,339.51	+1.3%
35	Bosnia and Herzegovina Estimated	3,337.73	+1%
36	North Macedonia Estimated	3,336.73	+2.7%
37	Albania Estimated	3,331.9	-0.7%
38	United Kingdom Estimated	3,323.67	-1.4%
39	Finland Estimated	3,318.52	+1.5%
40	Belarus Estimated	3,315.91	0%
41	Czechia Estimated	3,300.27	0%
42	Hungary Estimated	3,294.71	+1.8%
43	Netherlands Estimated	3,292.21	+1.2%
44	China Estimated	3,280.37	+0.5%
45	Uruguay Estimated	3,272.24	+1.5%
46	Latvia Estimated	3,261.66	+1.1%
47	Croatia Estimated	3,250.38	+2.4%
48	Slovenia Estimated	3,250.13	-0.3%
49	Argentina Estimated	3,220.13	+1.3%
50	Uzbekistan Estimated	3,218.44	+0.7%
51	Mexico Estimated	3,217.6	+0.2%
52	Estonia Estimated	3,197.57	+3.1%
53	Hong Kong Estimated	3,180.43	+0.8%
54	Macao Estimated	3,168.25	+0.4%
55	Sweden Estimated	3,166.42	-1.1%
56	Egypt Estimated	3,166.2	+0.5%
57	Azerbaijan Estimated	3,166.17	+1.7%
58	United Arab Emirates Estimated	3,157.29	-0.1%
59	New Zealand Estimated	3,153.93	+0.9%
60	Laos Estimated	3,142.91	+0.8%
61	Paraguay Estimated	3,111.86	+0.3%
62	Guyana Estimated	3,099.8	+1.7%
63	Armenia Estimated	3,096.23	+1%
64	Kiribati Estimated	3,095.68	+0.9%
65	Colombia Estimated	3,088.03	+1.2%
66	Kazakhstan Estimated	3,080.38	+3.2%
67	Barbados Estimated	3,077.41	+1.5%
68	Samoa Estimated	3,067.96	+1.7%
69	Costa Rica Estimated	3,053.24	-0.1%
70	Oman Estimated	3,050.91	+0.6%
71	Panama Estimated	3,036.12	+5.5%
72	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	3,033.41	-0.5%
73	Moldova Estimated	3,003.74	+2.6%
74	Dominican Republic Estimated	3,001.27	+2.1%
75	Mauritius Estimated	3,001.26	+0.4%
76	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	2,998.14	+0.3%
77	Chile Estimated	2,990.82	+1.2%
78	Ghana Estimated	2,972.78	+2.9%
79	Georgia Estimated	2,966.34	+2.6%
80	Libya Estimated	2,966.18	+0.3%
81	Taiwan Estimated	2,959.58	+1%
82	Vanuatu Estimated	2,951.85	-0.3%
83	French Polynesia Estimated	2,939.42	+0.5%
84	Ukraine Estimated	2,938.99	-1.5%
85	Seychelles Estimated	2,909.23	+3.2%
86	Bulgaria Estimated	2,909.19	+1.9%
87	Slovakia Estimated	2,908.12	+0.8%
88	Lebanon Estimated	2,908.08	+0.2%
89	Indonesia Estimated	2,907.28	-1.5%
90	Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated	2,896.68	-1.1%
91	Mauritania Estimated	2,895.06	+0.9%
92	Malaysia Estimated	2,893.77	-0%
93	Vietnam Estimated	2,885.87	+0.8%
94	Jamaica Estimated	2,880.9	+1.1%
95	Turkmenistan Estimated	2,878.52	-0.6%
96	Cyprus Estimated	2,857.91	-0.2%
97	Nepal Estimated	2,854.67	+0.3%
98	Mongolia Estimated	2,846.54	+7.4%
99	New Caledonia Estimated	2,834.64	+0.8%
100	Iran Estimated	2,828.57	-1.1%
101	South Africa Estimated	2,826.07	-0.3%
102	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2,825.25	+0.7%
103	Cameroon Estimated	2,810.38	+1.1%
104	Myanmar Estimated	2,798.85	-0.3%
105	Fiji Estimated	2,792.41	+2.4%
105	Peru Estimated	2,792.41	+0.9%
107	El Salvador Estimated	2,785.58	+1.3%
108	Belize Estimated	2,783.79	+0.2%
109	Thailand Estimated	2,777.13	+0.9%
110	Sri Lanka Estimated	2,764.67	+5.7%
111	Cape Verde Estimated	2,746.52	+1.3%
112	Djibouti Estimated	2,738.14	+1.3%
113	Philippines Estimated	2,728.61	+3.5%
114	Guinea Estimated	2,721.81	+2.2%
115	Kyrgyzstan Estimated	2,714.06	+1%
116	Niger Estimated	2,687.25	+3.3%
117	Saint Lucia Estimated	2,679.32	+0.5%
118	Cambodia Estimated	2,672.77	-0%
119	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	2,668.33	+2.5%
120	Grenada Estimated	2,661.21	+2.3%
121	Iraq Estimated	2,657.28	+1.3%
122	Bahamas Estimated	2,657.27	+1.3%
123	Burkina Faso Estimated	2,648.69	+1.5%
124	Nicaragua Estimated	2,644.57	-0.9%
125	Jordan Estimated	2,641.07	-2.9%
126	Maldives Estimated	2,641.05	-1.5%
127	Honduras Estimated	2,633.02	+0.7%
128	Suriname Estimated	2,631.37	+1%
129	Gabon Estimated	2,628.82	+0.7%
130	Tajikistan Estimated	2,628.54	+2.9%
131	Malawi Estimated	2,591.12	+0.3%
132	Senegal Estimated	2,590.15	+1.1%
133	Guatemala Estimated	2,587.73	-0.7%
134	Bangladesh Estimated	2,566.95	+3.2%
135	Ecuador Estimated	2,541.55	-0.3%
136	Botswana Estimated	2,534.47	-1.5%
137	Syria Estimated	2,525.83	-3.7%
138	India Estimated	2,525.82	+0.5%
139	Nigeria Estimated	2,519.65	-1.5%
140	Ethiopia Estimated	2,506.2	-0.7%
141	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	2,489.8	+1.7%
142	Comoros Estimated	2,486.01	-0.4%
143	Eswatini Estimated	2,475.13	+2.6%
144	Angola Estimated	2,449.56	-0%
145	Namibia Estimated	2,427.62	-0.9%
146	Bolivia Estimated	2,413.26	+1.4%
147	Gambia Estimated	2,404.64	-3.8%
148	Pakistan Estimated	2,368.91	-6.1%
149	Tanzania Estimated	2,362.98	-0.7%
150	Sierra Leone Estimated	2,360.43	+0.2%
151	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2,356.16	-0%
152	Uganda Estimated	2,317.84	+9.3%
153	Solomon Islands Estimated	2,308.07	-1.4%
154	Afghanistan Estimated	2,261.79	-2%
155	Timor-Leste Estimated	2,248.27	-2.6%
156	Zambia Estimated	2,244.16	+1.3%
157	Kenya Estimated	2,226.6	+1.5%
158	Rwanda Estimated	2,212.96	-3.1%
159	Zimbabwe Estimated	2,204.99	+1.1%
160	Lesotho Estimated	2,192.58	+1.2%
161	Venezuela Estimated	2,189.76	-4.4%
162	Papua New Guinea Estimated	2,178.43	-0.9%
163	Haiti Estimated	2,138.57	-2%
164	Liberia Estimated	2,118.28	-1.6%
165	Republic of the Congo Estimated	2,110.25	-0.7%
166	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	2,100.95	-0.9%
167	Mozambique Estimated	2,082.22	+6.8%
168	North Korea Estimated	1,981.11	-2.9%
169	Madagascar Estimated	1,972.93	-0.4%
170	Yemen Estimated	1,866.24	-0.3%

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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 2018 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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Which country has the highest food supply (calories per person)?

Ireland, with 3,931.02 kcal per person per day in 2018, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Which country has the lowest food supply (calories per person)?

Yemen, with 1,866.24 kcal per person per day in 2018.

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