Countries by food supply (calories per person)

Ireland had the highest food supply (calories per person) of 176 countries in 2020, at 3,918.35 kcal per person per day. Lesotho had the lowest, at 1,810.45 kcal per person per day. The median was 2,952.82 kcal per person per day and the figure for the World was 2,952.62 kcal per person per day. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest3,918.35Ireland

Lowest1,810.45Lesotho

Median2,952.82176 countries

World2,952.62History

Map of countries, 2020

Under 2,500
2,500 to 2,800
2,800 to 3,000
3,000 to 3,200
3,200 to 3,400
3,400 and over
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kcal per person per day, 2020. 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, 2020

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	2020 kcal per person per day	Change on 2019
1	Ireland Estimated	3,918.35	-1.2%
2	Belgium Estimated	3,865.77	+0.3%
3	United States Estimated	3,847.34	+0.7%
4	Denmark Estimated	3,815.31	+1.4%
5	Israel Estimated	3,789.31	+0.9%
6	Austria Estimated	3,784.16	-1%
7	Saudi Arabia Estimated	3,780.01	-0.2%
8	Serbia Estimated	3,747.2	+1.9%
9	Türkiye Estimated	3,743.59	+0.7%
10	Italy Estimated	3,662.34	+1.1%
11	Iceland Estimated	3,660.86	-0.6%
12	Romania Estimated	3,646.48	-0.1%
13	Poland Estimated	3,632.11	+1.5%
14	Germany Estimated	3,629.4	+0.3%
15	Canada Estimated	3,617	+1.7%
16	Montenegro Estimated	3,587.52	+0.5%
17	Norway Estimated	3,533.18	-0%
18	Tunisia Estimated	3,527.4	+0.8%
19	North Macedonia Estimated	3,523.35	+2.6%
20	Bahrain Estimated	3,510.61	+0.6%
21	France Estimated	3,485.45	+0.8%
22	Switzerland Estimated	3,483.37	+1.9%
23	Portugal Estimated	3,472.15	+0.3%
24	Luxembourg Estimated	3,469.07	-1%
25	Australia Estimated	3,468.42	-0.5%
26	Algeria Estimated	3,457.51	+0.8%
27	Kuwait Estimated	3,444.94	-0.5%
28	Netherlands Estimated	3,435.59	+0.1%
29	Belarus Estimated	3,433.25	+1.8%
30	Russia Estimated	3,410.97	+0.5%
31	Bosnia and Herzegovina Estimated	3,385.91	+0.9%
32	Qatar Estimated	3,377.29	-1.1%
33	South Korea Estimated	3,374.51	-0.3%
34	Hungary Estimated	3,369.22	+1.8%
35	Lithuania Estimated	3,363.79	+0.1%
36	Finland Estimated	3,360.16	+0.6%
37	Morocco Estimated	3,355.26	-1.2%
38	United Kingdom Estimated	3,355.24	-0%
39	Czechia Estimated	3,352.24	+0.4%
40	Spain Estimated	3,345.92	-0.1%
41	Albania Estimated	3,343.03	-0.5%
42	Azerbaijan Estimated	3,339.01	+1.7%
43	Croatia Estimated	3,334.82	+1.1%
44	China Estimated	3,330.46	+0.7%
45	Brazil Estimated	3,322.75	-0.8%
46	Greece Estimated	3,311.69	-1.9%
47	Argentina Estimated	3,297.1	+1.3%
48	Uruguay Estimated	3,286.13	-0.7%
49	Malta Estimated	3,281.47	-1.2%
50	Sweden Estimated	3,265.32	+1%
51	Bhutan Estimated	3,256.29	+0.7%
52	Mexico Estimated	3,251.04	-0%
53	United Arab Emirates Estimated	3,243.93	-0.1%
54	Estonia Estimated	3,243.85	-0.2%
55	Uzbekistan Estimated	3,242.26	+0.2%
56	Latvia Estimated	3,235.1	-1.1%
57	Barbados Estimated	3,189.57	+2.1%
58	Laos Estimated	3,155.66	-0.4%
59	New Zealand Estimated	3,148.11	+1%
60	Slovenia Estimated	3,147.56	-1.4%
61	Tuvalu Estimated	3,136.61	+4.8%
62	Armenia Estimated	3,120.83	-0.5%
63	Paraguay Estimated	3,115.62	+0.4%
64	Egypt Estimated	3,111.73	-1.6%
65	Dominican Republic Estimated	3,111.27	+1.8%
66	Guyana Estimated	3,109.42	+1.3%
67	Colombia Estimated	3,105.91	+1.4%
68	Hong Kong Estimated	3,103.3	-2.8%
69	Mauritius Estimated	3,098.5	+1.6%
70	French Polynesia Estimated	3,097.3	+2.2%
71	Samoa Estimated	3,091.97	+0.3%
72	Kiribati Estimated	3,091.46	-1.3%
73	Chile Estimated	3,079.38	+1.9%
74	Costa Rica Estimated	3,078.39	+0.2%
75	Kazakhstan Estimated	3,078.01	+0.6%
76	Oman Estimated	3,077.19	+0.5%
77	Ghana Estimated	3,070.15	+1.1%
78	Marshall Islands Estimated	3,063.26	+3.4%
79	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	3,029.94	+0.2%
80	Georgia Estimated	3,028.94	+0.3%
81	Panama Estimated	3,022.04	-0.9%
82	Nauru Estimated	3,016.7	+1%
83	Slovakia Estimated	3,015.58	-0.4%
84	Sri Lanka Estimated	3,008.15	+10.6%
85	Moldova Estimated	2,985.48	-0.9%
86	Taiwan Estimated	2,971.98	-0.1%
87	Vietnam Estimated	2,966.22	+1.5%
88	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	2,953.8	-1%
89	Libya Estimated	2,951.83	-1.5%
90	Mongolia Estimated	2,950.56	+3.3%
91	Nepal Estimated	2,938.41	+1.8%
92	Malaysia Estimated	2,933.2	+1.4%
93	New Caledonia Estimated	2,930.82	+0.6%
94	Tonga Estimated	2,923.36	+0.9%
95	Vanuatu Estimated	2,921.47	+0.2%
96	Bulgaria Estimated	2,916.51	+0.5%
97	Iran Estimated	2,904.7	+0.1%
98	Seychelles Estimated	2,901.82	+1.4%
99	Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated	2,901.64	+1.6%
100	Mauritania Estimated	2,895.31	0%
101	Macao Estimated	2,890.05	-8.3%
102	Fiji Estimated	2,883.64	+1.5%
103	Indonesia Estimated	2,880.21	-0.6%
104	Cyprus Estimated	2,877.71	-1%
105	Ukraine Estimated	2,874.88	-0.7%
106	Lebanon Estimated	2,870.19	-0.4%
107	Belize Estimated	2,868.88	+1.2%
108	Peru Estimated	2,867.19	+1.1%
109	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2,863.81	+0.5%
110	Turkmenistan Estimated	2,863.28	+0.6%
111	Thailand Estimated	2,850.46	+1.8%
112	Myanmar Estimated	2,845.76	+1.8%
113	Cape Verde Estimated	2,844.07	+2.2%
114	Cameroon Estimated	2,843.39	-0.8%
115	Jamaica Estimated	2,829.79	-2.6%
116	Guinea Estimated	2,824.06	+1.6%
117	El Salvador Estimated	2,798.51	-1.7%
118	Philippines Estimated	2,793.97	-0.3%
119	Micronesia Estimated	2,780.88	-0.4%
120	Djibouti Estimated	2,764.18	+0.5%
121	South Africa Estimated	2,760.18	-1.1%
122	Saint Lucia Estimated	2,730.58	+1.8%
123	Cambodia Estimated	2,721.31	+0.2%
124	Senegal Estimated	2,717.52	+2.7%
125	Guatemala Estimated	2,713.45	+2.9%
126	Niger Estimated	2,712.99	+2.3%
127	Tajikistan Estimated	2,702.98	-0.3%
128	Iraq Estimated	2,702.97	+0.7%
129	Nicaragua Estimated	2,700.46	+0.7%
130	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	2,694.48	+7.2%
131	Grenada Estimated	2,687.43	+2.2%
132	Burkina Faso Estimated	2,683.58	+2.1%
133	Gabon Estimated	2,657.27	+0.4%
134	Suriname Estimated	2,647.47	-0.6%
135	Botswana Estimated	2,642.04	+2.5%
136	Kyrgyzstan Estimated	2,635.07	-2.1%
137	Bahamas Estimated	2,629.62	+0.5%
138	Malawi Estimated	2,621.05	+1.8%
139	Honduras Estimated	2,618.17	-0.7%
140	Maldives Estimated	2,603.43	-2%
141	Jordan Estimated	2,596.32	+0.1%
142	Bangladesh Estimated	2,589.33	+2.6%
143	Ecuador Estimated	2,545.86	+1.5%
144	Ethiopia Estimated	2,543.33	+3%
145	India Estimated	2,540.72	+0.5%
146	Pakistan Estimated	2,520.05	-0.3%
147	Eswatini Estimated	2,506.78	+1.9%
148	Nigeria Estimated	2,497.85	-1.4%
149	Comoros Estimated	2,492.1	-0.3%
150	Namibia Estimated	2,449.99	-1.1%
151	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	2,430.24	-1.4%
152	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2,428.24	+2.1%
153	Syria Estimated	2,421.34	-2.6%
154	Gambia Estimated	2,405.73	-1.7%
155	Bolivia Estimated	2,404.37	-1.5%
156	Tanzania Estimated	2,402.09	+0.6%
157	Angola Estimated	2,390.13	-1.4%
158	Uganda Estimated	2,348.99	+14.6%
159	Sierra Leone Estimated	2,319.77	+0.6%
160	Solomon Islands Estimated	2,310.57	-2%
161	Venezuela Estimated	2,298.6	+2.9%
162	Afghanistan Estimated	2,259.95	+1.7%
163	Kenya Estimated	2,256.39	-1.5%
164	Zimbabwe Estimated	2,240.2	+4.5%
165	Timor-Leste Estimated	2,221.43	-1.6%
166	Papua New Guinea Estimated	2,213.91	+1.6%
167	Zambia Estimated	2,206.9	-0.9%
168	Mozambique Estimated	2,169.92	+2.9%
169	Republic of the Congo Estimated	2,159.68	+1.6%
170	Rwanda Estimated	2,158.08	-1.9%
171	Haiti Estimated	2,109.83	-0.7%
172	Liberia Estimated	2,084.2	-1%
173	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	2,026.11	-3.1%
174	Yemen Estimated	2,025.62	+6.8%
175	Madagascar Estimated	1,932.13	-0.7%
176	Lesotho Estimated	1,810.45	-9.2%

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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. 2 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2020 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 3,918.35 kcal per person per day in 2020, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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

Lesotho, with 1,810.45 kcal per person per day in 2020.

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