Countries by food supply (calories per person)

Ireland had the highest food supply (calories per person) of 176 countries in 2022, at 3,947.21 kcal per person per day. Lesotho had the lowest, at 1,814.45 kcal per person per day. The median was 2,973.25 kcal per person per day and the figure for the World was 2,997.7 kcal per person per day. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest3,947.21Ireland

Lowest1,814.45Lesotho

Median2,973.25176 countries

World2,997.7History

Map of countries, 2022

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kcal per person per day, 2022. 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, 2022

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	2022 kcal per person per day	Change on 2021
1	Ireland Estimated	3,947.21	+1.6%
2	United States Estimated	3,937	+1.6%
3	Belgium Estimated	3,918	+0.2%
4	Israel Estimated	3,916.81	+1.9%
5	Serbia Estimated	3,860.11	+1.1%
6	Türkiye Estimated	3,825.42	+2.1%
7	Austria Estimated	3,802.17	+0.2%
8	Denmark Estimated	3,785.39	-0.4%
9	Saudi Arabia Estimated	3,720.47	-0.3%
10	Poland Estimated	3,718.85	+1.1%
11	Italy Estimated	3,709.26	+0.5%
12	Romania Estimated	3,701.64	+1.1%
13	Iceland Estimated	3,701.19	+1.6%
14	Montenegro Estimated	3,686.71	+0.1%
15	Germany Estimated	3,600.29	-0.2%
16	Canada Estimated	3,581.86	-0.1%
17	Australia Estimated	3,539.56	+1.9%
18	France Estimated	3,532.28	+1.2%
19	North Macedonia Estimated	3,522.43	-1.3%
20	Russia Estimated	3,501.58	+2%
21	Luxembourg Estimated	3,498.93	+1.2%
22	Portugal Estimated	3,498.41	+0.3%
23	Bahrain Estimated	3,493.86	+1.5%
24	Norway Estimated	3,486.89	-0.6%
25	Hungary Estimated	3,482.06	+1.8%
26	China Estimated	3,472.29	+1.6%
27	Netherlands Estimated	3,471.64	+0.3%
28	Tunisia Estimated	3,468.05	-1.8%
29	Switzerland Estimated	3,460.63	+0.6%
30	Bosnia and Herzegovina Estimated	3,441.71	+2%
31	Belarus Estimated	3,431.01	+0.5%
32	South Korea Estimated	3,428.97	+0.6%
33	Brazil Estimated	3,419.51	+1.3%
34	Algeria Estimated	3,417.1	-1.1%
35	Croatia Estimated	3,416.49	+1%
36	Czechia Estimated	3,393.45	+0.4%
37	Malta Estimated	3,379.84	+1.2%
38	Finland Estimated	3,372.04	+1.1%
39	Lithuania Estimated	3,359.86	-0.2%
40	Spain Estimated	3,355.24	-0.6%
41	Argentina Estimated	3,355.13	+0.4%
42	Greece Estimated	3,344.94	-0.2%
43	United Kingdom Estimated	3,337.85	+0.5%
44	Sweden Estimated	3,327.35	+0.9%
45	Uruguay Estimated	3,325.26	+0.2%
46	Morocco Estimated	3,322.42	-1.7%
47	Azerbaijan Estimated	3,312.6	-1.4%
48	Qatar Estimated	3,305.07	-0.2%
49	Estonia Estimated	3,303.88	+1.9%
50	Latvia Estimated	3,282.47	+0.9%
51	Uzbekistan Estimated	3,276.98	+1.1%
52	Tuvalu Estimated	3,269.3	+1.8%
53	Dominican Republic Estimated	3,269.26	+3.3%
54	Albania Estimated	3,263.47	+6.4%
55	Mexico Estimated	3,263.41	-0.1%
56	Marshall Islands Estimated	3,251.79	+1.2%
57	Guyana Estimated	3,238.88	+2.7%
58	Mauritius Estimated	3,207.72	+3.1%
59	Kuwait Estimated	3,199.95	-6.1%
60	Samoa Estimated	3,178.29	+0.7%
61	Bhutan Estimated	3,174.82	-1.9%
62	Laos Estimated	3,166.97	+1.4%
63	Kazakhstan Estimated	3,161.89	+1.9%
64	Armenia Estimated	3,139.31	0%
65	Ghana Estimated	3,137.64	-0.2%
66	New Zealand Estimated	3,133.9	-0.5%
67	Slovenia Estimated	3,130.65	+1.3%
68	United Arab Emirates Estimated	3,129.57	-1.3%
69	Colombia Estimated	3,127.46	+0.4%
70	Barbados Estimated	3,122.34	-1.8%
71	Chile Estimated	3,110.53	-0.8%
72	Egypt Estimated	3,107.94	+0.9%
73	French Polynesia Estimated	3,098.13	-1.3%
74	Panama Estimated	3,095.87	+1.4%
75	Mongolia Estimated	3,093.6	+1.6%
76	Nauru Estimated	3,084.78	+2.8%
77	Kiribati Estimated	3,076.6	-1.4%
78	Paraguay Estimated	3,065	-1.1%
79	Oman Estimated	3,055.71	+0.7%
80	Vietnam Estimated	3,030.66	+0.9%
81	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	3,015.8	+1%
82	Costa Rica Estimated	3,012.99	-0.9%
83	Bulgaria Estimated	3,003.44	+0.7%
84	New Caledonia Estimated	3,000.71	+0.8%
85	Georgia Estimated	2,998.67	-0.4%
86	Malaysia Estimated	2,990.53	+2.4%
87	Slovakia Estimated	2,980.59	+0.1%
88	Taiwan Estimated	2,974.34	+0.7%
89	Nepal Estimated	2,972.16	-0.7%
90	Tonga Estimated	2,969.29	-2.1%
91	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	2,965.07	-1.1%
92	Mauritania Estimated	2,954.96	+2.3%
93	Moldova Estimated	2,951.96	-1.6%
94	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2,946.38	+0.8%
95	Cameroon Estimated	2,936.36	+2.4%
96	Libya Estimated	2,936.26	-2.1%
97	Philippines Estimated	2,933.48	+3.5%
98	Jamaica Estimated	2,915.25	+1.9%
99	Vanuatu Estimated	2,913.74	-0.1%
100	Hong Kong Estimated	2,909.83	-4.5%
101	Indonesia Estimated	2,906.76	+1.3%
102	Guinea Estimated	2,901.29	+1.2%
103	Macao Estimated	2,898.88	-0.3%
104	Fiji Estimated	2,898.13	-0.9%
105	El Salvador Estimated	2,891.7	+2.2%
106	Seychelles Estimated	2,890.34	+0.5%
107	Iran Estimated	2,882.49	+0.6%
108	Cyprus Estimated	2,867.17	-0%
109	Thailand Estimated	2,861.83	+0.1%
110	Peru Estimated	2,859.54	+0.4%
111	Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated	2,848.32	-1.7%
112	Belize Estimated	2,837.46	+0.1%
113	Lebanon Estimated	2,831.86	-0.4%
114	Turkmenistan Estimated	2,827.4	-1.5%
115	Myanmar Estimated	2,805.81	-1.1%
116	Nicaragua Estimated	2,798.45	+1.7%
117	Guatemala Estimated	2,781.25	+1.3%
118	Senegal Estimated	2,773.65	+1.4%
119	Cape Verde Estimated	2,773.12	-1.7%
120	Grenada Estimated	2,771.53	+0.2%
121	Ukraine Estimated	2,767.31	-4.1%
122	Burkina Faso Estimated	2,758.83	+3.5%
123	Botswana Estimated	2,738.33	+1.6%
124	Micronesia Estimated	2,736.16	-2.4%
125	Tajikistan Estimated	2,734.8	+0.9%
126	South Africa Estimated	2,724.19	+1.4%
127	Venezuela Estimated	2,721.39	+4.8%
128	Kyrgyzstan Estimated	2,720.61	+4.8%
129	Saint Lucia Estimated	2,718.12	-0.1%
130	Iraq Estimated	2,703.57	+0.2%
131	Djibouti Estimated	2,695.06	-2.5%
132	Niger Estimated	2,694.95	+4.3%
133	Maldives Estimated	2,671.93	+1.4%
134	Bahamas Estimated	2,657.3	-0.7%
135	Gabon Estimated	2,636.74	+0.2%
136	Honduras Estimated	2,631.64	-1.1%
137	Cambodia Estimated	2,623.59	-2.6%
138	Bangladesh Estimated	2,619.73	+0.9%
139	Malawi Estimated	2,614.3	-1.1%
140	Jordan Estimated	2,609.38	+2.2%
141	India Estimated	2,594.89	+1.8%
142	Suriname Estimated	2,587.9	-0.9%
143	Ecuador Estimated	2,570.31	-0.3%
144	Sri Lanka Estimated	2,567.64	-12.6%
145	Ethiopia Estimated	2,563.25	+0.3%
146	Eswatini Estimated	2,554.05	+1.6%
147	Namibia Estimated	2,545.6	+2.4%
148	Nigeria Estimated	2,520.64	-1%
149	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	2,512.09	+2.2%
150	Uganda Estimated	2,495.4	+8.7%
151	Rwanda Estimated	2,477.34	+6%
152	Tanzania Estimated	2,474.09	+2.3%
153	Pakistan Estimated	2,466.24	-4.7%
154	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	2,440	-3.2%
155	Gambia Estimated	2,437.76	+2.4%
156	Angola Estimated	2,426.99	+0.9%
157	Sierra Leone Estimated	2,418.5	+2.2%
158	Comoros Estimated	2,416.87	-1.1%
159	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2,374.95	-2.3%
160	Bolivia Estimated	2,363.69	-1%
161	Syria Estimated	2,348.6	-1.7%
162	Zimbabwe Estimated	2,319.4	+0.4%
163	Timor-Leste Estimated	2,301.75	+2.7%
164	Afghanistan Estimated	2,268.63	+1.1%
165	Mozambique Estimated	2,245.93	+2.4%
166	Papua New Guinea Estimated	2,202.56	+1.3%
167	Solomon Islands Estimated	2,190.9	-2.9%
168	Republic of the Congo Estimated	2,152.28	-1%
169	Kenya Estimated	2,137.61	-1.2%
170	Zambia Estimated	2,119.18	-3%
171	Liberia Estimated	2,105.7	+1.5%
172	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	2,033.1	-0.7%
173	Madagascar Estimated	2,013.99	+4.6%
174	Haiti Estimated	1,912.47	-8.5%
175	Yemen Estimated	1,838.52	-8.9%
176	Lesotho Estimated	1,814.45	+0.1%

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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. 2 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2022 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 3,947.21 kcal per person per day in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Lesotho, with 1,814.45 kcal per person per day in 2022.

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