Countries by protein supply per person
Iceland had the highest protein supply per person of 170 countries in 2013, at 136.91 grams per person per day. Democratic Republic of the Congo had the lowest, at 29.64 grams per person per day. The median was 87.13 grams per person per day and the figure for the World was 85.74 grams per person per day. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Map of countries, 2013
- Under 61
- 61 to 72
- 72 to 87
- 87 to 98
- 98 to 110
- 110 and over
- No data
Top 40 countries, 2013
Full ranking
| Rank | Countries | 2013 | Change on 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iceland Estimated | 136.91 | +0.1% |
| 2 | Hong Kong Estimated | 135.64 | -2.1% |
| 3 | Norway Estimated | 129.01 | -1.1% |
| 4 | Israel Estimated | 128.86 | +2.2% |
| 5 | Australia Estimated | 120.74 | -0.4% |
| 6 | Ireland Estimated | 119.73 | +4.9% |
| 7 | Lithuania Estimated | 119.17 | +3.4% |
| 8 | Maldives Estimated | 118.2 | +1.8% |
| 9 | Finland Estimated | 118.05 | +0.1% |
| 10 | Serbia Estimated | 117.54 | +1.8% |
| 11 | Italy Estimated | 117.45 | -0.6% |
| 12 | United States Estimated | 117.28 | -0.2% |
| 13 | Montenegro Estimated | 116.69 | +2.2% |
| 14 | France Estimated | 116.33 | -0.2% |
| 15 | Luxembourg Estimated | 116.27 | -0.8% |
| 16 | Kuwait Estimated | 115.84 | +3.9% |
| 17 | Portugal Estimated | 115.62 | -0% |
| 18 | Denmark Estimated | 115.57 | +2.2% |
| 19 | Malta Estimated | 114.47 | +3.9% |
| 20 | Netherlands Estimated | 114.34 | -0.4% |
| 21 | Sweden Estimated | 113.72 | +2.3% |
| 22 | Albania Estimated | 112.63 | +0.9% |
| 23 | Greece Estimated | 112.1 | +1.3% |
| 24 | Russia Estimated | 112.07 | -0.9% |
| 25 | China Estimated | 110.98 | +0.5% |
| 26 | Canada Estimated | 110.82 | -1.1% |
| 27 | French Polynesia Estimated | 110.59 | -0.1% |
| 28 | Macao Estimated | 109.83 | -0.2% |
| 29 | Spain Estimated | 109.42 | +0.9% |
| 30 | Germany Estimated | 108.94 | -0.5% |
| 31 | Poland Estimated | 108.43 | -1.6% |
| 32 | Austria Estimated | 107.81 | +2% |
| 33 | Estonia Estimated | 107.21 | +7% |
| 34 | United Kingdom Estimated | 106.84 | -0.4% |
| 35 | Argentina Estimated | 106.21 | +3.1% |
| 36 | Türkiye Estimated | 105.64 | -0.2% |
| 37 | Romania Estimated | 105.6 | +1.3% |
| 38 | Slovenia Estimated | 103.99 | -2.4% |
| 39 | Brazil Estimated | 103.95 | +1.7% |
| 40 | South Korea Estimated | 103.88 | +0.4% |
| 41 | Armenia Estimated | 103.82 | +2.6% |
| 42 | New Zealand Estimated | 103.42 | +1.9% |
| 43 | Belarus Estimated | 102.99 | -0.9% |
| 44 | Belgium Estimated | 102.37 | +0.2% |
| 45 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated | 102.25 | +0.1% |
| 46 | Latvia Estimated | 101.96 | -0.5% |
| 47 | Barbados Estimated | 101.4 | +2.2% |
| 48 | United Arab Emirates Estimated | 101.07 | +2.1% |
| 49 | Bosnia and Herzegovina Estimated | 100.53 | +0.2% |
| 50 | Saudi Arabia Estimated | 100.16 | +0.3% |
| 51 | Tunisia Estimated | 100.09 | +0.2% |
| 52 | Uzbekistan Estimated | 99.04 | +2.7% |
| 53 | Morocco Estimated | 98.76 | +0.3% |
| 54 | Trinidad and Tobago Estimated | 98.27 | +3.5% |
| 55 | Cyprus Estimated | 98.19 | -3.3% |
| 56 | Ukraine Estimated | 97.98 | +1.1% |
| 57 | Bahamas Estimated | 97.88 | -3.6% |
| 58 | Samoa Estimated | 97.58 | +1% |
| 59 | Chile Estimated | 97.56 | +4.4% |
| 60 | Turkmenistan Estimated | 97.31 | -0.1% |
| 61 | Switzerland Estimated | 96.73 | +0.9% |
| 62 | Mongolia Estimated | 95.92 | +4.7% |
| 63 | Saint Lucia Estimated | 94.74 | -2.7% |
| 64 | Czechia Estimated | 94.4 | +0.7% |
| 65 | Algeria Estimated | 93.82 | -0.2% |
| 66 | New Caledonia Estimated | 93.66 | -0.7% |
| 67 | Cuba Estimated | 93.53 | +3.4% |
| 68 | Oman Estimated | 93.48 | +2.2% |
| 69 | Mexico Estimated | 93.11 | +1.5% |
| 70 | Taiwan Estimated | 92.96 | -1.1% |
| 71 | Azerbaijan Estimated | 92.41 | +0.9% |
| 72 | Mauritius Estimated | 92.34 | +1.9% |
| 73 | Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated | 92.12 | +1.2% |
| 74 | Egypt Estimated | 91.89 | -1.1% |
| 75 | Gabon Estimated | 91.72 | -0.4% |
| 76 | Malaysia Estimated | 91.58 | -0.2% |
| 77 | Uruguay Estimated | 91.49 | -5.2% |
| 78 | Antigua and Barbuda Estimated | 91.37 | -7.1% |
| 79 | Croatia Estimated | 91.1 | +1.2% |
| 80 | Myanmar Estimated | 90.32 | +1% |
| 81 | Seychelles Estimated | 88.67 | +0.3% |
| 82 | Kazakhstan Estimated | 87.67 | +0.5% |
| 83 | Libya Estimated | 87.5 | +1.3% |
| 84 | Guyana Estimated | 87.31 | -3.6% |
| 85 | Bulgaria Estimated | 87.23 | +1.3% |
| 86 | Niger Estimated | 87.02 | +0.6% |
| 87 | Moldova Estimated | 86.95 | +3.7% |
| 88 | Kyrgyzstan Estimated | 86.7 | -2.3% |
| 89 | North Macedonia Estimated | 86.59 | +2% |
| 90 | Vietnam Estimated | 86.24 | -0.5% |
| 91 | Jamaica Estimated | 85.1 | +0.9% |
| 92 | Iran Estimated | 84.82 | +0.6% |
| 93 | Mauritania Estimated | 84.04 | +2.5% |
| 94 | Panama Estimated | 82.94 | -0.3% |
| 95 | Hungary Estimated | 82.25 | -3.3% |
| 96 | Venezuela Estimated | 81.9 | -1.3% |
| 97 | Georgia Estimated | 81.46 | +1.9% |
| 98 | Grenada Estimated | 81.07 | +2.6% |
| 99 | Lebanon Estimated | 80.56 | -2.4% |
| 100 | South Africa Estimated | 79.84 | +0.2% |
| 101 | Peru Estimated | 79.49 | +1.2% |
| 102 | Syria Estimated | 78.66 | -0.8% |
| 103 | Vanuatu Estimated | 77.95 | +1.4% |
| 104 | Costa Rica Estimated | 77.67 | +0.6% |
| 105 | Belize Estimated | 77.45 | -0.4% |
| 106 | Slovakia Estimated | 77.13 | +4.5% |
| 107 | Jordan Estimated | 76.68 | +0.2% |
| 108 | Ethiopia Estimated | 76.59 | +2.4% |
| 109 | Burkina Faso Estimated | 75.95 | -1.2% |
| 110 | Cameroon Estimated | 75.9 | +0.4% |
| 111 | El Salvador Estimated | 75.44 | +0.1% |
| 112 | Cape Verde Estimated | 75.13 | +3.3% |
| 113 | Kiribati Estimated | 74.9 | -1% |
| 114 | Laos Estimated | 74.73 | +5% |
| 115 | Paraguay Estimated | 71.71 | +9.4% |
| 116 | Colombia Estimated | 71.54 | +1.9% |
| 117 | Suriname Estimated | 71.52 | +1% |
| 118 | Indonesia Estimated | 71.46 | +0.9% |
| 119 | Ecuador Estimated | 71 | +0.5% |
| 120 | Nepal Estimated | 70.76 | +1.9% |
| 121 | Bolivia Estimated | 70.22 | -1% |
| 122 | Djibouti Estimated | 69.53 | +1.3% |
| 123 | Fiji Estimated | 69.03 | -4.5% |
| 124 | Iraq Estimated | 68.47 | +1.3% |
| 125 | Pakistan Estimated | 67.16 | +3.1% |
| 126 | Botswana Estimated | 67.14 | -7.1% |
| 127 | Namibia Estimated | 66.82 | -1.2% |
| 128 | Sri Lanka Estimated | 66.06 | +3.5% |
| 129 | Tajikistan Estimated | 66 | +2.6% |
| 130 | Philippines Estimated | 65.81 | -0.4% |
| 131 | Thailand Estimated | 65.69 | -0.8% |
| 132 | Guatemala Estimated | 65.44 | -1.2% |
| 133 | Ghana Estimated | 65.05 | -1.9% |
| 134 | Papua New Guinea Estimated | 64.59 | -0.6% |
| 135 | Cambodia Estimated | 63.93 | -0.2% |
| 136 | Nicaragua Estimated | 63.41 | -0.2% |
| 137 | Afghanistan Estimated | 63.24 | +0.9% |
| 138 | Dominican Republic Estimated | 62.78 | -0.1% |
| 139 | Comoros Estimated | 62.63 | +3.1% |
| 140 | India Estimated | 62.48 | +2.9% |
| 141 | Malawi Estimated | 62.35 | +0.2% |
| 142 | Lesotho Estimated | 61.7 | -7.9% |
| 143 | Timor-Leste Estimated | 61.11 | -2.8% |
| 144 | Senegal Estimated | 60.12 | -2.2% |
| 145 | Zimbabwe Estimated | 60.09 | -1.2% |
| 146 | Nigeria Estimated | 59.8 | -0.8% |
| 147 | Kenya Estimated | 59.13 | -2.1% |
| 148 | North Korea Estimated | 58.94 | -2.4% |
| 149 | Rwanda Estimated | 58.7 | +0.3% |
| 150 | Yemen Estimated | 58.53 | -3.5% |
| 151 | Honduras Estimated | 58.35 | -0.5% |
| 152 | Tanzania Estimated | 58.33 | +2% |
| 153 | Uganda Estimated | 57.93 | -1.3% |
| 154 | Eswatini Estimated | 57.9 | +7.5% |
| 155 | Gambia Estimated | 57.88 | -2.3% |
| 156 | Sierra Leone Estimated | 57.59 | +0.7% |
| 157 | Solomon Islands Estimated | 57.44 | -2.7% |
| 158 | Bangladesh Estimated | 57.2 | +0.7% |
| 159 | Côte d’Ivoire Estimated | 57.16 | -2.1% |
| 160 | São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated | 55.47 | +0.4% |
| 161 | Guinea Estimated | 54.86 | +3% |
| 162 | Angola Estimated | 54.06 | +2.6% |
| 163 | Zambia Estimated | 52.07 | +2.5% |
| 164 | Haiti Estimated | 49.81 | +0.6% |
| 165 | Guinea-Bissau Estimated | 48.64 | +2.8% |
| 166 | Republic of the Congo Estimated | 46.99 | +8.6% |
| 167 | Mozambique Estimated | 46.02 | -6.6% |
| 168 | Madagascar Estimated | 42.17 | -1% |
| 169 | Liberia Estimated | 39.47 | +1.8% |
| 170 | Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated | 29.64 | -1.5% |
Other periods
About this ranking
Protein available for human consumption, in grams, 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 2013 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.
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Which country has the highest protein supply per person?
Iceland, with 136.91 grams per person per day in 2013, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Which country has the lowest protein supply per person?
Democratic Republic of the Congo, with 29.64 grams per person per day in 2013.
Where does this ranking come from?
Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Food Balances: Food Balances (2010-) (FBS): Grand Total, protein supply quantity, g/capita/day (item 2901, element 674). Retrieved 2026-10-12. 8 countries have no value for 2013 and are not ranked.