Countries by protein supply per person

Iceland had the highest protein supply per person of 170 countries in 2015, at 148.17 grams per person per day. Democratic Republic of the Congo had the lowest, at 30.14 grams per person per day. The median was 88.69 grams per person per day and the figure for the World was 86.93 grams per person per day. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest148.17Iceland

Lowest30.14Democratic Republic of the Congo

Median88.69170 countries

World86.93History

Map of countries, 2015

Under 61
61 to 76
76 to 87
87 to 97
97 to 110
110 and over
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grams per person per day, 2015. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Food Balances: Food Balances (2010-) (FBS): Grand Total, protein supply quantity, g/capita/day (item 2901, element 674). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2015

grams per person per day. Source: FAOSTAT, Food Balances: Food Balances (2010-) (FBS): Grand Total, protein supply quantity, g/capita/day (item 2901, element 674). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2015 grams per person per day	Change on 2014
1	Iceland Estimated	148.17	+2.4%
2	Hong Kong Estimated	135.96	-3.1%
3	Israel Estimated	128.21	+0.9%
4	Norway Estimated	125.55	+0.8%
5	Denmark Estimated	123.03	+3.3%
6	Lithuania Estimated	122.37	+1%
7	Finland Estimated	119.78	-0.2%
8	Australia Estimated	119.6	+0.4%
9	Serbia Estimated	119.47	+1.1%
10	Macao Estimated	118.06	-1.5%
11	Montenegro Estimated	118	+3%
12	United States Estimated	117.58	+0.7%
13	Ireland Estimated	117.55	+6%
14	Portugal Estimated	117.18	+1.2%
15	Maldives Estimated	116.79	-0.7%
16	Malta Estimated	116.28	-3.3%
17	China Estimated	115.58	+1.8%
18	France Estimated	115.39	+1%
19	Luxembourg Estimated	114.45	-0.8%
20	Albania Estimated	113.28	+1.8%
21	Romania Estimated	113.06	+3.8%
22	Sweden Estimated	112.31	-0.6%
23	Russia Estimated	112.24	-0.2%
24	Italy Estimated	111.98	-1%
25	Kuwait Estimated	111.72	-0.5%
26	Germany Estimated	110.82	+0.7%
27	Netherlands Estimated	110.75	-0.1%
28	Argentina Estimated	110.69	+5.5%
29	French Polynesia Estimated	110.57	-0%
30	Poland Estimated	110.29	+0.6%
31	United Kingdom Estimated	109.98	+2.1%
32	Spain Estimated	109.02	+0.5%
33	Austria Estimated	108.12	+0.3%
34	Armenia Estimated	107.61	+2.2%
35	Estonia Estimated	107.57	+1.4%
36	Türkiye Estimated	107.55	+1.9%
37	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	107.35	+9.7%
38	Canada Estimated	106.57	-0.9%
39	Greece Estimated	106.46	-2.5%
40	Mongolia Estimated	106.03	+8.3%
41	Bosnia and Herzegovina Estimated	106.01	+5.1%
42	Latvia Estimated	105.42	+0.9%
42	Samoa Estimated	105.42	+3.4%
44	Slovenia Estimated	105.39	-1.4%
45	Barbados Estimated	104.67	+2.8%
46	Uzbekistan Estimated	103.71	+2%
47	South Korea Estimated	103.52	-0.1%
48	Brazil Estimated	103.49	-1.2%
49	Turkmenistan Estimated	102.32	-1.5%
50	Morocco Estimated	101.79	+1%
51	Tunisia Estimated	101.76	-0.2%
52	Saudi Arabia Estimated	101.26	+0.2%
53	Guyana Estimated	101.11	+8.7%
54	Belarus Estimated	100.85	-2.7%
55	New Zealand Estimated	100.79	-2.4%
56	Saint Lucia Estimated	100.51	+0.6%
57	Switzerland Estimated	100.47	-0.1%
58	Belgium Estimated	100.01	-0.3%
59	Myanmar Estimated	98	+2.6%
60	Chile Estimated	96.88	+1.3%
61	Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated	96.63	+1.1%
62	Cyprus Estimated	96.53	+0.1%
63	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	95.96	-3.4%
64	Bahamas Estimated	95.95	+0.5%
65	Gabon Estimated	95.89	+2.5%
66	Czechia Estimated	95.39	+0.7%
67	Taiwan Estimated	95.3	+1.7%
68	Croatia Estimated	95.26	+4.3%
69	Algeria Estimated	93.81	-0.1%
70	Oman Estimated	93.75	-0.4%
71	Mauritius Estimated	93.68	+0.1%
72	Mexico Estimated	93.65	+0.4%
73	Uruguay Estimated	93.43	-4.2%
74	Seychelles Estimated	93.26	+12.7%
75	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	93.21	+1.8%
76	United Arab Emirates Estimated	92.94	-1.2%
77	Azerbaijan Estimated	92.25	+1.7%
78	Malaysia Estimated	92.23	+0.7%
79	Egypt Estimated	92.16	-0.1%
80	New Caledonia Estimated	92.15	-2.9%
81	Cuba Estimated	91.65	-2.7%
82	Libya Estimated	91.31	+0.1%
83	Ukraine Estimated	91.13	+0.5%
84	North Macedonia Estimated	91.11	+3.6%
85	Hungary Estimated	88.7	+2.7%
86	Moldova Estimated	88.67	+0.5%
87	Niger Estimated	87.6	+1.9%
88	Kazakhstan Estimated	87.15	+1.7%
89	Bulgaria Estimated	87.07	-3.7%
90	Vietnam Estimated	86.03	+1.1%
91	Kyrgyzstan Estimated	85.87	-1.7%
92	Mauritania Estimated	85.82	-0.2%
93	Iran Estimated	85.04	-1.6%
94	Georgia Estimated	84.18	+0.4%
95	Panama Estimated	83.9	-0.6%
96	Jamaica Estimated	83.46	+0.6%
97	Peru Estimated	83.23	+1.3%
98	Grenada Estimated	81.52	+2.8%
99	Laos Estimated	81.45	+0.5%
100	South Africa Estimated	79.89	-1.6%
101	Ethiopia Estimated	79.84	+4.2%
102	Bolivia Estimated	79.64	+11.6%
103	El Salvador Estimated	79.14	-0.7%
104	Cape Verde Estimated	79.13	+7.4%
105	Belize Estimated	78.68	+1.5%
106	Kiribati Estimated	78.38	+4.7%
107	Vanuatu Estimated	78.34	+0.3%
108	Lebanon Estimated	78.26	-2.7%
109	Sri Lanka Estimated	78.12	+17.5%
110	Costa Rica Estimated	78.09	-0.2%
111	Colombia Estimated	77.14	+3%
112	Djibouti Estimated	76.33	+5%
113	Syria Estimated	76.15	-1.2%
114	Jordan Estimated	75.7	-0.3%
115	Cameroon Estimated	75.51	+0.7%
116	Indonesia Estimated	75.5	+2.8%
117	Burkina Faso Estimated	75.16	-0.6%
118	Slovakia Estimated	73.93	-5.6%
119	Nepal Estimated	73.46	+1.4%
120	Fiji Estimated	71.87	-1%
121	Tajikistan Estimated	71.2	+6.8%
122	Ecuador Estimated	69.91	-1.5%
123	Venezuela Estimated	69.83	-19%
124	Guatemala Estimated	69.55	+2.8%
125	Philippines Estimated	68.44	+0.9%
126	Suriname Estimated	68.31	-2.3%
127	Paraguay Estimated	67.81	-4.3%
128	Pakistan Estimated	67.78	+4.3%
129	Dominican Republic Estimated	67.62	+2.7%
130	Thailand Estimated	67.28	+1.2%
131	Namibia Estimated	67.16	+1.3%
132	Botswana Estimated	66.59	+1.2%
133	Iraq Estimated	66.33	+1.3%
134	Papua New Guinea Estimated	65.84	-0.9%
135	Nicaragua Estimated	64.44	-2.2%
136	Afghanistan Estimated	63.93	-2.5%
137	India Estimated	63.13	-0.8%
138	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	62.94	+6.6%
139	Ghana Estimated	62.44	-2.5%
140	Timor-Leste Estimated	62.38	+0.2%
141	Malawi Estimated	62.31	+4.2%
142	Comoros Estimated	62.26	-0.9%
143	Kenya Estimated	61.03	+1%
144	Senegal Estimated	60.9	+2.2%
145	Gambia Estimated	60.44	+0.4%
146	Nigeria Estimated	60.04	-1.9%
147	Cambodia Estimated	60.02	-1.8%
148	Bangladesh Estimated	59.52	+3%
149	Tanzania Estimated	58.71	-1.1%
150	North Korea Estimated	58.64	-1.1%
151	Honduras Estimated	58.49	+3.6%
152	Eswatini Estimated	56.83	-2.8%
153	Solomon Islands Estimated	56.82	-4.5%
154	Rwanda Estimated	56.39	-3.4%
155	Zimbabwe Estimated	56.34	+1.9%
156	Lesotho Estimated	56.13	-5.2%
157	Sierra Leone Estimated	55.69	-1.3%
158	Uganda Estimated	55.53	-7.3%
159	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	54.98	-1.3%
160	Angola Estimated	53.94	-9.6%
161	Zambia Estimated	53.2	+2.3%
162	Yemen Estimated	52.91	-8.8%
163	Guinea Estimated	52.87	-2.8%
164	Haiti Estimated	52.32	+2%
165	Republic of the Congo Estimated	48.67	+1.4%
166	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	45.07	+2.2%
167	Liberia Estimated	41.76	-0.8%
168	Mozambique Estimated	41.66	-4.6%
169	Madagascar Estimated	41.48	-0.8%
170	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	30.14	-1.8%

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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 2015 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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Iceland, with 148.17 grams per person per day in 2015, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo, with 30.14 grams per person per day in 2015.

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