Countries by protein supply per person

Iceland had the highest protein supply per person of 170 countries in 2017, at 152.54 grams per person per day. Democratic Republic of the Congo had the lowest, at 29.6 grams per person per day. The median was 91.09 grams per person per day and the figure for the World was 88.57 grams per person per day. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest152.54Iceland

Lowest29.6Democratic Republic of the Congo

Median91.09170 countries

World88.57History

Map of countries, 2017

Under 62
62 to 75
75 to 89
89 to 99
99 to 110
110 and over
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grams per person per day, 2017. 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, 2017

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	2017 grams per person per day	Change on 2016
1	Iceland Estimated	152.54	+2.9%
2	Hong Kong Estimated	148.15	+3.3%
3	Israel Estimated	130.82	+0.3%
4	Lithuania Estimated	126.7	+0.9%
5	Norway Estimated	126.5	+1.9%
6	Ireland Estimated	126.04	+6.9%
7	Montenegro Estimated	123.89	+1.1%
8	Denmark Estimated	123.4	-0.3%
9	Macao Estimated	122.24	+5.8%
10	Finland Estimated	120.93	+0.6%
11	Serbia Estimated	120.91	+1.3%
12	Portugal Estimated	119.61	+1.7%
13	United States Estimated	119.21	+0.5%
14	China Estimated	118.86	+0.9%
15	France Estimated	118.11	+1.4%
16	Australia Estimated	117.43	-2.5%
17	Malta Estimated	117.41	+0.5%
18	Albania Estimated	116.34	+0.5%
19	Poland Estimated	114.14	+0.9%
20	Romania Estimated	113.72	-0.1%
21	Canada Estimated	113.57	+1.9%
22	Italy Estimated	112.71	+1.5%
23	Russia Estimated	112.56	+1.5%
24	Luxembourg Estimated	111.79	-1.2%
25	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	111.59	-0.8%
26	United Kingdom Estimated	110.61	-0.4%
27	Spain Estimated	110.2	-0.4%
28	Sweden Estimated	109.91	-0.5%
29	Argentina Estimated	109.78	+1.6%
30	Germany Estimated	108.84	-0.5%
31	Latvia Estimated	108.27	-0.9%
32	Kuwait Estimated	108	-0.4%
33	Austria Estimated	107.81	-1.7%
34	French Polynesia Estimated	107.45	-0.9%
35	Türkiye Estimated	107.29	+1.7%
36	South Korea Estimated	106.98	+2.4%
37	Samoa Estimated	106.88	-4.9%
38	Estonia Estimated	106.54	-1.6%
39	Mongolia Estimated	106.31	-0.2%
40	Bosnia and Herzegovina Estimated	106.23	-0.8%
41	Slovenia Estimated	106.13	-0.8%
42	Greece Estimated	105.55	+0.3%
43	Armenia Estimated	105.43	-1.7%
44	Netherlands Estimated	104.74	-5.1%
45	Maldives Estimated	104.61	-12.3%
46	Brazil Estimated	104.43	+1.2%
47	Turkmenistan Estimated	104.26	+1%
48	Barbados Estimated	103.47	0%
49	Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated	103.06	+2%
50	Uzbekistan Estimated	102.2	-2.3%
51	Morocco Estimated	101.8	+0.1%
52	Belarus Estimated	101.29	+0.1%
53	Tunisia Estimated	101.26	-0.8%
54	Saint Lucia Estimated	100.98	-0%
55	Chile Estimated	100.96	+0.7%
56	Croatia Estimated	100.2	+1.8%
57	Myanmar Estimated	99.8	+0.9%
58	Cuba Estimated	99.73	-0%
59	Belgium Estimated	99.66	-2.5%
60	Switzerland Estimated	99.64	+0.2%
61	Saudi Arabia Estimated	99	-2%
62	New Zealand Estimated	98.72	-5.8%
63	Guyana Estimated	98.43	+0.4%
64	Seychelles Estimated	97.85	+0.3%
65	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	95.42	+13.7%
66	Mexico Estimated	95.34	+0.7%
67	Cyprus Estimated	95.27	-0.1%
68	Czechia Estimated	95.19	-1.7%
69	Azerbaijan Estimated	95.09	+2.5%
70	Mauritius Estimated	94.41	+1.1%
71	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	94.34	+0.1%
72	North Macedonia Estimated	94.15	+2.3%
73	New Caledonia Estimated	94.14	+0.5%
74	Oman Estimated	93.81	+2.9%
75	Kazakhstan Estimated	93.68	+4.6%
76	Taiwan Estimated	93.4	-1%
77	Ukraine Estimated	92.96	-0.1%
78	Moldova Estimated	92.63	-0.2%
79	Uruguay Estimated	92.53	+2.8%
80	Bahamas Estimated	92.13	-2.5%
81	Egypt Estimated	91.88	+2%
82	Malaysia Estimated	91.86	-0.5%
83	Grenada Estimated	91.69	+0.8%
84	Hungary Estimated	91.64	+1.2%
85	Algeria Estimated	91.18	-1.7%
86	Bulgaria Estimated	90.99	+0.5%
87	United Arab Emirates Estimated	89.8	-1.8%
88	Vietnam Estimated	88.83	+1.8%
89	Niger Estimated	88.7	-1.8%
90	Gabon Estimated	88.16	-1.2%
91	Panama Estimated	85.57	+0.2%
92	Kyrgyzstan Estimated	85.26	-0.1%
93	Georgia Estimated	84.08	+2.7%
94	Peru Estimated	84.06	+1.3%
95	Libya Estimated	84.02	-4.9%
96	Iran Estimated	83.93	-2.7%
97	Mauritania Estimated	83.87	-1.7%
98	Jamaica Estimated	83.85	+2.4%
99	Cape Verde Estimated	83.42	+4.9%
100	Costa Rica Estimated	82.47	+1.3%
101	Lebanon Estimated	81.12	+3.7%
102	Vanuatu Estimated	80.84	+2.1%
103	Indonesia Estimated	80.78	+6.2%
104	Bolivia Estimated	80.59	+1.9%
105	Ethiopia Estimated	80.27	+0.8%
106	El Salvador Estimated	80.2	-0.1%
107	Kiribati Estimated	79.84	+0.6%
108	South Africa Estimated	79.5	-1.6%
109	Laos Estimated	78.64	-3.4%
110	Colombia Estimated	78.48	+1.5%
111	Belize Estimated	77.48	-4.2%
112	Nepal Estimated	77.42	+1.9%
113	Tajikistan Estimated	76.54	+4.3%
114	Fiji Estimated	75.92	+11.7%
115	Slovakia Estimated	75.71	-1.6%
116	Paraguay Estimated	74.12	+8.2%
117	Cameroon Estimated	73.75	-2.7%
118	Burkina Faso Estimated	73.04	-2.3%
119	Jordan Estimated	72.4	-4.4%
120	Djibouti Estimated	72.33	-2.5%
121	Sri Lanka Estimated	71.82	-0.3%
122	Philippines Estimated	71.67	+2.5%
123	Dominican Republic Estimated	71.56	+1.6%
123	Iraq Estimated	71.56	+4.8%
125	Guatemala Estimated	71.08	+1.7%
126	Syria Estimated	71	-3.6%
127	Pakistan Estimated	69.95	+5%
128	Suriname Estimated	68.45	-0.5%
129	Namibia Estimated	67.45	+0.4%
130	Ecuador Estimated	67.13	-0.6%
131	India Estimated	66.78	+2.7%
132	Nicaragua Estimated	66.7	+0.7%
133	Thailand Estimated	66.4	-0.8%
134	Papua New Guinea Estimated	66.25	-0.2%
135	Timor-Leste Estimated	65.68	+3.9%
136	Afghanistan Estimated	65.33	+0.8%
137	Comoros Estimated	64.9	-1.4%
138	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	64.44	+3.2%
139	Botswana Estimated	64.1	-4%
140	Malawi Estimated	63.94	+1.9%
140	Senegal Estimated	63.94	+2.8%
142	Ghana Estimated	63.17	+4.3%
143	Nigeria Estimated	61.89	+1.6%
144	Cambodia Estimated	61.58	+2.2%
145	Gambia Estimated	61.4	-2.1%
146	Bangladesh Estimated	61.19	+2.9%
147	Honduras Estimated	60.2	+0.1%
148	Lesotho Estimated	60.18	+6.2%
149	Rwanda Estimated	59.79	+1.3%
150	Kenya Estimated	58.87	-1.4%
151	Tanzania Estimated	58.74	-0.6%
152	North Korea Estimated	58.42	+0.8%
153	Venezuela Estimated	58.38	+1.4%
154	Eswatini Estimated	58.34	-0.7%
155	Zimbabwe Estimated	57.78	+0.4%
156	Solomon Islands Estimated	56.96	+2.3%
157	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	56.11	+13.9%
158	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	54.79	-2.1%
159	Sierra Leone Estimated	54.42	+1.7%
160	Guinea Estimated	53.76	-0.2%
161	Republic of the Congo Estimated	52.98	+10.2%
162	Angola Estimated	52.91	+4.2%
163	Haiti Estimated	52.45	+0.2%
164	Zambia Estimated	52.2	-1.5%
165	Uganda Estimated	49.77	+5%
166	Yemen Estimated	49.03	+0.7%
167	Liberia Estimated	44.91	+2.7%
168	Mozambique Estimated	42.97	+5.6%
169	Madagascar Estimated	41.5	-0.5%
170	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	29.6	+1%

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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 2017 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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Iceland, with 152.54 grams per person per day in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo, with 29.6 grams per person per day in 2017.

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