Freshwater Fish — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) by country

A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply...

Countries reporting
164
Highest
64.25 kcal/cap/d
Myanmar
Lowest
0.02 kcal/cap/d
Sao Tome and Principe
Median
3.97 kcal/cap/d
Years covered
14
2010–2023
Data points
2,886

What the numbers show

Freshwater Fish — Food supply (kcal/capita/day) is currently reported for 164 countries. The highest value is 64.25 kcal/cap/d in Myanmar; the lowest is 0.02 kcal/cap/d in Sao Tome and Principe.

The median across all reporting countries is 3.97 kcal/cap/d, and the mean is 7.2 kcal/cap/d.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3,212.

Over the past decade 86 countries rose and 71 fell. The largest increase was in Honduras (up 864.7%), and the largest decrease in Sao Tome and Principe (down 96.2%).

Freshwater Fish — Food supply: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Myanmar 64.25 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 1.7% rising
2 Cambodia 61.59 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 10.1% falling
3 Bangladesh 46.26 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 26.5% rising
4 China, mainland 38.45 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 9.3% rising
5 China 37.98 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 9.1% rising
6 Indonesia 37.6 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 26.4% rising
7 Uganda 31.01 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 11.4% rising
8 Norway 28.82 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 97.3% rising
9 Finland 25.73 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 5.5% flat
10 China, Macao SAR 25.54 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 10.3% rising
11 Egypt 25.15 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 0.4% rising
12 China, Hong Kong SAR 24.58 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 21.5% flat
13 Israel 20.6 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 30.8% rising
14 Iceland 20.38 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 113.4% rising
15 Thailand 17.63 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 6.7% flat
16 Malawi 16.61 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 14.3% rising
17 Philippines 16.54 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 0.8% flat
18 Zambia 15.26 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 4.9% rising
19 India 14.8 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 72.1% rising
20 China, Taiwan Province of 14.28 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 3.6% rising
21 Sweden 13.77 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 17.7% falling
22 Congo 13.57 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 6.6% flat
23 Gabon 13.45 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 1.1% falling
24 Russian Federation 12.88 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 4.6% flat
25 Malaysia 12.86 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 12.6% falling
26 Luxembourg 12.11 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 0.1% rising
27 Belgium 11.23 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 4.9% rising
28 Costa Rica 11.16 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 11.7% rising
29 Ghana 10.9 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 18.2% rising
30 Bahrain 10.43 kcal/cap/d 2023 falling
31 Canada 10.41 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 3.8% rising
32 Uzbekistan 10.38 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 277.5% volatile
33 United Arab Emirates 10.24 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 23.0% rising
34 Colombia 10.12 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 54.3% rising
35 Paraguay 10.07 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 19.3% rising
36 Switzerland 9.72 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 4.0% flat
37 Brazil 9.33 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 13.2% rising
38 Sri Lanka 9.12 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 48.5% rising
39 Nepal 8.89 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 98.9% rising
40 Qatar 8.71 kcal/cap/d 2023 falling
41 France 8.53 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 0.9% flat
42 Australia 8.5 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 4.7% rising
43 Slovak Republic 8.28 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 65.3% rising
44 Latvia 8.22 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 38.4% rising
45 Germany 8.08 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 10.5% rising
46 Australia and New Zealand 8 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 5.3% rising
47 Mexico 7.36 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 28.4% rising
48 Austria 7.31 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 3.1% rising
49 Italy 7.15 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 31.0% rising
50 Portugal 7.1 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 22.0% rising
51 Armenia 6.95 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 3.6% rising
52 Ukraine 6.78 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 48.7% rising
53 Honduras 6.56 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 864.7% volatile
54 Czechia 6.55 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 8.1% rising
55 Mozambique 6.53 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 9.9% rising
56 Mauritania 6.39 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 26.0% falling
57 Saudi Arabia 6.18 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 27.5% falling
58 Guinea 6.04 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 63.7% rising
59 Hungary 6.01 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 15.8% rising
60 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 5.99 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 2.3% falling
61 Rwanda 5.89 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 43.7% rising
62 Nigeria 5.78 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 19.3% falling
63 Bhutan 5.67 kcal/cap/d 2023 rising
64 Ireland 5.63 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 42.5% rising
65 New Zealand 5.45 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 12.1% rising
66 North Macedonia 5.26 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 121.9% rising
67 Malta 5 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 3.5% falling
68 Belarus 4.91 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 28.5% falling
69 Spain 4.81 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 20.6% falling
69 Serbia 4.81 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 13.2% falling
71 Cyprus 4.69 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 40.6% falling
72 Peru 4.57 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 6.0% flat
73 Kenya 4.47 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 34.6% falling
74 Turkmenistan 4.43 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 18.6% falling
75 Bulgaria 4.22 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 10.4% rising
76 Romania 4.19 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 29.7% rising
77 Republic of Korea 4.18 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 58.9% rising
78 Slovenia 4.11 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 3.5% rising
79 Kuwait 4.1 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 2.4% flat
80 Cuba 4.06 kcal/cap/d 2019 down 25.9% falling
81 Barbados 4.01 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 133.1% rising
82 Estonia 4 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 41.8% rising
83 Bahamas 3.94 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 100.0% rising
84 French Polynesia 3.89 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 57.5% rising
85 Iraq 3.68 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 30.7% falling
86 Saint Kitts and Nevis 3.6 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 48.8% rising
87 Niger 3.55 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 32.9% falling
88 Montenegro 3.5 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 43.1% falling
89 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 3.37 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 39.5% falling
90 Albania 3.33 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 129.7% rising
90 Marshall Islands 3.33 kcal/cap/d 2023 rising
92 Dominican Republic 3.23 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 139.3% volatile
93 Zimbabwe 3.22 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 56.4% falling
94 Panama 3.02 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 71.6% rising
95 Croatia 3.01 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 13.2% falling
96 Suriname 2.99 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 68.0% rising
97 Papua New Guinea 2.83 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 19.8% falling
98 Denmark 2.81 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 0.7% falling
99 Georgia 2.79 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 9.4% rising
100 El Salvador 2.75 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 139.1% rising
101 Kazakhstan 2.74 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 18.5% falling
102 Maldives 2.73 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 145.9% volatile
103 Cameroon 2.72 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 42.7% falling
104 Senegal 2.66 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 44.8% falling
105 Mauritius 2.59 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 121.4% rising
106 Guatemala 2.55 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 116.1% rising
106 Namibia 2.55 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 56.4% rising
108 Burkina Faso 2.54 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 22.1% rising
109 Sierra Leone 2.53 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 26.9% falling
110 Jamaica 2.5 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 71.2% rising
111 Oman 2.36 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 223.3% volatile
112 Antigua and Barbuda 2.33 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 23.9% rising
113 Lithuania 2.24 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 53.0% falling
114 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.97 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 6.6% falling
114 Uruguay 1.97 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 5.7% rising
116 New Caledonia 1.96 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 81.5% rising
117 Chile 1.91 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 73.6% rising
118 Greece 1.87 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 37.0% falling
119 Pakistan 1.86 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 26.2% falling
120 Poland 1.69 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 51.3% falling
121 Angola 1.59 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 3.6% falling
122 Ecuador 1.44 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 32.1% falling
123 Kyrgyzstan 1.37 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 168.6% volatile
124 Azerbaijan 1.36 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 51.1% rising
125 Jordan 1.33 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 21.3% rising
126 Trinidad and Tobago 1.31 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 13.8% rising
127 Gambia 1.25 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 72.7% volatile
128 Lebanon 1.13 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 66.4% falling
129 Ethiopia 0.99 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 26.9% rising
129 Seychelles 0.99 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 51.2% falling
131 Saint Lucia 0.94 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 16.0% volatile
132 Tajikistan 0.93 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 121.4% rising
133 Morocco 0.92 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 5.2% rising
134 Guyana 0.83 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 58.3% falling
135 Argentina 0.82 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 115.8% rising
136 Fiji 0.8 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 233.3% volatile
136 Liberia 0.8 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 31.6% falling
138 Lesotho 0.75 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 38.9% volatile
139 Afghanistan 0.69 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 81.6% rising
140 Madagascar 0.68 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 71.2% falling
141 Grenada 0.61 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 190.5% volatile
142 Nicaragua 0.59 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 47.5% rising
143 Samoa 0.55 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 32.9% volatile
144 South Africa 0.5 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 31.6% rising
145 Eswatini 0.44 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 38.0% falling
146 Haiti 0.43 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 54.7% falling
147 Tunisia 0.33 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 22.2% rising
148 Belize 0.27 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 34.1% volatile
148 Botswana 0.27 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 61.4% volatile
150 Tuvalu 0.24 kcal/cap/d 2023 falling
151 Vanuatu 0.19 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 75.3% volatile
152 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.18 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 50.0% rising
153 Tonga 0.17 kcal/cap/d 2023 flat
154 Djibouti 0.13 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 550.0% volatile
154 Algeria 0.13 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 83.8% volatile
156 Yemen 0.1 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 400.0% volatile
157 Nauru 0.09 kcal/cap/d 2023 rising
158 Comoros 0.07 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 66.7% volatile
158 Guinea-Bissau 0.07 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 63.2% falling
158 Mongolia 0.07 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 250.0% volatile
161 Kiribati 0.06 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 87.8% volatile
161 Libya 0.06 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 78.6% volatile
163 Solomon Islands 0.05 kcal/cap/d 2023 up 150.0% volatile
164 Sao Tome and Principe 0.02 kcal/cap/d 2023 down 96.2% volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Freshwater Fish — Food supply (kcal/capita/day)
Unit
kcal/cap/d
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
213 places, 2,886 data points, 2010–2023
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A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.