Dataset · FAO
Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric Consumption
24 years, 2001–2024 · 164 countries
This measures how unevenly the calories people habitually eat are spread across a country's population. It is one of the two numbers FAO uses to estimate how many people are undernourished: the same national food supply leaves more people short when it is shared less evenly.
This site holds every year from 2001 to 2024, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric Consumption · the file
- Newest
- Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric Consumption, 2024
- Held
- 24 years · 3,966 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0124 years
Every year
Every year comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
Show all 24 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: calorie-consumption-variation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 164 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 164 | 0 | |
Coefficient of variation of habitual calorie consumptioncalorie_variationHeadline | The headline figure: Coefficient of variation of habitual calorie consumption across the population (standard deviation ÷ mean). | Number · up to 2 decimals | 0.173 share it0.404 share itmiddle 0.25 | 24 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.
03167 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 50 | 50 | 49 | 49 | 49 |
| Americas | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 29 | 29 |
| Asia | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Europe | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 |
| Oceania | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| All | 166 | 166 | 166 | 166 | 166 | 166 | 165 | 166 | 166 | 165 | 164 | 164 |
The newest 12 of 24 years.
− Nicaragua
− Sudan
+ South Sudan
− North KoreaNot in this dataset · 58 places this site covers
FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bermuda
Bhutan
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Burundi
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Hong Kong
Isle of Man
Kosovo
Lesotho
Liechtenstein
Macau
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
Nauru
New Caledonia
NiueNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Palestine
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
San Marino
Singapore
Sint Maarten
SlovakiaSomaliland
Tonga
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City
Yemen04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2 · Their file
Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric Consumption 2024
3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
24 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as calorie-consumption-variation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
FAOSTAT's Suite of Food Security Indicators, read from FAO's own bulk download. It is a parameter of FAO's model of undernourishment, published alongside it.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked October 3, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric Consumption, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric Consumption, 2001–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/calorie-consumption-variation
The publisher’s own citation: FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: Suite of Food Security Indicators. Accessed on 3 October 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/FS Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric Consumption by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Gini IndexWorld Bank Group · 22 held · 2002–2023
- Poverty Gap at $3.00 a DayWorld Bank Group · 22 held · 2002–2023
- Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy DietFAO · 9 held · 2017–2025
07Questions
Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric Consumption: questions and answers
What is the Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric Consumption?
This measures how unevenly the calories people habitually eat are spread across a country's population. It is one of the two numbers FAO uses to estimate how many people are undernourished: the same national food supply leaves more people short when it is shared less evenly.
Which years of the Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric Consumption can I download?
All 24, from 2001 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does FAO rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to FAO. The licence text is linked on this page.