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Dietary Energy Supply

24 years, 2001–2024 · 155 countries · 2 measures

This is how many calories a day are available per person in a country's food supply, with protein availability beside it. Unlike a hunger count it applies everywhere, so it describes rich and poor countries on the same scale.

This site holds every year from 2001 to 2024, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Newest
Dietary Energy Supply, 2024
Held
24 years · 3,750 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.

2001bar height: countries covered, up to 1572024
Every year of Dietary Energy Supply held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Dietary Energy Supply, 2024Newest155±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2023155−1September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2022156−1September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2021157±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2020157+1September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2019156−1September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2018157±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2017157±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2016157±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2015157±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2014157±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2013157+1September 11, 2026CSV
Show all 24 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Dietary Energy Supply, 2012156±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2011156±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2010156±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2009156±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2008156±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2007156±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2006156±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2005156±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2004156±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2003156±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2002156±0September 11, 2026CSV
Dietary Energy Supply, 2001156—September 11, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: dietary-energy-supply-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

025 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.

Every column in the newest file of Dietary Energy Supply: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1550
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1550
Dietary energy supply (kcal per person per day)dietary_energy_supplyHeadlineThe headline figure: Dietary energy supply (kcal per person per day).Number · whole numbers1,757Somalia3,962United Statesmiddle 2,9821500
Protein supply (g per person per day)protein_supplyMeasureAverage protein available per person each day in the food supply, in grams, as a three-year average.Number · whole numbers—0155
Supply as a share of requirement (%)adequacyMeasureDietary energy supply as a percentage of the average dietary energy requirement, so above 100 means more calories available than needed.Number · whole numbers80Somalia163Israelmiddle 126560

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 better result.

03158 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.

All regions
Countries in each year of Dietary Energy Supply, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa474747474747474848474747
Americas292929292929292929292828
Asia353535353535343434343434
Europe383838383838383838383838
Oceania888888888888
All157157157157157157156157157156155155

The newest 12 of 24 years.

Who joined and who left

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

  2. 2 · Their file

    Dietary Energy Supply 2024

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 11, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    24 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as dietary-energy-supply-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/dietary-energy-supplyA key for Food & Agriculture in the Country Index.

Precision

The headline is stored in whole numbers, 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 the FAO's own bulk download.

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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 11, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • 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), Dietary Energy Supply, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Dietary Energy Supply, 2001–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/dietary-energy-supply

The publisher’s own citation: FAO. FAOSTAT. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Dietary Energy Supply: questions and answers

What is the Dietary Energy Supply?

This is how many calories a day are available per person in a country's food supply, with protein availability beside it. Unlike a hunger count it applies everywhere, so it describes rich and poor countries on the same scale.

Which years of the Dietary Energy Supply 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. FAO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to FAO. The licence text is linked on this page.

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