Dietary Energy Supply 2021

Report year 2021·Data year 2021

Dietary energy supply (kcal per person per day)·Higher is better — rank 1 leads·Published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

24 reference years (2001–2024), covering 155 to 157 countries, from FAOSTAT's Suite of Food Security Indicators, with protein availability and supply-against-requirement stored beside it. It is a nutrition measure that works for rich and poor countries alike, because it is not a count of deprivation. ⚠ IT IS SUPPLY, NOT INTAKE: it measures the food available at retail, before household waste and before any question of who within a country gets it. A country can have an ample supply and widespread hunger, which is precisely why undernourishment is measured separately. ⚠ MORE IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER — a supply far above requirement is over-nutrition rather than achievement — but the bottom of this table is where the meaning is, which is why a higher figure sorts first. ⚠ A THREE-YEAR AVERAGE, labelled by the MIDDLE year of its window, matching the World Bank's convention for the FAO food security series already on this site. ⚠ The sheet row asks for protein availability too; it is a column here rather than a separate indicator, because the two come from the same survey window and are read together. The FAO ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION is derived here and labelled as ours.

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