Dataset · FAO
Fish and Seafood Supply per Person
14 years, 2010–2023 · 174 countries
This is how many kilograms of fish and seafood a country's food supply holds per person each year, from FAO's food balance sheets. Where fish production counts what a country catches and farms, this counts what is left for its own people to eat once trade is accounted for.
This site holds every year from 2010 to 2023, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Fish and Seafood Supply per Person · the file
- Newest
- Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2023
- Held
- 14 years · 2,383 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0114 years
Every year
Every year comes from FAO’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2023Newest | 174 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2022 | 174 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2021 | 174 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2020 | 174 | −1 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2019 | 175 | +8 −1 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2018 | 168 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2017 | 168 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2016 | 168 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2015 | 168 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2014 | 168 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2013 | 168 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2012 | 168 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 14 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2011 | 168 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2010 | 168 | — | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: fish-supply-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, 2023 | 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 | — | 174 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 174 | 0 | |
Fish and seafood available as food (kg per person per year, live weight)fish_supplyHeadline | The headline figure: Fish and seafood available as food (kg per person per year, live-weight equivalent). | Number · up to 2 decimals | 0.38 Afghanistan83.81 Icelandmiddle 16.17 | 173 | 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. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03176 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.
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 |
| Americas | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 |
| Asia | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 46 | 46 | 46 | 46 | 46 |
| Europe | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
| Oceania | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| All | 168 | 168 | 168 | 168 | 168 | 168 | 168 | 175 | 174 | 174 | 174 | 174 |
The newest 12 of 14 years.
Who joined and who left
− Cuba
+ Bahrain
+ Bhutan
+ Micronesia
+ Marshall Islands
+ Nauru
+ Qatar
+ Tonga
+ Tuvalu
− North KoreaNot in this dataset · 49 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
Aruba
Benin
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Burundi
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
ChadChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Dominica
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Isle of Man
Japan
Kosovo
Liechtenstein
Mali
Monaco
Montserrat
New Caledonia
NiueNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Palestine
Puerto Rico
Saint Martin
San Marino
Singapore
Sint Maarten
SomaliaSomaliland
South Sudan
Sudan
Togo
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
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
Fish and Seafood Supply per Person 2023
3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
14 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as fish-supply-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 Food Balances domain, read from FAO's own bulk download; its fish rows come from the balances kept by FAO's Fisheries and Aquaculture Division.
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), Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2010–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fish-supply
The publisher’s own citation: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Food Balances (2010-). Accessed on 3 October 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/FBS 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
Fish and Seafood Supply per Person by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
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07Questions
Fish and Seafood Supply per Person: questions and answers
What is the Fish and Seafood Supply per Person?
This is how many kilograms of fish and seafood a country's food supply holds per person each year, from FAO's food balance sheets. Where fish production counts what a country catches and farms, this counts what is left for its own people to eat once trade is accounted for.
Which years of the Fish and Seafood Supply per Person can I download?
All 14, from 2010 to 2023, 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.