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Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2019

2019, as FAO’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2019 covers 175 countries. Iceland is highest, at 90.05; Afghanistan is lowest, at 0.39. The middle country reads 16.18. Against 2018, 166 values changed (87 up, 79 down), 8 countries joined, 1 left.

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Fish and Seafood Supply per Person · Data for 2019

HighestIceland

90.05

LowestAfghanistan

0.39

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2019, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 175 countries · select a heading to sort

Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2019: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
IcelandISLNorthern Europe90.05
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia85.99
KiribatiKIRMicronesia77.30
MacauMACEastern Asia68.86
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia65.99
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe57.50
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean55.69
South KoreaKOREastern Asia54.64
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia52.46
NorwayNORNorthern Europe50.68
TuvaluTUVPolynesia50.09
MicronesiaFSMMicronesia49.74
SeychellesSYCEastern Africa46.66
SamoaWSMPolynesia46.12
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia43.70
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia42.37
BarbadosBRBCaribbean42.05
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia41.49
Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia41.39
ChinaCHNEastern Asia40.68
SpainESPSouthern Europe39.90
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia39.89
Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean36.27
Saint LuciaLCACaribbean33.85
Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia33.49

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Iceland90.05
  2. Maldives85.99
  3. Kiribati77.30
  4. Macau68.86
  5. Hong Kong65.99

Lowest

  1. Afghanistan0.39
  2. Ethiopia0.54
  3. Tajikistan0.65
  4. Kyrgyzstan0.91
  5. Mongolia1.10

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 16.18. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +8 / −1countries joined / left
  • 166values changed, of 167 in both
  • 87 · 79rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bahrain+ Bhutan+ Micronesia+ Marshall Islands+ Nauru+ Qatar+ Tonga+ Tuvalu− North Korea

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from FAO’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2019.

  • 174 distinct values among 175

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 3.85. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 175 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2019). Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fish-supply/2019

0614 held

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07Questions

Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fish and seafood supply per person in Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2019?

Iceland, at 90.05, of the 175 countries in the file.

What year does Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2019 cover?

175.

Where can I download Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2019?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2019 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Fish and Seafood Supply per Person, 2023.

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