Dataset · FAO

Per Capita Food Supply Variability

24 years, 2001–2024 · 155 countries

This measures how much a country's food supply swings from year to year, in calories per person per day. FAO uses it to describe the stability of food security: a supply that rises and falls sharply is a less reliable one, even when its average is adequate.

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: Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2024
Held: 24 years · 3,706 rows
Licence: CC BY 4.0

24years held
2001–2024years
3,706rows across every year
155countries in the newest158 across every year
1measure
CC BY 4.0licence

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 Per Capita Food Supply Variability held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2024Newest	155	+1	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2023	154	−1	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2022	155	−1	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2021	156	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2020	156	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2019	156	−1	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2018	157	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2017	157	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2016	157	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2015	157	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2014	157	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2013	157	+1	October 3, 2026	CSV

Show all 24 years

Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2012	156	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2011	156	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2010	156	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2009	156	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2008	156	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2007	156	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2006	156	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2005	156	+10	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2004	146	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2003	146	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2002	146	±0	October 3, 2026	CSV
Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2001	146	—	October 3, 2026	CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: food-supply-variability-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.

Every column in the newest file of Per Capita Food Supply Variability: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	155
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	155
Year-to-year variability of the food supply (kcal per person per day)`food_supply_variability`Headline	The headline figure: Year-to-year variability of the food supply (kcal per person per day).	Number · whole numbers	4Lithuania227Venezuelamiddle 29	60

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.

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 Per Capita Food Supply Variability, by continent.
	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Africa	47	47	47	47	47	47	47	47	47	46	46	47
Americas	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	28	28
Asia	35	35	35	35	35	35	34	34	34	34	34	34
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	157	157	157	157	157	157	156	156	156	155	154	155

The newest 12 of 24 years.

Who joined and who left

2024
+ South Sudan
2023
− Nicaragua
2022
− Sudan
2019
− North Korea
2013
+ Sudan
2005
+ Belgium+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Libya+ Luxembourg+ Montenegro+ Papua New Guinea+ Somalia+ Serbia+ Syria

Not in this dataset · 67 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.

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 · Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
fao.org
2 · Their file
Per Capita Food Supply Variability 2024
Food_Security_Data_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip
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 food-supply-variability-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/food-supply-variability

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 FAO's own bulk download. FAO computes it from its own food balance sheets.

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 October 3, 2026

CC BY 4.0

Share and redistribute it
Adapt it and build on it
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A credit line

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Per Capita Food Supply Variability, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2001–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/food-supply-variability

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
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Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
- Food & Agriculture
- Risk & Resilience
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07Questions