Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2019

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Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2019: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Country	Year-to-year variability of the food supply (kcal per person per day)
VenezuelaVENSouth America	288
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	249
Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia	176
UgandaUGAEastern Africa	136
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	99
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia	91
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	86
IcelandISLNorthern Europe	78
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	77
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	77
JordanJORWestern Asia	77
RwandaRWAEastern Africa	77
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	64
BelarusBLREastern Europe	62
GuyanaGUYSouth America	61
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia	59
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia	59
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	59
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe	58
GhanaGHAWestern Africa	57
PanamaPANCentral America	56
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia	56
IndiaINDSouthern Asia	55
SwedenSWENorthern Europe	55
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	54

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 31. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +0 / −1countries joined / left
• 143values changed, of 156 in both
• 67 · 76rose · fell
• 13unchanged

− 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.

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  FAO’s own file, on its own site.

  Food_Security_Data_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip

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.

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