Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2024

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Per Capita Food Supply Variability, 2024: 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	227
Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia	185
UgandaUGAEastern Africa	118
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	114
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	111
RwandaRWAEastern Africa	106
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia	73
JordanJORWestern Asia	71
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe	70
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	69
IsraelISRWestern Asia	69
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	66
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	63
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe	62
São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa	62
Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia	62
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	62
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia	59
HaitiHTICaribbean	57
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	57
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	56
TogoTGOWestern Africa	55
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	54
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	54
KenyaKENEastern Africa	52

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 29. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +1 / −0countries joined / left
• 142values changed, of 154 in both
• 89 · 53rose · fell
• 12unchanged

+ South Sudan

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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