Dataset · FAO
Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers
22 years, 2001–2022 · 174 countries
This is the share of the calories in a country's food supply that comes from cereals, roots and tubers — rice, wheat, maize, cassava, potatoes and the like. FAO publishes it as a sign of diet quality: the more of the supply that comes from starchy staples, the less room is left for vegetables, fruit, pulses and animal foods.
This site holds every year from 2001 to 2022, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers · the file
- Newest
- Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2022
- Held
- 22 years · 3,705 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0122 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.
Show all 22 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2010 | 162 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2009 | 162 | −8 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2008 | 170 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2007 | 170 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2006 | 170 | +2 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2005 | 168 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2004 | 168 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2003 | 168 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2002 | 168 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2001 | 168 | — | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: staple-energy-share-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, 2022 | 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 | |
Share of dietary energy supply from cereals, roots and tubers (%)staple_energy_shareHeadline | The headline figure: Share of dietary energy supply from cereals, roots and tubers (%). | Number · whole numbers | 21 Bahamas82 DR Congomiddle 41 | 55 | 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. A higher value is the worse result.
03184 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.
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 43 | 43 | 46 | 46 | 46 |
| Europe | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
| Oceania | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| All | 168 | 168 | 168 | 168 | 168 | 168 | 168 | 167 | 166 | 174 | 174 | 174 |
The newest 12 of 22 years.
Who joined and who left
+ Bahrain
+ Bhutan
+ Micronesia
+ Marshall Islands
+ Nauru
+ Qatar
+ Tonga
+ Tuvalu
− Cuba
− North Korea
+ Comoros
+ Libya
+ Papua New Guinea
+ Seychelles
+ Syria
− Benin
− Brunei
− Central African Republic
− Dominica
− Japan
− Mali
− Chad
− Togo
+ Montenegro
+ SerbiaNot in this dataset · 41 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
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Burundi
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Isle of Man
Kosovo
Liechtenstein
Monaco
Montserrat
New Caledonia
NiueNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Palestine
Puerto Rico
Saint Martin
San Marino
Singapore
Sint Maarten
SomaliaSomaliland
South Sudan
Sudan
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
Share of Dietary Energy from Cereals, Roots and Tubers 2022
3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
22 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as staple-energy-share-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
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 derives 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.
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), Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2001–2022 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/staple-energy-share
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
Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Cereal YieldFAO · 63 held · 1961–2023
- Agriculture Orientation IndexFAO · 24 held · 2001–2024
- Dietary Energy SupplyFAO · 24 held · 2001–2024
07Questions
Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers: questions and answers
What is the Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers?
This is the share of the calories in a country's food supply that comes from cereals, roots and tubers — rice, wheat, maize, cassava, potatoes and the like. FAO publishes it as a sign of diet quality: the more of the supply that comes from starchy staples, the less room is left for vegetables, fruit, pulses and animal foods.
Which years of the Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers can I download?
All 22, from 2001 to 2022, 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.