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Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2021

2021, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2021 covers 174 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 82; Estonia is lowest, at 21. The middle country reads 42. Against 2020, 96 values changed (45 up, 51 down), the same countries are covered.

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Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers · Data for 2021

HighestDR Congo

82

LowestEstonia

21

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2021, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 174 countries · select a heading to sort

Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2021: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa82
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa80
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia76
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa74
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa74
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia73
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa72
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa72
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa72
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia71
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa69
LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia68
GhanaGHAWestern Africa67
LesothoLSOSouthern Africa67
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa66
MalawiMWIEastern Africa66
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia65
GuineaGINWestern Africa64
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa63
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa63
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia63
NepalNPLSouthern Asia63
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa63
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia63
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia62

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Lowest

  1. Estonia21
  2. Grenada22
  3. United Statesshared23
  4. Czechiashared23
  5. Belgiumshared23

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 42. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 96values changed, of 174 in both
  • 45 · 51rose · fell
  • 78unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2021.

  • 56 distinct values among 174

    Values are stored exactly as published. 9 countries share 31. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 174 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) (2021). Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/staple-energy-share/2021

07Questions

Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest calories from staple foods in Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2021?

DR Congo, at 82, of the 174 countries in the file.

What year does Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2021 cover?

174.

Where can I download Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2021?

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

Is Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2021 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers, 2022.

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