Food supply per person

The calories available per person and day, from the food a country produces and imports.

Food supply is the energy in the food available for people to eat, in kilocalories per person and day: what a country produces and imports, minus exports, animal feed, seed and waste before the kitchen. It is not what people actually eat, which is lower, but it tracks how well fed a population is; about 2,000 to 2,500 kilocalories a day is a healthy supply for an adult. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) compiles it from food balance sheets, and Our World in Data joins it with historical estimates for some countries.

• Food
• Food supply
• Nutrition
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