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Food balance sheets 2010–2023

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Year of publication 2025

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 15 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Booklet

Category Factsheet

Series title FAOSTAT Analytical Briefs

Series number No. 112

To cite or share https://doi.org/10.4060/cd7162en

Synopsis (short abstract) Supply utilization accounts and food balance sheets are important tools for the analysis and policy monitoring of national agrifood systems. They present a comprehensive picture of the agrifood situation of a country in a specified reference period, showing the pattern of a country’s food supply and utilization. Food balance sheets can be used to examine changes in the level and composition of food supply, the availability of dietary energy and nutrients in different countries, and on the part played by international trade in global agrifood systems. The Statistics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) compiles supply utilization accounts for 189 countries covering a total of 449 primary and derived commodities. The latest release of food balance sheets provides time-series data from 2010 to 2023. In 2023, the global food supply, measured in terms of average per capita dietary energy supply, crossed the historic milestone of 3 000 kilocalories per capita per day.

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FAO. 2025. Food balance sheets 2010–2023. FAOSTAT Analytical Brief Series, No. 112. Rome.



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