World Dietary Energy Consumption

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World dietary energy consumption. Table 1 shows that current energy intakes range from 2681 kcal per capita per day in developing countries to 2906 kcal per capita per day in. The data was sourced from faostat values reflect domestic utilization for food. Global share of total final consumption by source 2018 open. 3 2 developments in the availability of dietary energy.

Food consumption expressed in kilocalories kcal per capita per day is a key variable used for measuring and evaluating the evolution of the global and regional food situation. Find out about the world a region or a country. The increase in the world average consumption would have been higher but for the declines in the transition. According to the european commission primary energy consumption declined by 0 7 in 2018 0 1 only for final energy consumption which is insufficient to meet the 2020 targets.

It varies markedly between different regions and countries of the world. Food consumption is the amount of food available for human consumption as estimated by the united nations food and agriculture organization fao food balance sheets however the actual food consumption may be lower than the quantity shown as food availability depends on the magnitude of wastage and losses of food in the household for example during storage in preparation and cooking as. World total final consumption by source 1973 2018 open. In this chart we see the average daily supply of calories measured in kilocalories per person per day by world region from 1961 to 2013.

The growth in food consumption has been accompanied by significant structural changes and a shift in diet away from staples such as roots and tubers towards more livestock products and vegetable oils 4. This data is annually available and is updated by the fao extending back until 1961. It gives an overestimate of the total amount of food consumed as it reflects both food consumed and food wasted. Global energy consumption growth slowed down in 2019 0 6 compared to an average 2 year over the 2000 2018 period in a context of slower economic growth.

The dietary energy supply kcal capita day is an indicator calculated at the national level that serves as an estimate of the amount of calories from foods available for human consumption. What the world eats. Energy consumption increased at a slower pace than in previous years in china 3 2 the world s largest consumer since 2009 in russia 1 8 and in india 0 8 only. The most widely used and comprehensive data on food supply and consumption is published by the un food and agriculture organization fao.

This indicator does not yield any information on the affordability access or consumption of dietary energy by different population groups within a given country which means that sufficient. The dietary energy supply is the food available for human consumption usually expressed in kilocalories or kilojoules per person per day.