Yearly per capita supply of fruit
- Description
Quantity that is available for consumption at the end of the supply chain. It does not account for consumer waste, so the quantity that is actually consumed may be lower.
- Data source
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
- Unit
- kilograms per year per capita
- Date range
- 1961-2023
- Last updated
- 2026-02-25
- Next expected update
- 2027-02-25
- Managed by
- Pablo Rosado
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Notes on our processing step for this indicator
- Per-capita values were obtained by dividing total figures by Our World in Data's population.
- For regions defined by FAOSTAT, per-capita values were calculated using FAOSTAT's original population data, if available.
- This data was originally given per-capita by FAOSTAT. We converted this data into total figures by multiplying by FAOSTAT's population.
The latest FAOSTAT release (published on 2025-10-28) is missing data for Benin, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Dominica, Japan, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Togo, due to an ongoing review. To avoid data gaps, we sourced data for those countries from a previous FAOSTAT release.
Documentation from data sources
Principal data source
Principal data source
Item: Fruits - Excluding Wine
Metric: Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr)
Data sources
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Food Balances: Food Balances (-2013, old methodology and population)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Food Balances: Food Balances (-2013, old methodology and population)
Food Balance Sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period.
The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption.
The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per caput food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Food Balances: Food Balances (-2013, old methodology and population) (2023).Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Food Balances: Food Balances (2010–)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Food Balances: Food Balances (2010–)
A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period.
The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption.
The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Food Balances: Food Balances (2010-) (2025).How to cite
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