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This removes 37 countries, namely American Samoa, Andorra, Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Cook Islands, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, French Guiana, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guam, Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, Macao, Martinique, Mayotte, Montserrat, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, San Marino, Singapore, Tokelau, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Virgin Islands, Wallis and Futuna, and Western Sahara.\n- We exclude the 8 USSR Asian successors from Asia, namely Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.\n- We include 7 (of the 8) USSR Asian successors as part of Europe. Turkmenistan is not included, due to limited data coverage.\n- We exclude 23 other countries that have limited data coverage for either food supply or agricultural land area. These countries are Bahrain, Bermuda, Bhutan, Brunei, Burundi, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, Marshall Islands, Melanesia, Micronesia (country), Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, North Korea, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Polynesia, Qatar, Seychelles, Somalia, Syria, Tonga, and Tuvalu.\n- We retain Sudan (former), Sudan, and South Sudan, despite South Sudan's missing data between 2012-2018 (causing a visible dip in Africa's agricultural land use), because removing these regions would significantly reduce valuable data.","type":"int","grapherConfigIdETL":"019cb502-4ec8-7570-9ca5-5ea57a6e41ae","dataChecksum":"3490543317508184434","metadataChecksum":"8522553069855617390","datasetName":"Long-term food and agriculture trends","updatePeriodDays":365,"datasetVersion":"2026-03-02","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"name":"Caloric supply","unit":"kilocalories per day","shortUnit":"kcal/day"},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"major","presentation":{"titlePublic":"Daily food supply","topicTagsLinks":["Food Supply"]},"descriptionKey":["The data for world regions — especially Europe and Asia — has been adjusted to allow consistent long-term trends despite changes in historical boundaries and limited coverage. To this end, we reassign USSR successor states from Asia to Europe and exclude countries with limited data coverage. 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