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Who's the Major Cereal Eater?

Cereal Consumption Per Capita (Excluding Beer) (kg), 2013
Food & Drink | February 22, 2018
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Based on a comparison of 158 countries in 2013, Morocco ranked the highest in cereal consumption per capita with 254 kg followed by Egypt and Lesotho. On the other end of the scale was Rwanda with 46.8 kg, Central African Republic with 62.0 kg and Congo with 64.9 kg.

Average cereal consumption per capita reached 147 kg in 2013 in the World according to Faostat. This is 0.136 % more than in the previous year and 0.272 % more than 10 years ago.

Historically, average cereal consumption per capita reached an all time high of 153 kg in 1989 and an all time low of 128 kg in 1961. The average annual growth amounted to 0.268 % since 1961.

Data for more countries are available at Cereal Consumption Per Capita (Excluding Beer) indicator page.

Cereal Consumption Per Capita (Excluding Beer) Unit 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Algeria kg 219 219 218 215 215
Azerbaijan kg 230 234 231 229 226
Bangladesh kg 192 191 191 190 190
Burkina Faso kg 212 210 214 215 213
Egypt kg 245 249 250 248 252
Gambia kg 171 179 195 193 196
Georgia kg 196 207 203 190 206
Lesotho kg 232 236 234 233 233
Mali kg 199 203 211 213 216
Morocco kg 254 257 254 254 254
Nepal kg 190 187 191 192 192
Niger kg 205 206 207 209 207
Tunisia kg 207 203 212 213 213
Turkey kg 223 218 214 212 205
Turkmenistan kg 210 207 206 208 207