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Sugar consumption per capita reached 30.0 kg in 2013 in South Africa, according to Faostat. This is 3.45 % more than in the previous year.

Historically, sugar consumption per capita in South Africa reached an all time high of 42.7 kg in 1975 and an all time low of 25.9 kg in 2008. When compared to South Africa's main peers, sugar consumption per capita in Botswana amounted to 23.8 kg, 14.7 kg in Lesotho, 15.3 kg in Namibia and 20.4 kg in Swaziland in 2013.

South Africa has been ranked 54th within the group of 160 countries we follow in terms of sugar consumption per capita, 12 places above the position seen 10 years ago.

Sugar contains carbohydrates and as this name implies, is composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

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Sugar contains carbohydrates and as this name implies, is composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Simple sugars are called monosaccharides and include glucose, fructose and galactose. Sugars are found in the tissues of most plants but are only present in sufficient concentrations for efficient extraction in sugarcane and sugar beet. A great expansion in its production took place in the 18th century, with the setting up of sugar plantations in the West Indies and Americas. The world produced about 168 million tonnes of sugar in 2011. The average person consumes about 24 kilograms of sugar each year, equivalent to over 260 food calories per person per day. In modern times it has been questioned whether a diet high in sugars, especially refined sugars, is bad for health. Sugar has been linked to obesity and suspected of being implicated in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, macular degeneration and tooth decay.

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Afghanistan	kg																																															6.70	7.37	7.65	7.80	7.60
Albania	kg																																															17.6	17.7	17.7	15.3	15.3
Algeria	kg																																															28.7	25.7	28.2	28.1	24.5
Angola	kg																																															12.0	13.5	12.2	12.0	12.4
Argentina	kg																																															38.2	37.8	37.5	37.7	38.1
Armenia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																28.6	30.2	30.3	36.9	33.2
Australia	kg																																															35.9	35.6	34.9	34.3	34.1
Austria	kg																																															38.6	38.9	37.4	37.6	37.9
Azerbaijan	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																12.0	12.7	12.6	13.6	13.9
Bahamas	kg																																															28.8	28.4	26.7	27.1	26.5
Bangladesh	kg																																															5.17	5.05	5.01	5.00	5.00
Belarus	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																33.2	36.2	38.2	32.8	31.8
Belgium	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...								46.9	46.5	46.2	46.0	41.4
Belize	kg																																															39.0	37.4	37.5	38.9	39.5
Benin	kg																																															2.73	4.67	4.34	4.50	4.60
Bolivia	kg																																															23.2	23.4	23.0	23.2	23.9
Bosnia and Herzegovina	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																12.3	12.7	11.2	12.3	13.4
Botswana	kg																																															24.5	23.8	24.1	23.9	23.7
Brazil	kg																																															36.4	36.6	36.2	36.5	36.5
Brunei	kg																																															28.0	26.9	27.9	27.8	28.0
Bulgaria	kg																																															29.1	28.3	27.1	22.2	24.0
Burkina Faso	kg																																															6.18	4.33	4.23	4.30	6.30
Cambodia	kg																																															15.5	16.9	17.0	17.2	16.3
Cameroon	kg																																															8.96	8.53	6.92	8.60	9.60
Canada	kg																																															35.3	35.1	28.5	25.5	31.3
Central African Republic	kg																																															5.44	5.43	5.09	4.70	4.90
Chad	kg																																															8.27	7.42	7.03	8.40	9.20
Chile	kg																																															41.9	42.6	42.5	42.2	41.7
China	kg																																															6.00	5.80	5.90	5.90	6.20
Colombia	kg																																															26.1	27.4	27.2	21.3	23.2
Congo	kg																																															17.4	17.4	12.8	12.3	12.4
Costa Rica	kg																																															49.4	47.6	46.6	47.9	47.2
Croatia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																30.9	32.2	32.2	35.0	33.8
Cuba	kg																																															45.9	40.9	54.1	55.2	51.5
Cyprus	kg																																															25.5	24.4	23.4	22.4	21.2
Czech Republic	kg																																															27.4	27.9	31.3	32.7	30.6
Dem. People's Republic of Korea	kg																																															4.51	5.20	4.53	4.30	3.80
Denmark	kg																																															45.2	38.5	38.3	38.1	38.0
Djibouti	kg																																															26.2	26.9	26.5	27.7	28.0
Dominican Republic	kg																																															34.2	33.6	31.0	28.9	28.8
East Timor	kg																																															6.59	6.63	7.25	7.40	7.60
Ecuador	kg																																															15.8	15.9	15.9	16.2	16.4
Egypt	kg																																															23.2	23.8	21.8	25.8	26.4
El Salvador	kg																																															35.8	36.0	36.1	35.6	36.5
Estonia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																40.0	37.2	38.9	33.2	31.4
Ethiopia	kg																																															4.60	4.68	4.48	4.80	5.50
European Union	kg																																															31.4	31.9	31.8	31.8	31.8
Fiji	kg																																															36.5	34.7	35.8	32.6	35.7
Finland	kg																																															27.6	23.5	27.5	24.5	25.0
France	kg																																															30.8	30.4	33.9	31.7	31.9
Gabon	kg																																															14.3	12.9	14.3	14.2	14.5
Gambia	kg																																															25.1	23.4	22.4	22.5	23.8
Georgia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																38.6	41.0	26.1	23.1	27.0
Germany	kg																																															32.2	35.4	34.0	35.4	34.0
Ghana	kg																																															9.10	8.50	10.1	11.7	9.60
Greece	kg																																															25.5	25.4	22.6	22.6	22.6
Guatemala	kg																																															50.4	44.4	48.8	44.6	47.9
Guinea	kg																																															11.8	12.1	12.1	12.3	12.4
Guinea Bissau	kg																																															10.3	10.7	10.9	11.2	10.4
Guyana	kg																																															31.5	31.3	32.1	32.1	31.8
Haiti	kg																																															18.8	18.3	17.8	14.9	15.4
Honduras	kg																																															34.3	35.6	37.4	39.1	37.3
Hong Kong	kg																																															30.8	31.1	30.3	30.7	30.3
Hungary	kg																																															14.9	13.0	13.0	13.0	13.1
Iceland	kg																																															32.9	33.0	34.5	34.3	33.9
India	kg																																															16.5	18.3	17.8	17.3	18.3
Indonesia	kg																																															12.0	11.8	11.9	12.2	12.5
Iraq	kg																																															18.0	16.1	14.0	16.8	16.8
Iran	kg																																															25.0	24.7	25.2	26.6	26.1
Ireland	kg																																															25.9	26.5	28.6	25.8	26.3
Israel	kg																																															21.4	20.4	22.3	22.6	29.1
Italy	kg																																															25.6	25.6	25.4	25.1	25.0
Ivory Coast	kg																																															9.14	8.87	8.06	8.70	9.20
Jamaica	kg																																															37.6	44.1	40.8	40.9	42.4
Japan	kg																																															17.5	16.4	15.8	13.9	16.0
Jordan	kg																																															43.8	44.4	37.7	43.1	37.3
Kazakhstan	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																28.9	28.5	26.9	24.0	25.8
Kenya	kg																																															15.9	15.6	15.2	14.7	14.3
Kuwait	kg																																															33.3	34.9	33.3	29.6	27.9
Kyrgyzstan	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																20.0	20.1	19.8	20.0	20.2
Laos	kg																																															4.18	4.29	4.25	4.20	4.50
Latvia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																20.3	26.2	24.4	41.1	38.8
Lebanon	kg																																															38.3	36.9	37.1	39.7	39.2
Lesotho	kg																																															14.8	14.7	14.8	14.7	14.6
Liberia	kg																																															5.24	5.40	6.04	6.50	6.20
Lithuania	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																30.1	32.7	32.0	35.5	28.7
Luxembourg	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...								9.10	9.30	9.50	10.4	10.8
Macao	kg																																															15.1	15.4	14.3	14.5	14.9
Macedonia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																31.6	35.8	29.6	34.1	30.7
Madagascar	kg																																															6.15	6.05	6.86	6.70	6.80
Malawi	kg																																															11.5	12.3	10.8	11.3	8.40
Malaysia	kg																																															35.4	35.9	39.0	39.2	38.4
Maldives	kg																																															31.0	32.1	31.2	31.9	31.0
Mali	kg																																															12.1	12.3	11.6	9.80	8.50
Malta	kg																																															42.6	45.6	47.1	46.5	44.1
Mauritania	kg																																															31.9	32.6	32.6	32.3	32.5
Mauritius	kg																																															34.0	31.9	32.0	29.0	26.6
Mexico	kg																																															40.1	40.3	40.7	35.5	33.3
Moldova	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																27.4	21.7	17.8	20.4	24.0
Mongolia	kg																																															10.5	11.3	10.7	10.3	11.3
Montenegro	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		21.0	17.4	16.7	16.1	18.3
Morocco	kg																																															36.0	37.4	37.6	34.7	36.0
Mozambique	kg																																															9.26	10.2	10.5	10.2	10.4
Myanmar	kg																																															0.440	0.400	0.340	0.400	0.300
Namibia	kg																																															15.9	14.3	15.1	15.4	15.2
Nepal	kg																																															4.38	3.98	3.82	3.60	3.70
Netherlands	kg																																															41.0	40.9	40.8	40.6	40.6
New Zealand	kg																																															50.1	50.2	49.5	45.9	44.3
Nicaragua	kg																																															32.9	33.7	33.7	33.6	34.0
Niger	kg																																															5.30	5.10	4.80	4.40	4.50
Nigeria	kg																																															7.90	8.00	8.70	8.70	8.60
Norway	kg																																															30.6	30.7	30.0	29.0	28.0
Oman	kg																																															29.2	29.1	28.4	28.3	28.7
Pakistan	kg																																															24.3	25.8	21.3	24.0	23.1
Panama	kg																																															23.9	23.1	22.8	24.1	24.8
Paraguay	kg																																															22.0	22.4	22.6	22.4	22.6
Peru	kg																																															18.3	19.1	19.1	19.2	19.3
Philippines	kg																																															21.3	22.0	19.3	19.1	19.4
Poland	kg																																															39.3	38.0	39.3	39.3	40.6
Portugal	kg																																															22.8	21.9	22.2	22.0	21.7
Romania	kg																																															24.3	21.4	23.7	19.2	18.9
Russia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																40.3	40.6	38.6	41.2	42.4
Rwanda	kg	...	...																																													3.33	2.93	3.96	5.00	4.80
Saudi Arabia	kg																																															29.1	29.4	30.6	29.9	29.4
Senegal	kg																																															13.1	11.6	13.1	13.7	13.7
Serbia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		27.9	19.4	25.4	21.7	25.7
Sierra Leone	kg																																															5.82	5.73	5.75	3.30	4.80
Slovakia	kg																																															30.5	35.4	34.3	35.7	32.0
Slovenia	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																16.2	16.2	16.9	17.2	17.0
South Africa	kg																																															26.8	25.9	26.2	30.6	30.3
South Korea	kg																																															16.6	19.3	18.6	19.5	17.4
Spain	kg																																															22.4	22.1	21.9	21.7	21.5
Sri Lanka	kg																																															23.9	29.2	23.1	26.2	24.9
Sudan	kg																																															20.9	21.1	21.7	21.5	...
Suriname	kg																																															40.5	39.9	41.5	41.2	42.7
Swaziland	kg																																															22.8	24.0	22.8	19.7	20.4
Sweden	kg																																															34.6	34.2	34.0	32.5	33.7
Switzerland	kg																																															50.5	50.9	50.0	49.8	49.2
Taiwan	kg																																															25.6	25.0	23.4	24.1	23.5
Tajikistan	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																14.6	15.5	16.4	16.0	16.4
Tanzania	kg																																															8.37	8.12	8.31	8.90	9.20
Thailand	kg																																															33.3	33.6	34.3	34.5	35.5
Togo	kg																																															7.19	7.93	8.57	9.50	10.8
Trinidad and Tobago	kg																																															55.5	55.3	55.2	51.0	51.3
Tunisia	kg																																															31.2	30.9	32.2	31.1	32.0
Turkey	kg																																															25.2	27.1	28.4	29.2	27.3
Turkmenistan	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																7.40	7.70	6.70	6.80	7.30
Uganda	kg																																															8.25	9.22	9.33	9.80	9.00
Ukraine	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																43.6	41.9	37.8	37.0	39.6
United Arab Emirates	kg																																															29.3	29.7	31.3	35.8	31.7
United Kingdom	kg																																															31.2	32.3	34.9	32.3	35.8
USA	kg																																															27.6	27.3	27.0	26.8	28.1
Uruguay	kg																																															25.8	28.7	30.4	26.8	26.1
Uzbekistan	kg	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																18.8	11.1	9.50	9.40	9.30
Venezuela	kg																																															34.9	33.3	33.6	34.9	34.8
Vietnam	kg																																															10.6	10.5	8.77	9.10	8.50
Yemen	kg																																															23.3	23.3	23.5	24.9	25.2
Zambia	kg																																															8.69	8.43	9.26	9.10	9.20
Zimbabwe	kg																																															20.9	19.9	20.1	21.7	22.6
World	kg																																															18.8	18.8	18.3	18.6	18.6

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