Countries with the Highest Calorie Intake Per Capita
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Countries with the Highest Calorie Intake Per CapitaIreland tops the list with 3,884 calories available per person per day, followed by the United States (3,781) and Belgium (3,769) - all far above the roughly 2,000-2,500 calories an adult actually needs. Turkey (3,712) is a striking entry, ranking ahead of wealthy Western European states, while Austria (3,694) and Iceland (3,653) round out the top six. The rest of the top twelve are almost entirely high-income European and North American nations: Romania, Canada, Germany, Poland, Israel and Italy, all supplying more than 3,500 calories per head. The abundance shown here helps explain why obesity is widespread across these regions, though the figures reflect food supply rather than consumption, so a meaningful share is lost to waste rather than eaten.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 12 observations
- Measure
- Daily Calorie Supply Per Capita (kcal, 2018)
- Last updated
- 14 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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