Average amount of fruits and vegetables available per person per year (kg)

Average amount of fruits and vegetables available per person per year (kg)
Indicator code: E165309.T

Total amount of fruits and vegetables available per person. See also WHO indicator no. 160300.

Source FAO Statistics Division, Food Balance Sheets

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Sum of FAO Stat item code 2919, element 645: Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr) - Fruits - Excluding Wine + (Total) and FAO Stat item code 2918, element 645: Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr) - Vegetables + (Total).

Food Balance Sheets (FBS) are compiled every year by FAO, mainly with country-level data on the production and trade of food commodities. Using these data and the available information on seed rates, waste coefficients, stock changes and types of utilization (feed, food, processing and other utilization), a supply/utilization account is prepared for each commodity in weight terms. The food component of the commodity account, which is usually derived as a balancing item, refers to the total amount of the commodity available for human consumption during the year. Besides commodity-by-commodity information, the FAO FBS also provide total food availability estimates by aggregating the food component of all commodities including fishery products. From these values and the available population estimates, the per person dietary energy and protein and fat supplies are derived and expressed on a daily basis.

In the FBS production data refer only to primary products while data for all other elements also include processed products derived there from, expressed in primary commodity equivalent.

For additional methodological information, please consult “Food balance sheets – a handbook”, available from http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/X9892E/X9892E00.HTM.