Food and diet. Statistics on dietary data

01/02/2024

FAO launches the Food and Diet domain on FAOSTAT, the first centralized location for the sharing of statistics on all forms of dietary related data in an effort to harmonize the processing of dietary data, increase their dissemination, and improve the utilization of food supply, food consumption, and diet quality statistics and indicators. The Food and Diet domain on FAOSTAT presents harmonized statistics for twenty-four nutrients in total. The statistics are presented at the national level for all data sources, by geographic areas for all data sources except for supply utilization accounts, by income groups for household consumption and expenditure surveys, and by sex-age groups for individual quantitative dietary data. The statistics by food groups, for all data sources, are based on a nutrition-sensitive food grouping classification.

With the new FAOSTAT domain, users can now easily access and compare data across countries and years. 

Statistics on nutrient supply, elaborated from FAO supply utilization accounts, are available for 186 countries from 2010. Statistics on apparent nutrient intake are based on 38 household consumption and expenditure surveys conducted in 30 countries between 2010 and 2021. Five nationally representative individual quantitative dietary intake surveys from four countries provide information on nutrient intake. Statistics based on the minimum dietary diversity for women (MDD-W) indicator are sourced from ten individual qualitative dietary surveys in nine countries.

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FAOSTAT domains:

FAOSTAT Availability (based on supply utilization accounts) domain

FAOSTAT Apparent intake (based on household consumption and expenditure surveys) domain

FAOSTAT Intake (based on individual quantitative dietary surveys) domain

FAOSTAT Diversity (MDD-W, based on individual qualitative dietary surveys) domain