FAOSTAT releases today new estimates on dietary data.

Launched in February 2024, and updated in November 2024 and October 2025, the food and diet domain is the first centralized location for the sharing of statistics on different forms of dietary-related data. The domain is composed of four subdomains presenting availability based on FAO supply utilization accounts (SUA) data for 178 countries from 2010 to 2023, apparent intake based on 59 household consumption and expenditure surveys (HCES) conducted in 34 countries between 2010 and 2024; intake based on eight nationally representative individual quantitative dietary data surveys from five countries; and statistics related to the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator from 25 surveys conducted in 23 countries.

Main findings:

• Globally, the daily per capita availability of fat and riboflavin (vitamin B2) showed the largest increases between 2010 and 2023, each rising by 15 percent or more, while that of carbohydrate (excluding fibre), and energy increased the least, with a rise of 3 and 7 percent, respectively.
• Statistics from 59 household surveys conducted in 34 countries between 2010 and 2024 show that the lowest income quintile had a lower apparent at-home protein intake from animal sources than people from the highest income quintile.
• At the individual level, data from the Mexico National Health and Nutrition Survey of 2016 showed that cereals contributed more to the daily food consumption of males than females. Milk, vegetables and fruits contributed more to the daily food consumption of females than males.
• The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator from 25 individual surveys in 23 countries show that the percentage of women achieving MDD-W ranges from 13 percent in Uganda in 2020 to 80 percent in Tajikistan in 2017.