➡️ Swipe: Top 50 Countries That Can Feed Themselves Across Seven Food Groups

Key Takeaways

• In the top 50 (and out of 186 countries in the study), only Guyana hits 100% food self-sufficiency in all seven food groups.
• European countries struggle with fruit & vegetable self-sufficiency, while Asian countries struggle with dairy.
• Nearly all countries import fish.

🤔 Data Breakdown

The data measures a country’s current ability to meet a realistic, health- and climate-orientated diet (Livewell 2020) tailored to each country’s age structure.

Therefore, 100% is full self-sufficiency.

Above it reflects food exports, below it results in imports.

📝 Source Methods

Researchers (Stehl et., al) used 2020 production data from the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Food Balance Sheets and dietary benchmarks from the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Livewell diet to make this analysis.