Who's the Major Egg Eater?

Egg Consumption Per Capita (kg), 2021 or latest
Food & Drink | May 5, 2024
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Based on a comparison of 165 countries in 2021, China ranked the highest in egg consumption per capita with 22.0 kg followed by Mexico and Japan. On the other end of the scale was South Sudan with 0.040 kg, Angola with 0.070 kg and Dem. Republic of the Congo with 0.070 kg.

Average egg consumption per capita reached 10.4 kg in 2021 in the World according to Faostat. This is 1.92 % less than in the previous year and 14.5 % more than 10 years ago.

Historically, average egg consumption per capita reached an all time high of 10.6 kg in 2020 and an all time low of 4.54 kg in 1963. The average annual growth amounted to 1.39 % since 1961.

Data for more countries are available at Egg Consumption Per Capita indicator page.

Egg Consumption Per Capita Unit 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Albania kg 15.0 15.3 14.7 15.3 15.9
Argentina kg 15.0 15.6 15.7 16.1 15.9
China kg 20.1 20.7 20.2 20.3 21.4
Indonesia kg 5.08 5.41 15.2 15.2 15.0
Japan kg 19.1 19.5 19.7 20.0 20.1
Kuwait kg 13.8 16.1 17.9 14.7 14.2
Luxembourg kg 16.2 17.3 18.5 18.2 18.1
Malaysia kg 18.2 18.9 18.9 17.4 13.5
Maldives kg 13.1 15.1 13.4 15.8 18.5
Mexico kg 19.6 19.9 20.0 20.4 20.8
Netherlands kg 20.7 22.2 19.7 17.4 22.4
Paraguay kg 16.7 17.0 21.4 20.1 17.8
Qatar kg ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 20.0
Russia kg 15.5 15.7 16.1 16.5 16.7
Ukraine kg 15.7 14.6 14.3 17.3 18.5

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