Mean intakes by world region
| Intake category (g/d) | Sub-Saharan Africa (n=45) | Latin America/Caribbean (n=30) | FCP (n=27) | Asia (n=13) | MENA/South Asia (n=23) | High Income/ Western (n=26) |
| Fruit | 84.5 (19–150) | 161.8 (83–325) | 98.0 (52–229) | 149.4 (39–301) | 119.2 (20–276) | 160.1 (85–255) |
| Vegetables | 117.8 (39–206) | 104.0 (60–151) | 122.9 (43–215) | 176.0 (41–349) | 194.9 (49–308) | 148.4 (54–398) |
| Beans and legumes | 119.1 (30–418) | 78.8 (5–247) | 8.9 (0.1–40) | 20.2 (5–56) | 30.9 (15–70) | 15.5 (1–63) |
| Nuts and seeds | 7.6 (0.2–28) | 7.0 (0.6–18) | 5.9 (2–15) | 39.6 (2–152) | 10.8 (5–45) | 5.2 (1–38) |
| Whole grains | 89.4 (11–246) | 37.1 (6–128) | 19.8 (1–47) | 86.8 (8–285) | 36.4 (3–87) | 72.2 (12–334) |
| Unprocessed red meat | 43.9 (16–124) | 50.2 (20–98) | 55.2 (23–93) | 33.6 (13–55) | 51.7 (3–101) | 63.9 (30–101) |
| Processed meat | 8.3 (3–23) | 26.8 (6–66) | 26.5 (8–49) | 11.2 (4–20) | 5.5 (3–13) | 25.5 (5–39) |
| Fish | 26.2 (6–50) | 25.9 (6–49) | 17.4 (8–31) | 45.7 (28–88) | 19.2 (8–35) | 35.7 (15–65) |
| Milk | 91.6 (15–238) | 163.0 (69–312) | 151.1 (57–309) | 69.3 (10–160) | 116.7 (24–274) | 173.9 (72–352) |
| Sugar-sweetened beverages | 141.7 (39–321) | 446.4 (91–727) | 78.1 (26–147) | 92.3 (14–192) | 121.3 (39–203) | 110.8 (25–267) |
| 100% fruit juice | 14.9 (0–169) | 74.3 (22–201) | 30.6 (2–92) | 29.3 (0–72) | 32.2 (1–85) | 71.2 (12–196) |
Sub-Saharan Africa (Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe).
Latin America and the Caribbean (Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela).
Former Centrally Planned (FCP) economies of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine).
Asia (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam).
Middle East and North Africa (MENA)/South Asia (Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, West Bank and Gaza, and Yemen).
High-Income/Western Countries (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Seychelles, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States).
Values are mean daily intake in g/d, based on the 2010 Global Dietary Database. All values are gram equivalents. Estimates are based on the number of countries (n) within each region. (Min/Max) values are in parentheses.