Highlights:

• FAO is launching under the Food and diet domain a set of four subdomains featuring different types of dietary data that users can easily access.

• 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.

• At the global level, the daily per capita availability of fat and riboflavin (vitamin B2) showed the largest increases between 2010 and 2021, with a rise of 13 percent and 12 percent, respectively, while that of carbohydrate (excluding fibre) and thiamin (vitamin B1) increased the least, with a rise of 3 percent and 5 percent, respectively.

• At the household level, people from 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 2012 showed that cereals and meat contributed more to the daily food intake of males compared to females while milk, vegetables and fruits contributed more to the daily food intake of females compared to males.

• Also at the individual level, the percentage of women reaching minimum dietary diversity varied across surveys, ranging from 13 percent in Uganda (in 2020) to 80 percent in Tajikistan (in 2017). In six out of ten surveys, 50–60 percent of women of reproductive age achieved MDD-W at the national level.