Food Balance Sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period.

The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption.

The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per caput food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.

A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period.

The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption.

The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.

This dataset contains the table in the appendix of Harris et al. (2015) paper: "How Many Calories? Food Availability in England and Wales in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries". That table contains a compilation of daily calorie (supply or consumption) in England and Wales, according to various different studies.

This dataset contains the estimates on the daily caloric intake in the United States (Table 6.6) and Western Europe (Table 5.5) of "The Changing Body", by Floud et al. (2011).

This dataset contains daily energy from Table 5 of Jonsson (1998) paper: "Changes in food consumption in Iceland, 1770-1940".

This dataset contains daily calories available per capita from Table 1 of Grigg (1995) paper: "The nutritional transition in Western Europe".

This dataset contains daily calorie supply from Table 1.2 of Fogel (2004) book: "The Escape from hunger and Premature Death".

This dataset contains daily calories in various countries, from Table 11 of FAO's "The State of Food and Agriculture 2000".

This dataset contains daily calories in various countries, from Table 15 of FAO's "The State of Food and Agriculture 1949".