plate 239 · 2023 data

Chicken gives Egyptians twice the calories beef does

Food supply per person per day, kilocalories, poultry meat and beef, Egypt, 2010 and 2023.

Egypt and the Arab world
  1. 1. Egypt is set to outgrow Japan in 2027, then Russia
  2. 2. In 2025, Suez Canal traffic was under half its record
  3. 3. Egypt exports more fresh oranges than any other country
  4. 4. Egypt is the world's biggest wheat buyer
  5. 5. Saudi Arabia has more desalination capacity than the entire US
  6. 6. Three in four UAE residents are international migrants
  7. 7. Only America draws more new foreign projects than the UAE
  8. 8. Algeria outspends all of sub-Saharan Africa on its military
  9. 9. Women in MENA now outpace men at university
  10. 10. Dubai's airport handles more international travellers than Heathrow
  11. 11. The UAE sold more goods abroad than France in 2025
  12. 12. Oil now makes less than a third of Saudi power
  13. 13. Egypt now owes Russia more than any other government
  14. 14. Two-thirds of young Jordanian women in the workforce are jobless
  15. 15. Baghdad's mobile internet overtook Erbil's
  16. 16. Morocco climbed to second in world fertiliser exports
  17. 17. Algiers now has North Africa's fastest home internet
  18. 18. Saudi imports from China now top the Group of Seven
  19. 19. Syria has lost more stored water than drought-famous Iran
  20. 20. Chicken gives Egyptians twice the calories beef does
  21. 21. More young Tunisian men than women neither work nor study
72 kcal

of chicken per Egyptian per day in 2023, up from 42 in 2010.

32 kcal

of beef, down from 47. Chicken first passed beef in 2017 and has led every year since 2019.

2.25×

chicken to beef in 2023. Colombia and Côte d'Ivoire made the same flip.

Source: FAO, FAOSTAT Food Balances (2010–), 2023
the numbers & method
Chicken gives Egyptians twice the calories beef does. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT Food Balances (2010–), 2023.
2010 (kcal)2023 (kcal)
chicken4272
beef4732

Claim types Estimate

FAOSTAT Food Balances (2010–), element 664 Food supply (kcal/capita/day), items 2734 Poultry Meat and 2731 Bovine Meat, Egypt (area 59), read from the FAOSTAT API. Poultry / beef: 2010 42.29 / 47.17; 2017 58.33 / 41.51; 2019 59.31 / 38.48; 2023 72.10 / 32.09. FAO flag E (estimated value). Food supply available for consumption, not measured intake. Ratio is a progrss calculation. FAO database terms (CC BY 4.0).

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