Interesting National Food Data

[kato13]

While trying to consider national death rates I was originally looking at net food importer and net food exporter statistics. That does not give a very accurate picture as that is based on economic values and meat is much more expensive per calorie than grains. That makes the "net" values suspect for making concrete analysis.

I then began to research "food self-sufficiency" at a national level.

I found this
http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/006/Y5065M/Y5065M00.HTM

If you look at the second half of PDF 2 and PDF 3 and 4 (under tables) there are some very detailed breakdowns of what percentage of national calories come from which food sources and what percentages are imported.

I am going to continue to look for what the overall ratios are. So far I have only been able to find Japan (which imports about 60% of it's calories). If I cannot find a summary I will see what I can do to process this data.

Looking at Australia (page 26 of PDF 2) they seem to be sitting pretty food wise given their current huge percentages used for feed and export. If they had 50% causalities and were able to use just 10% of the pre war production levels of cereals for food it would translate to over 3000 calories per person per day from cereals alone. I know moving it is a problem, but these seem to be even better numbers that I expected.