Explore how food is produced, traded and supplied across OIC member countries. Turn complex Food Balance Sheet data into clear insights, ready for better decisions.
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OIC FOOD BALANCE · EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW
The whole region, at a glance.
Production, imports and exports across all 57 OIC members. Explore four mutually exclusive geographic/Arab groups and reporting coverage.
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Sum of available FAOSTAT production quantities for OIC member countries. National production, not the entire world and not the complete 57-country estimate when reporting is partial.
Sum of OIC member countries' imports from all trading partners — other OIC members and non-OIC countries combined. Food Balance Sheets do not identify trade partners; intra-/extra-OIC trade cannot be separated here.
Sum of OIC member countries' exports to all trading partners — including other OIC members. Exports and imports here must not be interpreted as OIC-external flows.
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Where do the totals come from?
Arab · Asia · Africa · Other (Europe & Americas) · shares of reported OIC totals
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Regional contribution, not country ranking
Each bar is 100% of one reported OIC total (production, imports or exports). Each color is the summed share of a mutually exclusive regional group. E.g. a small Arab segment for exports means Arab members contribute a smaller share of OIC exports, not that every Arab country exports little. Bars include only reporting countries.
Trade includes intra-OIC and extra-OIC partners. Missing data are excluded.
The regional trajectory
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How should we interpret these lines?
They show the sums of available country observations for {{overviewItem}}. Production uses the left vertical scale; imports and exports use the right scale. Line heights are therefore not directly comparable even though all series use 1,000 tonnes.
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A change in quantities alone cannot establish its cause. Trade partner split is unavailable here; coverage can vary over time.
Totals are the sum of countries with an available FAOSTAT Food Balance value; no reporting is never treated as zero. Coverage is shown for each metric and year. The four subregions partition the 57 OIC states once each (Arab first; remaining Asia/Africa; Other = Albania, Guyana, Suriname). Do not add totals across overlapping food commodity categories.
OIC regional summary is temporarily unavailable. Country-level exploration remains available.
EXPLORE THE OIC UNIVERSE
57 countries. Four regions. One interactive atlas.
This radial map shows membership counts, not food quantities. Every country appears once. Select an outer ring to focus the explorer on a region or member.
Arab · 22Asia · 15Africa · 17Other · 3
The overview
Food supply at a glance
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Countries reporting
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Countries with published values for this selection
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OIC COUNTRY MEDIAN
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OIC MINIMUM REPORTED
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Comparisons use the selected year, item and indicator across all reporting OIC countries, even if the explorer is filtered to a subgroup. The weighted mean uses only countries with both the indicator and the same-year population observed; missing observations are never zero. A higher value is not necessarily a better outcome.
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EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE
Food systems, in motion.
Three connected perspectives on member-country reporting. Select any country or year to explore further.
Food Intelligence Atlas
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Click a colored or gray member country to inspect it; the highlighted extremes are for the selected indicator, item, year and country group. Hover shows the exact value and reporting status. Zoom or pan with the mouse.
Ranking Race
Explore how country rankings change across reporting years
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Gold = #1, blue = #2, bronze = #3 within the selected group and year; remaining countries are teal. Colors represent rank, not the currently selected country. Unreported countries are never assigned zero.
From Supply to Food Use
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Food balance, not a shipment route map
Production and imports feed an accounting supply pool; exports, stock variations and domestic use reduce or redistribute it. Food available is an estimate of national supply for human use, not actual eating.
In the OIC aggregate view, national balances are summed. Intra-OIC trade may appear in both imports and exports, so this is not a single physical OIC-wide shipment network. Different components may have different reporting coverage. Reconciliation gaps are labelled as calculated, not FAO observations.
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National FAOSTAT production and imports; both quantities are reported in thousand tonnes and refer to all trade partners.
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This comparison is descriptive; it does not establish import dependence, self-sufficiency or why imports are high. Food use, exports, stocks and other sources must be assessed. Open the sourced events section below to investigate plausible context.
FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets, all in 1,000 t. Country view is a national supply/use balance; OIC view sums national balances and can count intra-OIC trade on both sides. Reconciliation differences are calculated for this chart, not observed FAO categories. Food is available supply, not food actually eaten. Long node names are wrapped rather than truncated.
Who leads the region?
{{rankingSide==='top'?'Top':'Bottom'}} 12 reporting countries · {{item}} · {{year}} · Higher is not necessarily better
How has it changed over time?
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Focused axis truncates zero deliberately. 2010=100 shows change relative to each country's own baseline. FX overlay = selected country's annual official currency per USD, indexed to its 2010 value (right axis); it is context, not causal evidence. {{fxSeries.length?'':'No exchange-rate series loaded for this country.'}}
BEYOND THE NUMBERS
Understand the story behind the food balance.
The FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets describe national food supply and its uses, including production, imports, exports and food available for consumption. Compare like-for-like indicators and units to explore differences between countries and across years.
◎Missing observations are excluded, not treated as zero. Country averages shown here are not population-weighted.
◇Commodity entries can overlap with aggregate categories; the commodity chart is a comparison, not a percentage composition.
Comparing product-level entries. Broad totals such as Vegetal Products and Cereals – Excluding Beer are excluded from this ranking. Some entries still include processed products or residual groups.
Comparing FAOSTAT aggregate food groups. A group such as Cereals – Excluding Beer can be contained within Vegetal Products. Values are not additive and are not percentage shares.
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FAOSTAT broad food groups can contain other groups and commodities. Even product entries may represent processed or residual categories. These are comparisons within the same indicator and unit, not a disjoint decomposition. Do not add them as if they were independent or interpret them as percentage shares.
Shared top-three commodity pattern
Countries with the same three highest product entries in {{year}} for {{selectedIndicator?.name}}, regardless of their internal order. No assumptions about causes.
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No other OIC countries share exactly this top-three set in the available data.
CONTEXT, NOT CAUSATION
What happened in {{selectedCountry}} in {{year}}?
Events are retrieved by country and year; topic matches are shown first and broader context is marked separately. Even a matching event is never automatically treated as the explanation for a FAOSTAT value.
No verified event in this curated catalogue for this selection.Not evidence that nothing happened. Consult country archives.
FAOSTAT FBS estimates availability. Individual 24-hour recalls and weighed food records measure actual intake; household consumption/expenditure surveys indicate apparent household consumption. These are different sources and must not be directly spliced into the FBS series.