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Table 2.2
Per capita consumption of dairy products by region and subregion, 1987 and 2007
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Per capita
consumption
(kg/yr)
Annual
growth
(%)
Per capita
consumption
(kg/yr)
Annual
growth
(%)
Per capita
consumption
(kg/yr)
Annual
growth
(%)
Region 1987 2007
1987–
2007
1987 2007
1987–
2007
1987 2007
1987–
2007
Developed 4.6 2.8 −2.5 9.91 12.44 1.1 2.83 2.18 −1.3
Former centrally
planned economies
Other developed
countries
6.5 2.1 −5.5 7.57 6.00 −1.2 5.48 1.88 −5.2
3.7 3.0 −1.1 11.14 14.43 1.3 1.46 2.16 2.0
Developing 0.6 1.0 2.7 0.54 0.64 0.9 0.00 0.04 15.1
East and
Southeast Asia
0.1 0.1 1.8 0.11 0.24 3.8 0.00 0.02 10.2
China 0.1 0.1 2.3 0.12 0.23 3.3 0.00 0.01 0.0
Rest of East and
Southeast Asia
0.2 0.2 1.2 0.10 0.26 4.9 0.01 0.03 7.0
Latin America and
the Caribbean
0.7 0.5 −1.3 1.79 1.92 0.3 0.00 0.06 14.6
Brazil 0.8 0.5 −2.5 0.45 0.21 −3.7 0.00 0.00 0.0
Rest of Latin
America
0.6 0.5 −0.7 2.49 2.80 0.6 0.01 0.09 14.6
South Asia 1.0 2.4 4.4 0.00 0.00
India 1.0 2.7 5.2 0.00 0.00
Rest of South Asia 1.2 1.6 1.6 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.00
Near East and
North Africa
2.1 1.9 −0.6 3.33 3.42 0.1 0.01 0.12 17.3
Sub-Saharan Africa 0.2 0.1 −1.1 0.31 0.34 0.4 0.00 0.05 22.4
World 1.5 1.3 −0.8 2.80 2.86 0.1 0.85 0.55 −2.2
Source: Elaboration on data from FAOSTAT, 2011 for consumption and the UN for population data.
Although per capita consumption of dairy products has increased rapidly in
East and Southeast Asia, especially China, since 1987 the growth has started from
a low base and consumption levels are still less than half the average for developing
countries as a whole and less than a quarter of that in LAC (Table 2.1). Growth in
dairy consumption has been limited if not stagnant over the last couple of decades in
both sub-Saharan Africa and the Near East and North Africa, although in the latter
region consumption levels remain relatively high.
As a result of the increase in per capita consumption of milk and other livestock
products in parts of the developing world and population growth in those regions,
people in developing countries are consuming an increasing share of dairy products