Cost of a Healthy Diet, 2017

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Cost of a Healthy Diet, 2017: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Country	Cost of a healthy diet (PPP dollars per person per day)
JapanJPNEastern Asia	5.48
JamaicaJAMCaribbean	4.88
South KoreaKOREastern Asia	4.73
GuyanaGUYSouth America	4.62
ComorosCOMEastern Africa	4.47
GrenadaGRDCaribbean	4.43
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia	4.43
SurinameSURSouth America	4.40
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean	4.30
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	4.25
BahamasBHSCaribbean	4.20
PanamaPANCentral America	4.19
DominicaDMACaribbean	4.17
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia	4.14
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	4.11
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	4.11
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia	4.11
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	4.10
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe	4.07
HaitiHTICaribbean	3.93
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	3.86
Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia	3.86
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	3.81
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean	3.77
LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	3.74

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3.05. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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