Cost of a Healthy Diet, 2021

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Cost of a Healthy Diet, 2021: 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	5.98
GuyanaGUYSouth America	5.90
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	5.55
South KoreaKOREastern Asia	5.55
SurinameSURSouth America	5.44
DominicaDMACaribbean	5.26
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia	5.14
SyriaSYRWestern Asia	5.01
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia	4.95
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean	4.92
JamaicaJAMCaribbean	4.90
HaitiHTICaribbean	4.88
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean	4.87
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	4.85
GrenadaGRDCaribbean	4.59
Saint LuciaLCACaribbean	4.57
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe	4.54
ComorosCOMEastern Africa	4.48
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	4.47
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	4.43
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean	4.43
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean	4.41
LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	4.33
LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	4.31
BahamasBHSCaribbean	4.28

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3.52. “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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