Photo: Ray Witlin, World Bank
FAO data and FFI’s calculations show that the adjusted amounts of wheat globally available for human consumption and of industrially milled wheat flour available largely remained static between 2023 and 2024. When only considering countries FFI categorizes as good opportunities for fortification (adjusted), the percentage of industrially milled wheat flour that is fortified also decreased from 30.8% to 30.7%.
(a) FAO data with additional, openly available data sources.
2023 estimates: 2021 FAOSTAT, Supply Utilization Accounts, Food (element 5141) 2021 Data: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/SCL
2024 estimates: 2022 FAOSTAT, Supply Utilization Accounts, Food (element 5141) 2022 Data: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/SCL
(b) FFI calculations.
