Net per capita cereal supply in 2011 as almost 1lb day; yet only 43% went directly to food
2011 Cereals in domestic supply: 2,179, 238 (1,000 metric tons): (so...2.18 billion) WORLD FOOD BALANCE SHEET 2009 FAOSTAT 8.4. 2013 total Cereal production 2,251,610 2.3 billion tonnes (assume metric tons) Food: 976,861 So 43% of cereals go to food Feed: 746,226 33% of cereals go to feed Other uses of cereal: seed 65,387 waste 95,245 other 97,557 processing 198,632
Data retrieved from FAOSTAT, August 2013. [verified 4/15/14]