FOOD REQUIREMENTS OF NATIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 3 December 1940, Page 6

FOOD REQUIREMENTS OF NATIONS

INSTRUCTIVE FIGURES The degree to which various countries in the world fall short of supplying their own human food requirements is shown in the following table, published by the German Institute of Business Research. Figures below 100 represent the degree of dependence on imports, while those above 100 show an export surplus:—

SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN FOODSTUFFS IN IMPORTANT COUNTRIES (In Per Cent) COUNTRIES CONTROLLED BY

These figures, of course, refer only to the food requirements of the people. Naturally they misrepresent thj situation in a country like Denm-irk, which can maintain its food production only by importing enormous quantities of livestock feed. This it cannot do under the British blockade. Prevailing conditions in the world have probably upset the relationship of these figures, but they form a useful idea of the countries’ abilities to feed themselves in normal times.

CENTRAL POWERS Germany (Old Territory) ... .... 83 Austria .... 75 Czechoslovakia .... 100 Poland .... 105 Norway ... 43 Denmark ... 103 Netherlands ... 67 Belgium ... 51 France ... 83 OTHER COUNTRIES ON THE CONTINENT Finland ... 78 Sweden ... 91 Portugal ... 94 Spain ... 99 Switzerland ... 47 Greece ... 80 Yugoslavia ... 106 Rumania ... 110 Bulgaria ... 109 Hungary ... 121 Latvia ... 106 Lithuania ... 110 BRITISH EMPIRE Great Britain Irish Free State ... 75 British India New Zealand Australia ... 214 Canada ... 192 OTHER COUNTRIES United States Chile Brazil ... 96 Argentina ... 264 Soviet Russia Japan ... 95 China ... 100