Australia Sorghum and products Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr)

Australia Sorghum and products Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr): Key Points

• Bookending the series — 2014 at 0.1300 kg/cap, 2023 at 0.0200 kg/cap — puts Australia's sorghum and products Food supply quantity down by roughly 85% across the full window.
• 2016: surges to 0.2700 kg/cap (+170%).
• 2019: leaps to 0.2100 kg/cap (+75%).
• 2022: spikes to 0.2300 kg/cap (+156%).
• 2023: falls away sharply to 0.0200 kg/cap (-91%).
• By the last year on record, 2023, the figure sits at 0.0200 kg/cap — 84.6% below 2014.

Making Sense Of The Swings

Don't anchor on the most recent year. With this much back-and-forth, the latest reading is one data point among several similarly-weighted ones, not the start of a new trend.

Timing matters here: 2020 is when most of the world went through some version of pandemic disruption. This chart's dip landing in that same year is worth keeping in mind, even without certainty about the specific cause.

Before drawing a conclusion from this chart alone, check how Australia compares to similar countries on sorghum and products Food supply quantity — the shape of this one line can look dramatic or unremarkable depending entirely on what it's measured against.

This series reflects Australia's official reporting via the linked source. Statistics of this kind are typically benchmarked against periodic censuses or surveys, with intervening years estimated.

This is a small production volume in absolute terms — at this scale, a single farm, processing plant, or even one bad harvest can move the national total by a large percentage. Don't read year-to-year swings here as an economy-wide signal.