2026-05-26 · percent of dietary energy
Meat supplies a minority of calories
Rich diets feel meat-heavy — globally, plant calories still dominate the plate.
Food system grids split calories, waste, or production into equal bites — one cell is one fixed portion of the total. This grid divides global food energy supply (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Plants + dairy eggs and Meat + seafood — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 0.1 percent of dietary energy (0.1% of global food energy supply) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from OWID — Meat production put Plants + dairy eggs at 82% of global food energy supply and Meat + seafood at 18% — about 100 percent of dietary energy in this edition's rounding.
FAO food balance sheets: meat ~17–18% of kcal, rounded.
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