Food in Iran

Country Food Similarity Index
2020 (Version 3)

Similarity compared to Iran

• Method 1: Unweighted
• Method 2: Weighted

Rank	Country	Unweighted Data	Food Group Based	Average
1	Iraq	82.4	83.4	82.9
2	Jordan	81.5	82.6	82.0
3	Turkey	80.2	81.0	80.6
4	Lebanon	79.2	79.8	79.5
5	Albania	78.6	78.9	78.7
6	Syria	78.1	78.6	78.3
7	Kuwait	76.4	78.5	77.4
8	Israel	75.9	78.4	77.2
9	Azerbaijan	75.8	76.0	75.9
10	Greece	75.8	75.3	75.5
11	Italy	75.3	74.3	74.8
12	United Arab Emirates	73.7	75.2	74.4
13	Algeria	73.8	75.1	74.4
14	Qatar	73.6	75.2	74.4
15	Libya	73.6	75.0	74.3
16	Bahrain	73.3	74.4	73.9
17	Yemen	72.6	75.1	73.8
18	Armenia	73.8	73.8	73.8
19	Morocco	72.9	74.4	73.6
20	Malta	73.3	73.7	73.5
21	Tunisia	73.2	73.8	73.5
22	Oman	73.2	73.4	73.3
23	Montenegro	73.1	72.6	72.8
24	Georgia	72.5	73.1	72.8
25	Afghanistan	72.3	73.3	72.8
26	Saudi Arabia	71.2	74.1	72.7
27	Bulgaria	72.9	71.1	72.0
28	Romania	72.4	71.4	71.9
29	Bosnia	71.6	72.0	71.8
30	Cyprus	72.0	71.5	71.7
31	Spain	71.9	71.3	71.6
32	Luxembourg	70.7	72.4	71.6
33	Mauritius	70.4	72.5	71.4
34	France	70.8	72.0	71.4
35	Egypt	71.2	71.5	71.4
36	Moldova	70.9	71.3	71.1
37	Australia	69.5	72.4	70.9
38	Switzerland	70.6	71.2	70.9
39	United Kingdom	69.4	71.2	70.3
40	Russia	69.2	71.2	70.2
41	Chile	69.9	70.5	70.2
42	Kazakhstan	70.4	70.0	70.2
43	Croatia	70.1	70.3	70.2
44	Serbia	69.3	70.1	69.7
45	Uzbekistan	68.8	70.5	69.7
46	Hungary	70.2	69.1	69.6
47	Argentina	68.5	70.7	69.6
48	North Macedonia	69.3	69.6	69.4
49	Portugal	69.5	69.2	69.4
50	Pakistan	68.0	69.2	68.6
51	Canada	67.9	68.9	68.4
52	Slovenia	68.5	68.1	68.3
53	Slovakia	68.2	68.2	68.2
54	Czechia	68.4	67.8	68.1
55	Norway	66.6	69.1	67.9
56	Kyrgyzstan	68.1	67.6	67.9
57	Sweden	66.9	68.8	67.8
58	Lithuania	67.2	68.0	67.6
59	United States	67.2	68.0	67.6
60	Germany	67.5	67.5	67.5
61	Tajikistan	66.8	67.6	67.2
62	Ukraine	67.2	67.1	67.2
63	Iceland	65.6	68.7	67.2
64	Turkmenistan	66.9	67.3	67.1
65	Ireland	66.4	67.6	67.0
66	New Zealand	64.9	68.6	66.8
67	Austria	67.0	66.3	66.7
68	Seychelles	65.3	66.6	66.0
69	New Caledonia	63.3	68.1	65.7
70	Denmark	64.1	66.9	65.5
71	Djibouti	64.4	66.4	65.4
72	China	65.8	65.0	65.4
73	Maldives	65.0	64.9	64.9
74	Ecuador	63.3	66.4	64.8
75	Uruguay	63.7	65.5	64.6
76	Barbados	63.4	65.7	64.6
77	Netherlands	63.7	65.2	64.5
78	Belgium	64.0	64.7	64.3
79	Finland	63.0	65.6	64.3
80	Japan	63.9	64.4	64.2
81	Taiwan	63.6	64.2	63.9
82	Costa Rica	61.3	66.1	63.7
83	Peru	62.6	64.6	63.6
84	Bolivia	62.0	64.5	63.3
85	South Korea	62.8	62.5	62.7
86	Colombia	61.6	63.5	62.6
87	Poland	62.8	62.3	62.5
88	Estonia	62.3	62.7	62.5
89	South Africa	60.4	64.0	62.2
90	Grenada	61.2	63.2	62.2
91	Latvia	61.6	62.3	61.9
92	French Polynesia	58.9	64.5	61.7
93	Cape Verde	61.2	62.0	61.6
94	Botswana	61.2	61.5	61.3
95	Antigua & Barbuda	59.0	63.6	61.3
96	Mexico	60.4	62.0	61.2
97	Trinidad & Tobago	59.6	62.7	61.1
98	Malaysia	59.9	62.4	61.1
99	Belarus	60.7	61.4	61.1
100	Bahamas	59.2	62.9	61.1
101	Mauritania	60.0	61.5	60.7
102	Namibia	59.1	62.1	60.6
103	Brazil	59.7	61.3	60.5
104	India	59.4	61.2	60.3
105	Eswatini	59.7	60.5	60.1
106	Venezuela	58.7	60.8	59.8
107	Mongolia	57.7	60.6	59.1
108	El Salvador	58.0	60.0	59.0
109	Guatemala	57.9	59.9	58.9
110	Belize	57.1	59.2	58.2
111	Bangladesh	57.6	58.4	58.0
112	Nepal	57.3	58.7	58.0
113	Suriname	56.8	59.1	58.0
114	Panama	55.4	59.9	57.7
115	Lesotho	56.9	58.0	57.4
116	North Korea	57.5	56.4	56.9
117	Dominican Republic	55.3	58.0	56.6
118	St. Lucia	55.4	57.8	56.6
119	Fiji	54.7	57.2	55.9
120	Guyana	54.0	57.7	55.8
121	Thailand	55.2	55.8	55.5
122	Honduras	54.4	56.5	55.5
123	Cuba	53.7	56.5	55.1
124	Jamaica	54.0	55.8	54.9
125	Sri Lanka	52.7	56.2	54.5
126	Bhutan	52.4	56.1	54.2
127	Senegal	51.7	54.7	53.2
128	Paraguay	53.3	52.9	53.1
129	Kenya	51.1	53.8	52.5
130	Indonesia	51.4	53.5	52.5
131	Philippines	50.7	52.9	51.8
132	Nicaragua	50.0	53.1	51.6
133	St. Vincent	48.6	51.7	50.2
134	Mali	48.7	51.3	50.0
135	Vietnam	49.4	50.0	49.7
136	Sudan	48.5	50.0	49.3
137	Haiti	47.0	49.9	48.4
138	Sao Tome	46.9	48.1	47.5
139	Tanzania	46.0	48.8	47.4
140	Madagascar	44.8	48.9	46.8
141	Gabon	44.8	48.2	46.5
142	Mozambique	46.4	45.8	46.1
143	East Timor	42.6	47.6	45.1
144	Gambia	42.9	47.2	45.0
145	Comoros	42.3	47.6	45.0
146	Myanmar	42.1	47.7	44.9
147	Samoa	42.4	46.9	44.7
148	Rep. of Congo	43.1	45.9	44.5
149	Zimbabwe	43.6	45.1	44.4
150	Niger	41.2	45.1	43.1
151	Cameroon	41.5	44.6	43.0
152	Ivory Coast	40.4	44.7	42.5
153	Guinea-Bissau	40.3	44.4	42.4
154	Laos	41.2	42.8	42.0
155	Guinea	39.2	44.8	42.0
156	Angola	40.3	42.5	41.4
157	Rwanda	40.0	42.5	41.3
158	Malawi	40.2	42.3	41.2
159	Zambia	38.7	43.3	41.0
160	Vanuatu	38.8	43.1	40.9
161	Ghana	38.9	42.9	40.9
162	Benin	39.0	42.5	40.8
163	Burkina Faso	39.4	41.8	40.6
164	Kiribati	39.0	42.0	40.5
165	Ethiopia	38.7	41.6	40.1
166	Liberia	37.1	42.2	39.7
167	Nigeria	37.2	41.5	39.3
168	Cambodia	37.5	40.8	39.1
169	Togo	36.0	41.2	38.6
170	Sierra Leone	35.5	39.1	37.3
171	Solomon Islands	35.4	38.7	37.0
172	Papua New Guinea	35.9	37.7	36.8
173	Uganda	35.1	37.3	36.2
174	Dem. Rep. of Congo	32.0	35.6	33.8
175	Chad	32.0	35.5	33.7
176	South Sudan	31.7	34.9	33.3
177	Burundi	30.6	34.0	32.3
178	Micronesia	29.6	34.0	31.8
179	Central African Rep.	28.5	31.4	30.0