Food in Italy

Country Food Similarity Index
2020 (Version 3)

Similarity compared to Italy

• Method 1: Unweighted
• Method 2: Weighted

Rank	Country	Unweighted Data	Food Group Based	Average
1	France	85.0	86.8	85.9
2	Greece	83.9	84.6	84.3
3	Malta	83.7	84.6	84.1
4	Luxembourg	83.0	84.7	83.8
5	Spain	83.4	84.0	83.7
6	Croatia	81.9	83.0	82.5
7	Portugal	81.9	82.4	82.1
8	Montenegro	80.5	81.5	81.0
9	Switzerland	80.2	80.7	80.4
10	Chile	78.9	79.6	79.2
11	Cyprus	78.4	78.8	78.6
12	Belgium	78.2	78.7	78.4
13	Hungary	77.6	77.9	77.8
14	United Kingdom	77.4	78.1	77.7
15	Bulgaria	77.4	77.8	77.6
16	Sweden	76.7	78.4	77.6
17	Slovenia	77.0	77.7	77.4
18	Austria	76.8	77.9	77.4
19	Canada	76.9	77.6	77.2
20	Germany	76.7	77.5	77.1
21	Norway	76.5	77.5	77.0
22	Australia	76.2	76.4	76.3
23	Netherlands	75.8	76.0	75.9
24	Ireland	74.8	76.9	75.8
25	Lebanon	76.1	75.5	75.8
26	Slovakia	75.4	75.9	75.6
27	United States	75.4	75.8	75.6
28	Czechia	74.9	76.0	75.5
29	Israel	75.6	75.2	75.4
30	Jordan	75.5	74.3	74.9
31	Iran	75.3	74.3	74.8
32	Argentina	74.9	74.2	74.6
33	Denmark	73.9	75.2	74.5
34	Albania	73.6	75.4	74.5
35	Turkey	74.6	74.3	74.5
36	Iceland	73.6	75.1	74.4
37	Romania	73.9	74.7	74.3
38	Lithuania	73.2	74.9	74.1
39	New Zealand	73.1	74.1	73.6
40	Russia	72.8	74.1	73.5
41	Syria	73.0	73.3	73.1
42	Bosnia	71.8	73.4	72.6
43	Finland	71.6	73.4	72.5
44	Georgia	72.0	72.8	72.4
45	Moldova	71.7	72.4	72.1
46	Uruguay	71.9	72.2	72.0
47	Estonia	71.1	72.4	71.8
48	Tunisia	71.7	71.0	71.4
49	Serbia	71.0	71.6	71.3
50	Ukraine	70.5	71.8	71.1
51	Latvia	70.1	72.0	71.1
52	United Arab Emirates	71.1	70.6	70.9
53	Mauritius	70.7	71.0	70.9
54	Barbados	70.7	71.0	70.8
55	Iraq	70.4	70.6	70.5
56	Bahrain	70.7	70.3	70.5
57	Kuwait	70.6	70.2	70.4
58	North Macedonia	68.8	71.9	70.3
59	Poland	69.3	70.7	70.0
60	New Caledonia	68.7	71.2	69.9
61	Algeria	69.5	69.9	69.7
62	Azerbaijan	69.6	69.6	69.6
63	Armenia	68.5	69.3	68.9
64	Morocco	69.6	68.2	68.9
65	Japan	68.3	69.3	68.8
66	Seychelles	67.7	68.4	68.1
67	Qatar	68.1	67.1	67.6
68	Oman	66.8	66.7	66.8
69	Peru	66.6	66.6	66.6
70	Antigua & Barbuda	65.9	67.2	66.5
71	Ecuador	66.1	66.7	66.4
72	Egypt	66.4	66.2	66.3
73	Trinidad & Tobago	66.1	66.5	66.3
74	Saudi Arabia	66.3	66.2	66.2
75	Mexico	65.9	66.4	66.1
76	Taiwan	65.7	66.4	66.0
77	Libya	66.2	65.7	65.9
78	Bahamas	64.6	66.4	65.5
79	China	65.4	65.4	65.4
80	Kazakhstan	65.3	65.5	65.4
81	South Korea	64.7	65.9	65.3
82	Colombia	64.5	64.9	64.7
83	Belarus	64.1	64.9	64.5
84	Namibia	63.7	65.1	64.4
85	Costa Rica	63.7	64.8	64.2
86	Grenada	63.7	64.7	64.2
87	Maldives	63.9	64.2	64.1
88	Belize	62.7	64.6	63.7
89	Bolivia	63.9	63.4	63.6
90	Botswana	63.1	63.2	63.1
91	Kyrgyzstan	62.6	63.0	62.8
92	French Polynesia	61.4	64.0	62.7
93	Cape Verde	62.0	62.9	62.5
94	South Africa	62.3	62.5	62.4
95	Afghanistan	62.2	62.4	62.3
96	Yemen	62.9	61.6	62.2
97	Lesotho	61.6	62.8	62.2
98	Brazil	62.1	62.3	62.2
99	Uzbekistan	61.7	62.1	61.9
100	Venezuela	60.8	61.6	61.2
101	Malaysia	60.8	61.1	61.0
102	Pakistan	61.4	60.4	60.9
103	St. Lucia	60.3	61.3	60.8
104	Guatemala	59.9	61.3	60.6
105	Panama	59.4	61.1	60.2
106	El Salvador	59.6	60.0	59.8
107	Djibouti	59.2	59.1	59.1
108	Mongolia	58.4	59.3	58.8
109	Tajikistan	58.1	58.4	58.3
110	Eswatini	57.9	58.2	58.1
111	St. Vincent	57.0	58.4	57.7
112	North Korea	56.8	58.6	57.7
113	Thailand	57.1	57.8	57.5
114	Honduras	57.1	57.8	57.5
115	Turkmenistan	57.4	57.3	57.4
116	Suriname	56.8	57.6	57.2
117	Jamaica	56.4	57.9	57.2
118	Mauritania	56.2	56.1	56.1
119	Nepal	56.3	55.8	56.0
120	Dominican Republic	54.2	56.7	55.5
121	India	54.9	55.3	55.1
122	Paraguay	54.9	54.8	54.9
123	Fiji	54.2	55.0	54.6
124	Bhutan	53.8	55.0	54.4
125	Philippines	53.2	55.0	54.1
126	Nicaragua	52.5	54.3	53.4
127	Bangladesh	52.8	52.4	52.6
128	Guyana	50.9	54.3	52.6
129	Cuba	51.9	53.3	52.6
130	Sri Lanka	50.3	51.6	50.9
131	Vietnam	49.9	51.9	50.9
132	Indonesia	50.4	50.5	50.4
133	Madagascar	47.5	51.5	49.5
134	Kenya	48.6	50.1	49.4
135	Haiti	48.6	50.1	49.3
136	Sao Tome	47.7	49.8	48.7
137	Senegal	47.5	48.7	48.1
138	Rep. of Congo	47.4	47.9	47.7
139	Gabon	46.5	48.4	47.4
140	Mozambique	45.6	47.7	46.6
141	Zimbabwe	45.7	45.5	45.6
142	East Timor	43.8	46.8	45.3
143	Samoa	43.4	45.7	44.5
144	Tanzania	43.6	45.1	44.3
145	Angola	43.7	44.7	44.2
146	Mali	43.3	45.0	44.2
147	Sudan	43.4	44.7	44.0
148	Laos	42.1	44.1	43.1
149	Myanmar	41.1	44.5	42.8
150	Rwanda	42.7	42.6	42.6
151	Comoros	41.8	43.4	42.6
152	Cambodia	41.2	43.0	42.1
153	Malawi	41.6	42.4	42.0
154	Guinea-Bissau	40.5	42.7	41.6
155	Ivory Coast	40.1	42.8	41.5
156	Zambia	39.9	42.5	41.2
157	Gambia	41.0	41.3	41.1
158	Vanuatu	39.9	42.3	41.1
159	Kiribati	40.1	41.8	40.9
160	Cameroon	39.9	42.0	40.9
161	Liberia	38.9	42.5	40.7
162	Burkina Faso	38.4	40.6	39.5
163	Guinea	37.6	40.1	38.8
164	Ghana	37.5	39.7	38.6
165	Togo	36.3	40.1	38.2
166	Ethiopia	39.0	37.4	38.2
167	Uganda	37.1	38.6	37.9
168	Nigeria	35.6	39.8	37.7
169	Niger	36.0	38.9	37.4
170	Benin	35.9	38.6	37.3
171	Papua New Guinea	36.2	37.7	36.9
172	Solomon Islands	35.1	37.9	36.5
173	Dem. Rep. of Congo	34.1	38.6	36.3
174	Burundi	35.1	37.0	36.1
175	Sierra Leone	34.6	36.2	35.4
176	Micronesia	31.4	34.5	33.0
177	Central African Rep.	32.2	33.7	32.9
178	South Sudan	31.4	31.0	31.2
179	Chad	30.4	30.1	30.2