Food in Japan

Country Food Similarity Index
2020

Similarity compared to Japan

Rank	Country	Unweighted Data	Food Group Based	Average
1	South Korea	83.7	84.4	84.0
2	Taiwan	81.8	82.3	82.1
3	Malaysia	77.5	78.0	77.8
4	China	74.0	75.6	74.8
5	Seychelles	74.3	74.7	74.5
6	Mauritius	73.8	74.5	74.1
7	Canada	73.5	73.9	73.7
8	Australia	73.5	73.3	73.4
9	Thailand	72.8	73.8	73.3
10	Qatar	72.9	73.7	73.3
11	United States	72.8	73.5	73.2
12	Barbados	72.7	73.0	72.9
13	New Zealand	72.9	72.4	72.6
14	France	72.7	72.3	72.5
15	Bahrain	72.7	71.9	72.3
16	Cape Verde	70.8	73.5	72.2
17	Costa Rica	71.5	72.8	72.1
18	North Korea	70.4	73.5	72.0
19	Portugal	71.7	72.2	71.9
20	Ecuador	71.5	72.3	71.9
21	Malta	71.5	72.1	71.8
22	United Kingdom	71.4	71.4	71.4
23	Cyprus	70.2	70.4	70.3
24	Luxembourg	70.2	69.9	70.0
25	Austria	70.3	69.6	69.9
26	United Arab Emirates	70.0	69.8	69.9
27	Chile	69.6	69.9	69.8
28	Ireland	69.9	69.6	69.7
29	Israel	70.0	69.3	69.6
30	Peru	68.3	70.7	69.5
31	Colombia	69.0	69.9	69.4
32	Germany	69.8	69.1	69.4
33	Trinidad & Tobago	69.2	69.6	69.4
34	New Caledonia	69.0	69.6	69.3
35	Bahamas	68.8	69.7	69.2
36	Slovenia	69.0	69.1	69.1
37	Kuwait	69.0	69.1	69.0
38	Panama	68.5	69.4	68.9
39	Philippines	68.3	69.5	68.9
40	Italy	68.3	69.3	68.8
41	Sweden	69.1	68.4	68.8
42	Netherlands	68.4	69.1	68.7
43	Belize	68.2	69.1	68.7
44	Maldives	68.7	68.6	68.7
45	Switzerland	68.4	68.6	68.5
46	Ukraine	67.5	69.2	68.3
47	Grenada	67.7	68.7	68.2
48	Norway	68.1	68.3	68.2
49	Mexico	67.3	69.0	68.2
50	Spain	67.8	68.2	68.0
51	Russia	67.5	68.3	67.9
52	Iceland	68.0	67.6	67.8
53	Suriname	66.7	68.9	67.8
54	Venezuela	66.8	68.7	67.7
55	Indonesia	67.4	67.9	67.7
56	Uruguay	67.6	67.2	67.4
57	Croatia	67.4	67.2	67.3
58	Oman	66.8	67.5	67.2
59	Fiji	67.1	67.1	67.1
60	French Polynesia	66.0	68.0	67.0
61	Brazil	66.4	67.5	67.0
62	Saudi Arabia	67.0	66.9	67.0
63	Antigua & Barbuda	66.0	67.7	66.8
64	Romania	66.4	66.9	66.7
65	Finland	66.6	66.6	66.6
66	Denmark	67.0	66.1	66.5
67	Lithuania	66.8	66.3	66.5
68	Georgia	65.9	67.1	66.5
69	South Africa	66.6	66.2	66.4
70	Czechia	66.6	66.2	66.4
71	Latvia	66.4	66.2	66.3
72	Estonia	66.5	66.1	66.3
73	Vietnam	66.1	66.4	66.2
74	St. Lucia	65.6	66.5	66.0
75	Jamaica	64.9	66.8	65.8
76	Namibia	66.1	65.2	65.6
77	Moldova	65.2	65.9	65.6
78	Bosnia	64.8	66.0	65.4
79	Argentina	65.2	65.5	65.3
80	Belgium	65.6	65.0	65.3
81	Greece	64.6	65.5	65.0
82	Jordan	65.1	64.8	65.0
83	Egypt	64.2	65.7	64.9
84	Slovakia	65.1	64.4	64.7
85	El Salvador	64.0	65.4	64.7
86	Bulgaria	64.7	64.7	64.7
87	Lebanon	63.4	65.9	64.7
88	Bolivia	64.3	64.7	64.5
89	Sri Lanka	63.2	65.7	64.4
90	Nicaragua	63.7	64.9	64.3
91	Turkey	62.9	65.5	64.2
92	Botswana	64.8	63.6	64.2
93	Montenegro	64.0	64.4	64.2
94	Iran	63.9	64.4	64.2
95	Cuba	63.4	64.2	63.8
96	Dominican Republic	61.6	65.9	63.8
97	Serbia	62.5	63.8	63.1
98	Eswatini	62.6	63.3	63.0
99	Belarus	62.9	62.9	62.9
100	Guyana	60.6	64.9	62.7
101	Honduras	62.3	63.1	62.7
102	India	61.0	64.3	62.7
103	Hungary	62.9	62.4	62.7
104	Morocco	61.4	63.0	62.2
105	Poland	61.7	61.4	61.6
106	Armenia	60.6	62.4	61.5
107	Albania	59.9	63.1	61.5
108	Guatemala	60.5	62.1	61.3
109	Iraq	60.4	62.2	61.3
110	Bhutan	60.4	61.8	61.1
111	Mauritania	61.4	60.8	61.1
112	Bangladesh	59.8	61.5	60.7
113	North Macedonia	58.7	61.8	60.3
114	Yemen	59.6	59.9	59.7
115	Lesotho	59.1	60.0	59.6
116	Kazakhstan	59.2	59.9	59.6
117	Senegal	58.5	59.9	59.2
118	Haiti	58.2	60.0	59.1
119	Sao Tome	58.5	59.6	59.1
120	East Timor	57.9	59.9	58.9
121	St. Vincent	58.3	59.2	58.8
122	Azerbaijan	58.1	59.0	58.5
123	Pakistan	58.4	58.4	58.4
124	Libya	57.3	59.1	58.2
125	Nepal	57.4	58.9	58.1
126	Algeria	55.4	60.8	58.1
127	Tunisia	56.0	59.9	58.0
128	Djibouti	57.2	58.6	57.9
129	Paraguay	57.1	58.5	57.8
130	Syria	55.4	58.2	56.8
131	Madagascar	53.8	59.1	56.5
132	Kyrgyzstan	56.0	56.9	56.4
133	Samoa	54.9	56.3	55.6
134	Mozambique	54.6	56.2	55.4
135	Gabon	55.7	54.1	54.9
136	Afghanistan	54.5	55.2	54.9
137	Kenya	54.1	55.3	54.7
138	Vanuatu	53.6	55.3	54.4
139	Uzbekistan	53.0	53.7	53.3
140	Rep. of Congo	53.2	53.2	53.2
141	Myanmar	52.4	53.8	53.1
142	Mongolia	52.5	52.8	52.6
143	Cameroon	50.8	54.4	52.6
144	Ivory Coast	53.1	52.1	52.6
145	Angola	52.9	52.3	52.6
146	Comoros	52.4	52.8	52.6
147	Gambia	52.8	52.2	52.5
148	Laos	51.9	52.8	52.3
149	Turkmenistan	51.8	52.3	52.1
150	Mali	49.9	53.4	51.6
151	Kiribati	50.7	52.1	51.4
152	Liberia	50.0	52.5	51.2
153	Tajikistan	50.4	51.4	50.9
154	Cambodia	50.9	50.1	50.5
155	Guinea	50.0	50.5	50.2
156	Rwanda	47.2	50.9	49.1
157	Tanzania	48.9	49.2	49.0
158	Zimbabwe	49.1	48.9	49.0
159	Burkina Faso	48.4	49.0	48.7
160	Zambia	47.9	49.4	48.7
161	Guinea-Bissau	47.3	49.4	48.4
162	Benin	48.1	48.6	48.3
163	Solomon Islands	47.6	48.4	48.0
164	Malawi	46.7	49.1	47.9
165	Nigeria	45.2	50.5	47.8
166	Sierra Leone	46.2	48.6	47.4
167	Papua New Guinea	47.4	47.2	47.3
168	Micronesia	45.1	46.1	45.6
169	Ethiopia	45.9	44.9	45.4
170	Ghana	45.4	45.3	45.4
171	Uganda	44.1	45.7	44.9
172	Togo	43.2	45.0	44.1
173	Sudan	43.1	44.5	43.8
174	Dem. Rep. of Congo	40.9	44.5	42.7
175	Niger	40.7	41.7	41.2
176	Burundi	39.5	42.7	41.1
177	Chad	37.3	36.2	36.7
178	South Sudan	36.1	36.1	36.1
179	Central African Rep.	35.7	35.5	35.6