Food in Laos - OBJECTIVE LISTS

Country Food Similarity Index
2020 (Version 3)

Similarity compared to Laos

Rank	Country	Method 1	Method 2	Average
1	Vietnam	74.6	74.9	74.8
2	Cambodia	67.6	69.0	68.3
3	Thailand	67.0	67.1	67.0
4	Philippines	66.6	66.7	66.7
5	Madagascar	63.4	63.7	63.5
6	Indonesia	62.7	63.3	63.0
7	Guinea-Bissau	63.8	61.2	62.5
8	Liberia	62.9	59.6	61.2
9	Myanmar	59.9	60.0	59.9
10	Cuba	59.5	58.6	59.1
11	East Timor	60.0	57.8	58.9
12	Haiti	59.3	58.3	58.8
13	Taiwan	58.6	58.9	58.7
14	Comoros	59.6	57.7	58.7
15	Dominican Republic	58.2	58.9	58.5
16	Suriname	58.1	58.1	58.1
17	Guinea	58.6	56.1	57.3
18	Guyana	57.2	57.3	57.2
19	Peru	57.4	56.8	57.1
20	Venezuela	56.8	56.1	56.4
21	Panama	56.1	56.3	56.2
22	China	54.6	57.3	55.9
23	Ghana	55.1	56.7	55.9
24	Mozambique	53.6	58.0	55.8
25	South Korea	55.4	56.0	55.7
26	Paraguay	55.3	55.0	55.1
27	Dem. Rep. of Congo	52.9	57.2	55.0
28	Brazil	55.0	55.0	55.0
29	Sri Lanka	53.8	56.0	54.9
30	Colombia	54.8	54.7	54.7
31	Ivory Coast	53.9	55.2	54.6
32	Bangladesh	54.8	54.3	54.5
33	Costa Rica	54.2	54.7	54.5
34	Gabon	55.4	53.5	54.4
35	Nicaragua	54.3	54.2	54.3
36	Tanzania	53.6	55.0	54.3
37	Malaysia	53.6	53.9	53.8
38	Bahamas	53.5	53.6	53.5
39	Cameroon	52.5	54.0	53.3
40	Ecuador	53.2	53.2	53.2
41	Uganda	51.9	54.2	53.1
42	Jamaica	52.6	53.1	52.8
43	Angola	51.3	54.1	52.7
44	India	50.3	54.5	52.4
45	Japan	51.9	52.8	52.3
46	Rep. of Congo	51.9	52.7	52.3
47	Fiji	52.1	51.8	51.9
48	Cape Verde	51.4	52.3	51.9
49	Senegal	51.9	51.8	51.9
50	Malawi	50.1	53.5	51.8
51	Sierra Leone	52.9	50.6	51.8
52	Central African Rep.	50.4	52.8	51.6
53	Bolivia	51.7	51.2	51.4
54	Sao Tome	50.6	51.6	51.1
55	Grenada	50.8	50.9	50.8
56	Micronesia	50.4	51.1	50.8
57	Burundi	47.5	53.9	50.7
58	Nepal	50.0	51.2	50.6
59	Nigeria	48.8	52.4	50.6
60	Papua New Guinea	50.9	50.1	50.5
61	French Polynesia	50.2	50.6	50.4
62	Kiribati	50.2	50.5	50.4
63	Belize	49.9	50.3	50.1
64	Samoa	50.1	50.1	50.1
65	St. Lucia	50.0	49.7	49.8
66	Benin	49.2	50.5	49.8
67	Maldives	49.6	50.0	49.8
68	Mexico	49.3	50.2	49.7
69	Trinidad & Tobago	49.4	49.8	49.6
70	Bahrain	49.4	49.7	49.6
71	Mali	48.0	50.8	49.4
72	Vanuatu	49.1	49.5	49.3
73	North Korea	48.2	50.2	49.2
74	Kenya	49.5	48.9	49.2
75	Seychelles	48.6	49.0	48.8
76	St. Vincent	48.7	48.7	48.7
77	Uruguay	48.5	48.8	48.6
78	Rwanda	46.6	50.4	48.5
79	Honduras	48.1	48.7	48.4
80	Gambia	49.3	47.4	48.3
81	El Salvador	48.7	48.0	48.3
82	Qatar	48.0	48.3	48.2
83	Egypt	47.2	48.9	48.1
84	Antigua & Barbuda	47.7	48.4	48.0
85	Barbados	47.8	48.0	47.9
86	Australia	47.4	48.1	47.8
87	New Caledonia	47.4	48.0	47.7
88	Guatemala	47.4	47.2	47.3
89	Mauritius	47.1	47.5	47.3
90	Argentina	46.5	47.1	46.8
91	Bhutan	45.7	47.7	46.7
92	Cyprus	46.3	46.9	46.6
93	Zimbabwe	46.4	46.8	46.6
94	Oman	46.6	46.4	46.5
95	Portugal	46.0	46.9	46.5
96	United Arab Emirates	45.6	46.0	45.8
97	New Zealand	45.0	45.8	45.4
98	Eswatini	45.0	45.6	45.3
99	United States	44.6	45.2	44.9
100	Iraq	43.9	45.9	44.9
101	Togo	43.5	46.1	44.8
102	Montenegro	44.4	45.1	44.7
103	Luxembourg	43.8	44.5	44.2
104	Solomon Islands	43.7	44.3	44.0
105	Burkina Faso	43.6	44.3	44.0
106	Malta	43.5	44.4	43.9
107	Yemen	44.5	43.1	43.8
108	Bulgaria	43.5	44.1	43.8
109	Canada	43.5	44.0	43.7
110	Chile	43.3	44.1	43.7
111	Spain	42.9	43.8	43.4
112	France	43.0	43.5	43.2
113	Botswana	43.4	43.0	43.2
114	Saudi Arabia	43.2	43.1	43.1
115	South Africa	43.0	43.2	43.1
116	Italy	42.1	44.1	43.1
117	South Sudan	42.4	43.7	43.1
118	Netherlands	42.6	43.2	42.9
119	Kuwait	42.7	42.9	42.8
120	United Kingdom	42.2	43.0	42.6
121	Namibia	41.8	43.1	42.4
122	Serbia	42.1	42.8	42.4
123	Israel	42.3	42.4	42.3
124	Croatia	42.0	42.4	42.2
125	Mauritania	42.1	42.1	42.1
126	Iran	41.2	42.8	42.0
127	Zambia	40.6	43.3	42.0
128	Estonia	41.9	42.0	41.9
129	Switzerland	41.1	42.7	41.9
130	Sweden	41.3	42.0	41.7
131	Jordan	41.6	41.2	41.4
132	Romania	40.9	41.8	41.3
133	Ethiopia	39.9	42.5	41.2
134	Chad	41.8	40.6	41.2
135	Pakistan	40.8	41.3	41.1
136	Greece	40.2	41.8	41.0
137	Slovenia	40.6	41.2	40.9
138	Bosnia	40.4	41.2	40.8
139	Ireland	40.4	40.8	40.6
140	Lesotho	39.1	42.1	40.6
141	Austria	39.9	40.7	40.3
142	Belgium	39.9	40.6	40.2
143	Czechia	39.8	40.6	40.2
144	Russia	39.4	40.7	40.1
145	Georgia	39.6	40.5	40.0
146	Iceland	39.7	40.2	39.9
147	Niger	38.9	40.9	39.9
148	Germany	39.3	40.2	39.7
149	Djibouti	39.6	39.7	39.7
150	Norway	39.3	40.1	39.7
151	Slovakia	39.5	39.8	39.6
152	Finland	39.3	39.9	39.6
153	Ukraine	38.6	40.6	39.6
154	Lithuania	39.2	39.8	39.5
155	North Macedonia	38.3	40.5	39.4
156	Lebanon	38.7	39.8	39.2
157	Moldova	38.4	39.8	39.1
158	Afghanistan	38.8	39.1	39.0
159	Turkey	38.4	39.5	38.9
160	Sudan	39.2	38.3	38.7
161	Latvia	38.3	38.8	38.5
162	Denmark	37.9	38.7	38.3
163	Hungary	37.8	38.3	38.1
164	Armenia	37.7	38.3	38.0
165	Albania	36.7	39.2	37.9
166	Syria	36.5	38.0	37.3
167	Kazakhstan	36.8	37.3	37.1
168	Belarus	36.3	37.3	36.8
169	Libya	37.4	36.1	36.8
170	Algeria	36.2	36.9	36.5
171	Morocco	36.8	36.2	36.5
172	Tunisia	35.2	35.6	35.4
173	Kyrgyzstan	35.0	35.7	35.3
174	Poland	34.7	35.3	35.0
175	Azerbaijan	34.5	33.6	34.0
176	Tajikistan	32.7	33.5	33.1
177	Turkmenistan	32.3	33.3	32.8
178	Uzbekistan	30.8	31.7	31.3
179	Mongolia	30.3	31.7	31.0