Food in Nepal

Country Food Similarity Index
2020 (Version 3)

Similarity compared to Nepal

Rank	Country	Unweighted Data	Food Group Based	Average
1	India	70.8	68.6	69.7
2	Bhutan	67.5	67.8	67.7
3	Bangladesh	65.7	66.3	66.0
4	Pakistan	66.8	64.6	65.7
5	Bahrain	62.6	63.2	62.9
6	Malaysia	62.3	63.1	62.7
7	Qatar	61.9	62.2	62.1
8	Ecuador	61.3	62.8	62.0
9	Oman	61.7	62.2	61.9
10	Cape Verde	62.2	61.1	61.6
11	Peru	61.6	61.4	61.5
12	Mauritius	62.0	60.5	61.3
13	Sri Lanka	60.9	60.9	60.9
14	Taiwan	60.8	60.7	60.8
15	Colombia	60.7	60.1	60.4
16	Bolivia	60.3	60.3	60.3
17	Yemen	60.8	59.6	60.2
18	United Arab Emirates	59.9	60.1	60.0
19	Panama	59.9	60.1	60.0
20	Thailand	59.8	59.5	59.6
21	Costa Rica	58.5	60.7	59.6
22	Seychelles	59.5	59.6	59.6
23	Egypt	59.5	59.4	59.4
24	South Korea	59.0	59.4	59.2
25	Bosnia	60.2	58.2	59.2
26	Maldives	59.2	58.5	58.9
27	Israel	59.0	57.9	58.4
28	Mexico	59.6	57.2	58.4
29	Lesotho	58.5	58.3	58.4
30	Philippines	58.1	58.4	58.3
31	China	58.9	57.4	58.1
32	Saudi Arabia	58.1	58.2	58.1
33	Brazil	57.4	58.7	58.1
34	Venezuela	58.6	57.5	58.1
35	Uruguay	57.7	58.4	58.0
36	Japan	58.7	57.3	58.0
37	Kuwait	58.2	57.6	57.9
38	Iran	57.1	58.6	57.8
39	Iraq	58.1	57.2	57.6
40	Trinidad & Tobago	57.5	57.2	57.4
41	Turkey	57.2	57.4	57.3
42	Indonesia	57.2	57.1	57.2
43	Canada	57.2	56.8	57.0
44	Portugal	56.9	57.0	57.0
45	Chile	57.0	57.0	57.0
46	Djibouti	56.6	56.9	56.7
47	Suriname	57.8	55.6	56.7
48	Lebanon	56.9	56.2	56.6
49	Jordan	56.4	56.2	56.3
50	Italy	56.2	56.0	56.1
51	Namibia	56.2	55.9	56.1
52	Romania	55.8	56.3	56.0
53	South Africa	55.4	56.7	56.0
54	Australia	55.7	56.3	56.0
55	Guatemala	56.3	55.6	56.0
56	Barbados	55.4	56.6	56.0
57	Kenya	55.3	56.2	55.8
58	United Kingdom	56.8	54.7	55.8
59	Haiti	56.3	55.0	55.6
60	Ukraine	56.1	54.9	55.5
61	Algeria	55.1	55.5	55.3
62	Moldova	55.2	55.3	55.3
63	Morocco	56.1	54.3	55.2
64	Bulgaria	55.7	54.7	55.2
65	Vietnam	55.0	55.4	55.2
66	Serbia	56.2	54.1	55.1
67	Croatia	55.3	54.9	55.1
68	Argentina	54.8	55.4	55.1
69	Eswatini	55.0	55.0	55.0
70	Afghanistan	55.5	54.5	55.0
71	France	54.6	55.3	54.9
72	Madagascar	55.4	54.4	54.9
73	North Korea	54.3	55.2	54.8
74	Slovenia	54.4	55.0	54.7
75	United States	54.2	55.0	54.6
76	Kyrgyzstan	54.8	54.4	54.6
77	Russia	54.7	54.4	54.5
78	Montenegro	54.6	54.4	54.5
79	Georgia	54.9	54.2	54.5
80	Bahamas	54.4	54.4	54.4
81	New Zealand	54.9	53.6	54.2
82	Spain	55.2	53.1	54.1
83	Germany	54.6	53.5	54.0
84	Albania	54.3	53.7	54.0
85	Netherlands	53.4	54.5	54.0
86	Syria	53.6	54.1	53.8
87	Austria	55.0	52.6	53.8
88	Greece	53.6	53.6	53.6
89	Ireland	53.9	53.3	53.6
90	Antigua & Barbuda	53.9	53.3	53.6
91	Botswana	53.0	54.1	53.5
92	Senegal	54.3	52.7	53.5
93	Armenia	53.8	53.0	53.4
94	Switzerland	53.4	53.5	53.4
95	Czechia	53.3	53.2	53.2
96	El Salvador	53.4	53.1	53.2
97	Cyprus	53.3	53.1	53.2
98	New Caledonia	52.7	53.3	53.0
99	Malta	52.4	53.6	53.0
100	Kazakhstan	52.8	53.2	53.0
101	Guyana	52.3	53.7	53.0
102	Luxembourg	52.9	52.9	52.9
103	Grenada	53.6	52.0	52.8
104	Myanmar	53.4	52.1	52.8
105	East Timor	52.4	53.0	52.7
106	Estonia	53.4	51.9	52.6
107	Nicaragua	52.6	52.6	52.6
108	Sweden	52.7	52.5	52.6
109	Norway	53.4	51.7	52.5
110	Belize	52.6	52.4	52.5
111	Gambia	53.0	52.0	52.5
112	Tanzania	52.3	52.5	52.4
113	Belgium	52.2	52.5	52.3
114	North Macedonia	52.2	52.4	52.3
115	Dominican Republic	52.7	51.7	52.2
116	Paraguay	52.1	52.3	52.2
117	Zimbabwe	52.1	52.0	52.1
118	Mauritania	52.1	51.8	52.0
119	Honduras	52.1	51.5	51.8
120	Azerbaijan	52.2	51.2	51.7
121	Cuba	51.2	52.0	51.6
122	Fiji	51.9	51.0	51.4
123	Slovakia	51.0	51.7	51.4
124	Ethiopia	51.8	50.8	51.3
125	Guinea-Bissau	51.3	51.2	51.3
126	Mali	50.3	52.2	51.3
127	Mongolia	51.5	50.6	51.1
128	Denmark	51.4	50.6	51.0
129	Finland	50.5	51.5	51.0
130	Belarus	50.8	50.6	50.7
131	Hungary	51.2	50.2	50.7
132	Latvia	51.2	50.0	50.6
133	Iceland	51.8	49.0	50.4
134	St. Vincent	50.6	50.2	50.4
135	Lithuania	51.9	48.8	50.3
136	Laos	50.4	50.1	50.2
137	Libya	49.7	50.6	50.1
138	Jamaica	50.4	49.7	50.0
139	Uzbekistan	49.9	49.9	49.9
140	Mozambique	49.5	50.3	49.9
141	Malawi	50.1	49.6	49.8
142	French Polynesia	48.2	49.5	48.9
143	Tunisia	48.7	48.7	48.7
144	St. Lucia	49.3	48.2	48.7
145	Guinea	47.9	48.0	48.0
146	Poland	48.7	46.5	47.6
147	Ivory Coast	47.9	47.3	47.6
148	Turkmenistan	46.7	47.9	47.3
149	Gabon	47.7	46.0	46.9
150	Angola	47.3	46.1	46.7
151	Tajikistan	47.3	46.0	46.6
152	Nigeria	46.4	46.3	46.3
153	Comoros	47.2	44.7	45.9
154	Rep. of Congo	46.7	44.9	45.8
155	Sao Tome	45.4	46.3	45.8
156	Sierra Leone	47.8	43.7	45.8
157	Burkina Faso	47.0	44.3	45.7
158	Rwanda	45.3	46.0	45.6
159	Uganda	45.9	45.3	45.6
160	Sudan	46.3	44.7	45.5
161	Zambia	45.0	45.4	45.2
162	Benin	45.4	44.4	44.9
163	Cambodia	44.9	43.4	44.2
164	Ghana	43.6	44.0	43.8
165	Samoa	44.6	43.0	43.8
166	Togo	44.3	42.1	43.2
167	Liberia	43.5	41.5	42.5
168	Dem. Rep. of Congo	42.2	41.6	41.9
169	Cameroon	42.3	41.5	41.9
170	Kiribati	42.4	40.7	41.5
171	Burundi	40.2	41.0	40.6
172	Vanuatu	42.4	38.5	40.4
173	Niger	40.6	39.7	40.1
174	Chad	40.1	38.1	39.1
175	Papua New Guinea	39.4	36.8	38.1
176	South Sudan	37.3	37.6	37.4
177	Solomon Islands	38.6	34.8	36.7
178	Central African Rep.	35.5	36.2	35.8
179	Micronesia	34.6	33.0	33.8