Food in the Netherlands

Country Food Similarity Index
2020 (Version 3)

Similarity compared to the Netherlands

• Method 1: Unweighted
• Method 2: Weighted

Rank	Country	Unweighted Data	Food Group Based	Average
1	United Kingdom	83.9	83.9	83.9
2	Belgium	83.4	82.6	83.0
3	Switzerland	82.7	82.7	82.7
4	Germany	81.8	82.1	82.0
5	Ireland	81.3	82.5	81.9
6	Sweden	81.5	81.7	81.6
7	Luxembourg	81.1	81.1	81.1
8	France	80.9	81.3	81.1
9	Austria	80.7	80.8	80.8
10	Denmark	80.5	80.9	80.7
11	Norway	80.0	79.7	79.9
12	Canada	79.7	79.3	79.5
13	Croatia	79.2	79.0	79.1
14	United States	79.3	78.8	79.0
15	Slovakia	78.5	78.4	78.5
16	Estonia	78.1	78.8	78.4
17	Portugal	78.0	78.1	78.1
18	Slovenia	77.8	77.6	77.7
19	Spain	77.3	77.8	77.5
20	Lithuania	76.4	78.5	77.4
21	Finland	77.1	77.6	77.4
22	Czechia	76.9	77.2	77.1
23	Chile	76.4	77.2	76.8
24	New Zealand	76.4	77.1	76.7
25	Australia	76.8	76.6	76.7
26	Latvia	75.7	77.1	76.4
27	Italy	75.8	76.0	75.9
28	Malta	75.8	76.0	75.9
29	Iceland	75.0	76.1	75.5
30	Poland	74.3	74.8	74.6
31	Russia	74.2	75.0	74.6
32	Romania	73.5	74.3	73.9
33	Greece	73.2	74.1	73.6
34	Ukraine	72.8	74.0	73.4
35	Hungary	73.3	73.0	73.1
36	Montenegro	72.6	73.5	73.1
37	Barbados	73.1	72.8	73.0
38	Bulgaria	71.8	72.6	72.2
39	Bosnia	71.1	72.3	71.7
40	Belarus	71.0	72.4	71.7
41	Cyprus	71.3	71.5	71.4
42	Uruguay	71.1	71.1	71.1
43	Argentina	70.6	70.4	70.5
44	Lebanon	69.9	70.9	70.4
45	Kuwait	70.0	70.5	70.2
46	Moldova	69.7	70.7	70.2
47	North Macedonia	68.0	71.8	69.9
48	Israel	69.5	69.2	69.4
49	Serbia	68.8	69.5	69.2
50	Japan	68.4	69.1	68.7
51	Trinidad & Tobago	68.7	68.2	68.4
52	Qatar	68.2	68.4	68.3
53	Bahrain	68.9	67.8	68.3
54	Seychelles	68.3	68.2	68.3
55	Georgia	67.7	68.6	68.1
56	Jordan	67.6	68.0	67.8
57	Mauritius	67.8	67.7	67.7
58	Albania	66.4	69.0	67.7
59	Turkey	67.0	68.2	67.6
60	Grenada	67.3	67.8	67.5
61	Bahamas	66.3	67.1	66.7
62	Ecuador	66.1	66.7	66.4
63	Taiwan	65.9	66.1	66.0
64	New Caledonia	65.2	66.8	66.0
65	United Arab Emirates	66.3	65.6	66.0
66	Peru	65.7	65.6	65.7
67	Armenia	64.7	66.3	65.5
68	Mexico	65.2	65.5	65.3
69	Kazakhstan	65.0	65.6	65.3
70	Morocco	65.1	65.1	65.1
71	Costa Rica	64.4	65.7	65.0
72	Azerbaijan	64.2	64.9	64.6
73	Iran	63.7	65.2	64.5
74	Oman	64.3	64.1	64.2
75	Colombia	64.1	64.0	64.0
76	China	64.0	63.9	64.0
77	Bolivia	64.1	63.7	63.9
78	Algeria	62.4	65.2	63.8
79	Botswana	63.5	63.4	63.4
80	Tunisia	63.0	63.8	63.4
81	South Africa	63.5	62.9	63.2
82	South Korea	62.6	63.8	63.2
83	Belize	62.6	63.7	63.1
84	Namibia	62.7	63.4	63.0
85	Lesotho	63.3	62.7	63.0
86	Maldives	62.6	63.2	62.9
87	Antigua & Barbuda	62.8	62.7	62.8
88	Syria	61.8	63.7	62.7
89	Malaysia	62.4	62.6	62.5
90	Saudi Arabia	62.4	62.3	62.3
91	Iraq	61.3	63.0	62.1
92	French Polynesia	60.9	62.7	61.8
93	Egypt	61.1	61.6	61.4
94	Brazil	61.2	61.3	61.2
95	Cape Verde	60.8	61.3	61.0
96	St. Lucia	60.3	60.8	60.6
97	Kyrgyzstan	60.2	60.7	60.5
98	Venezuela	60.0	60.8	60.4
99	El Salvador	59.6	60.7	60.1
100	Libya	59.8	60.2	60.0
101	Uzbekistan	59.0	60.8	59.9
102	Mongolia	59.6	60.1	59.8
103	Guatemala	58.8	59.8	59.3
104	Panama	58.3	59.1	58.7
105	St. Vincent	58.8	58.5	58.7
106	Jamaica	57.9	58.1	58.0
107	Thailand	57.8	58.1	57.9
108	Suriname	57.2	57.7	57.4
109	Eswatini	56.9	57.5	57.2
110	Honduras	56.5	56.9	56.7
111	Pakistan	56.5	55.8	56.2
112	Fiji	56.2	56.0	56.1
113	North Korea	55.4	56.5	56.0
114	Yemen	55.9	55.7	55.8
115	Dominican Republic	53.7	57.3	55.5
116	Djibouti	54.7	55.3	55.0
117	Paraguay	54.3	54.4	54.4
118	India	52.9	55.4	54.2
119	Nicaragua	53.5	54.6	54.1
120	Bangladesh	53.8	54.0	53.9
121	Philippines	52.8	54.1	53.4
122	Cuba	52.7	54.1	53.4
123	Mauritania	52.6	54.2	53.4
124	Afghanistan	52.8	53.2	53.0
125	Nepal	53.7	52.3	53.0
126	Guyana	51.0	54.3	52.6
127	Sri Lanka	51.8	52.8	52.3
128	Bhutan	51.3	53.1	52.2
129	Tajikistan	51.6	52.4	52.0
130	Indonesia	52.1	51.9	52.0
131	Turkmenistan	49.7	50.1	49.9
132	Kenya	49.3	50.1	49.7
133	Vietnam	48.9	49.8	49.3
134	Sao Tome	47.8	48.9	48.3
135	Haiti	47.7	48.6	48.1
136	Senegal	47.1	48.1	47.6
137	Rep. of Congo	47.7	47.5	47.6
138	Madagascar	46.0	48.6	47.3
139	Zimbabwe	46.3	45.3	45.8
140	Mozambique	44.7	46.2	45.5
141	Gabon	44.7	45.3	45.0
142	Samoa	43.5	45.3	44.4
143	Sudan	43.7	44.8	44.2
144	East Timor	43.1	45.2	44.2
145	Angola	42.6	43.4	43.0
146	Tanzania	41.9	44.0	42.9
147	Laos	42.6	43.2	42.9
148	Rwanda	42.3	43.5	42.9
149	Mali	41.5	43.7	42.6
150	Comoros	42.0	43.0	42.5
151	Gambia	42.0	42.1	42.0
152	Myanmar	41.0	43.0	42.0
153	Cameroon	40.7	42.6	41.7
154	Ivory Coast	40.5	42.8	41.6
155	Zambia	39.6	42.9	41.3
156	Vanuatu	40.0	42.4	41.2
157	Malawi	40.5	41.7	41.1
158	Kiribati	39.9	41.7	40.8
159	Guinea-Bissau	39.6	41.9	40.8
160	Ethiopia	41.2	40.2	40.7
161	Liberia	39.2	41.0	40.1
162	Burkina Faso	38.4	41.0	39.7
163	Guinea	38.6	40.7	39.7
164	Cambodia	38.5	40.7	39.6
165	Nigeria	36.7	42.0	39.3
166	Niger	36.5	39.7	38.1
167	Togo	35.8	39.3	37.5
168	Benin	35.9	38.5	37.2
169	Ghana	36.3	37.8	37.0
170	Uganda	36.1	37.9	37.0
171	Burundi	35.1	38.4	36.7
172	Papua New Guinea	35.7	37.2	36.4
173	Sierra Leone	34.7	35.9	35.3
174	Solomon Islands	33.7	36.5	35.1
175	Dem. Rep. of Congo	33.2	36.7	35.0
176	Central African Rep.	34.2	35.2	34.7
177	Micronesia	31.3	33.5	32.4
178	South Sudan	31.7	31.8	31.7
179	Chad	30.2	30.0	30.1