Food in South Africa - OBJECTIVE LISTS

Country Food Similarity Index
2020 (Version 3)

Similarity compared to South Africa

Rank	Country	Method 1	Method 2	Average
1	Botswana	75.8	76.0	75.9
2	Namibia	76.0	75.7	75.8
3	Ecuador	75.0	75.8	75.4
4	Eswatini	74.3	74.8	74.6
5	Guatemala	73.3	75.3	74.3
6	Barbados	73.7	73.8	73.8
7	Uruguay	73.7	73.7	73.7
8	Argentina	73.3	73.6	73.5
9	Mexico	72.2	73.1	72.7
10	Bolivia	71.7	73.5	72.6
11	El Salvador	70.9	73.8	72.3
12	Honduras	71.4	73.1	72.2
13	Costa Rica	72.0	72.0	72.0
14	Trinidad & Tobago	71.8	71.9	71.8
15	Brazil	71.2	72.4	71.8
16	Australia	71.5	71.8	71.7
17	Colombia	70.6	72.4	71.5
18	Cape Verde	71.0	72.0	71.5
19	United States	70.9	71.5	71.2
20	Israel	69.1	71.4	70.3
21	Venezuela	69.2	71.4	70.3
22	Qatar	69.7	70.8	70.2
23	Bahamas	69.7	69.9	69.8
24	New Zealand	69.6	69.8	69.7
25	Lesotho	68.9	70.3	69.6
26	Chile	69.2	69.9	69.6
27	Mauritius	69.1	70.0	69.5
28	Malta	69.2	69.7	69.4
29	Saudi Arabia	68.9	69.8	69.4
30	Malaysia	69.1	69.2	69.2
31	Belize	68.9	69.1	69.0
32	Canada	68.7	69.0	68.8
33	Panama	68.7	68.8	68.8
34	Moldova	68.3	68.5	68.4
35	Peru	67.3	69.5	68.4
36	Bahrain	68.0	68.4	68.2
37	Grenada	67.8	68.6	68.2
38	Bulgaria	68.0	68.3	68.1
39	Seychelles	68.0	68.2	68.1
40	Georgia	67.6	68.4	68.0
41	Kuwait	67.1	68.9	68.0
42	United Kingdom	67.6	68.3	67.9
43	St. Lucia	67.5	67.9	67.7
44	Portugal	67.6	67.4	67.5
45	Slovenia	67.2	67.7	67.4
46	Bosnia	65.7	69.1	67.4
47	Jordan	66.0	68.2	67.1
48	Ukraine	66.6	67.1	66.8
49	Romania	66.1	67.5	66.8
50	New Caledonia	66.7	66.7	66.7
51	Egypt	65.8	67.5	66.7
52	Nicaragua	66.7	66.6	66.6
53	Russia	66.6	66.6	66.6
54	South Korea	66.7	66.5	66.6
55	France	66.7	66.5	66.6
56	Japan	66.6	66.2	66.4
57	Oman	66.2	66.6	66.4
58	United Arab Emirates	66.0	66.8	66.4
59	Morocco	65.3	67.0	66.1
60	Antigua & Barbuda	65.7	66.5	66.1
61	Taiwan	65.9	66.3	66.1
62	Ireland	65.8	65.7	65.7
63	Cyprus	65.5	65.6	65.5
64	Austria	65.5	65.4	65.4
65	Turkey	62.2	68.7	65.4
66	Paraguay	65.1	65.6	65.4
67	Spain	65.1	65.1	65.1
68	Serbia	64.1	66.0	65.0
69	Croatia	65.0	64.9	64.9
70	Jamaica	64.0	65.6	64.8
71	Cuba	63.7	65.5	64.6
72	Luxembourg	64.3	64.4	64.3
73	Denmark	64.4	64.2	64.3
74	Suriname	64.4	64.2	64.3
75	Kenya	62.8	65.6	64.2
76	French Polynesia	64.3	64.1	64.2
77	Germany	63.9	63.6	63.8
78	Yemen	62.6	64.9	63.7
79	Pakistan	63.0	64.3	63.7
80	Sweden	63.7	63.5	63.6
81	Norway	63.5	63.6	63.5
82	Lebanon	61.2	65.8	63.5
83	Armenia	62.0	65.0	63.5
84	Greece	62.6	64.2	63.4
85	Montenegro	63.1	63.6	63.4
86	Kyrgyzstan	61.8	64.9	63.4
87	Iceland	63.3	63.4	63.3
88	Switzerland	63.0	63.4	63.2
89	Netherlands	63.5	62.9	63.2
90	Djibouti	61.2	65.0	63.1
91	Fiji	62.3	63.0	62.6
92	St. Vincent	62.3	62.8	62.6
93	Kazakhstan	60.8	64.2	62.5
94	North Macedonia	60.6	64.2	62.4
95	Libya	61.3	63.5	62.4
96	Italy	62.3	62.5	62.4
97	Finland	62.3	62.3	62.3
98	Iran	60.4	64.0	62.2
99	Belarus	61.9	62.3	62.1
100	Estonia	61.9	61.7	61.8
101	Albania	58.8	64.6	61.7
102	Latvia	61.7	61.6	61.7
103	Philippines	61.6	61.6	61.6
104	Lithuania	61.7	61.5	61.6
105	Czechia	61.5	61.6	61.6
106	Azerbaijan	59.5	63.3	61.4
107	Slovakia	61.4	61.4	61.4
108	Mozambique	61.7	60.7	61.2
109	Hungary	61.2	60.8	61.0
110	Algeria	58.4	63.5	61.0
111	Belgium	61.0	60.8	60.9
112	China	60.6	61.1	60.9
113	Maldives	61.0	60.6	60.8
114	Zimbabwe	60.5	60.8	60.6
115	Dominican Republic	58.7	62.2	60.5
116	Mauritania	60.4	60.4	60.4
117	Tunisia	58.7	61.8	60.2
118	North Korea	60.4	59.9	60.2
119	Haiti	59.2	61.1	60.1
120	Thailand	60.2	59.3	59.7
121	Syria	58.2	61.0	59.6
122	Bhutan	58.8	60.2	59.5
123	India	58.3	60.6	59.5
124	Iraq	57.7	60.9	59.3
125	Senegal	58.0	60.5	59.2
126	Tajikistan	58.2	59.8	59.0
127	Zambia	57.5	60.0	58.7
128	Indonesia	58.4	58.8	58.6
129	Tanzania	57.3	59.4	58.4
130	Poland	57.9	57.9	57.9
131	Mongolia	57.2	57.5	57.4
132	Guyana	54.7	59.7	57.2
133	Afghanistan	56.0	58.4	57.2
134	East Timor	57.4	56.7	57.1
135	Sri Lanka	55.8	58.2	57.0
136	Turkmenistan	56.3	57.4	56.8
137	Uzbekistan	55.9	57.7	56.8
138	Nepal	56.2	56.9	56.6
139	Rep. of Congo	55.9	55.8	55.8
140	Angola	56.6	55.0	55.8
141	Sao Tome	55.0	56.4	55.7
142	Bangladesh	55.5	55.7	55.6
143	Malawi	53.5	56.5	55.0
144	Samoa	54.5	55.3	54.9
145	Gabon	54.6	54.9	54.7
146	Gambia	55.2	53.8	54.5
147	Burkina Faso	54.2	54.3	54.3
148	Vietnam	54.2	53.9	54.0
149	Madagascar	52.5	55.3	53.9
150	Uganda	53.0	54.6	53.8
151	Cameroon	51.3	54.4	52.9
152	Mali	50.0	55.6	52.8
153	Rwanda	49.9	54.1	52.0
154	Guinea-Bissau	49.8	53.9	51.9
155	Comoros	51.0	52.5	51.8
156	Ethiopia	52.3	51.0	51.7
157	Ivory Coast	49.7	52.8	51.2
158	Myanmar	50.7	50.3	50.5
159	Sudan	49.2	51.4	50.3
160	Guinea	48.2	52.3	50.2
161	Togo	49.3	49.7	49.5
162	Nigeria	47.6	50.7	49.2
163	Liberia	47.5	50.0	48.7
164	Ghana	45.5	50.5	48.0
165	Benin	46.2	49.6	47.9
166	Vanuatu	47.5	48.1	47.8
167	Kiribati	47.1	48.1	47.6
168	Sierra Leone	43.5	47.1	45.3
169	Dem. Rep. of Congo	44.0	45.8	44.9
170	Papua New Guinea	43.4	45.6	44.5
171	Burundi	43.4	43.9	43.7
172	Cambodia	42.4	44.6	43.5
173	Niger	41.0	45.4	43.2
174	Laos	43.0	43.2	43.1
175	Solomon Islands	40.8	44.5	42.6
176	Central African Rep.	42.3	42.6	42.5
177	South Sudan	42.1	41.8	42.0
178	Micronesia	41.6	41.8	41.7
179	Chad	40.8	39.7	40.3