Onion consumption per capita rose 34.8% to 28.5 kg in South Korea in 2021, according to Faostat.
Historically, onion consumption per capita in South Korea reached an all time high of 28.6 kg in 2011 and an all time low of 0.490 kg in 1963. When compared to South Korea's main peers, onion consumption per capita in China amounted to 14.6 kg, 3.21 kg in Dem. People's Republic of Korea, 11.4 kg in Japan and 5.08 kg in Vietnam in 2021.
South Korea has been ranked 9th within the group of 156 countries we follow in terms of onion consumption per capita, 4 places below the position seen 10 years ago.
| Onion Consumption Per Capita | Unit | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
| Cambodia | kg | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.030 | ... | |||
| China | kg | 14.3 | 14.6 | 14.6 | 14.8 | 14.1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Dem. People's Republic of Korea | kg | 3.16 | 3.16 | 3.21 | 3.27 | 3.28 | ||||||||||||||||
| India | kg | 12.4 | 13.0 | 14.0 | 14.3 | 14.1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Japan | kg | 11.4 | 11.0 | 11.1 | 10.7 | 11.9 | ||||||||||||||||
| Laos | kg | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.310 | 0.020 | 0.030 | 0.140 | ... | ... | ... | ||
| Russia | kg | 15.8 | 11.5 | 14.0 | 12.1 | 12.1 | ||||||||||||||||
| South Korea | kg | 22.5 | 23.9 | 23.1 | 28.0 | 27.8 | ||||||||||||||||
| Thailand | kg | 0.980 | 0.690 | 0.790 | 1.56 | 1.97 | ||||||||||||||||
| USA | kg | 10.2 | 11.2 | 11.1 | 9.69 | 10.2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Vietnam | kg | 3.72 | 3.86 | 4.00 | 4.20 | 3.77 |
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