Consumption of Pork

2011-1-27 | Lifestyle |

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Amount of consumption of pork based on the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication's household expenditure survey. The household expenditure survey was conducted by selecting 9,000 households in Japan, from which one-member households were excluded, and the amount of consumption per household with two or more members was examined. With respect to the amount of expenditure by prefecture, the amount of expenditure was extracted for only prefectural capitals, based on which the trend of consumption for each prefecture is calculated. Likewise, in this website, the data for each prefecture is based on the data for each prefectural capital. The data is calculated based on the average for 2006, 2007 and 2008, with units in gram.

The national average amount of consumption of pork per household is 17,779 grams which, based on calculation, is 1,480 grams per month. This is the greatest among chicken, beef and pork. The amount of consumption of pork is greatest in Akita, with 22,117 grams. Aomori, Niigata and Hokkaido follow.

The distribution map shows that the amount of consumption is greater in eastern Japan and smaller in western Japan. The correlative ranking shows that it is negatively correlated with the amount of consumption of beef, indicating that pork is popular in eastern Japan and beef in western Japan. This can be seen in that in eastern Japan, pork is often used in "niku-jaga (Japanese home-cooked meal - meat and potatoes)" while beef is often used in western Japan.

CONSUMPTION OF PORK

Source　Household Expenditure Survey (2016)

Rank	Prefectures	Consumption of Pork	Standard Score
Sort	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc
1	Hokkaido	23,171g	71.80
2	Aomori	23,060g	71.25
3	Niigata	22,613g	69.02
4	Shizuoka	22,271g	67.31
5	Kanagawa	22,210g	67.00
6	Saitama	21,495g	63.43
7	Fukushima	21,238g	62.15
8	Akita	21,139g	61.65
9	Miyagi	20,947g	60.70
10	Iwate	20,523g	58.58
11	Yamanashi	20,424g	58.08
12	Yamagata	20,020g	56.07
13	Chiba	19,881g	55.37
14	Nagano	19,339g	52.67
15	Tokyo	19,335g	52.65
16	Okayama	19,268g	52.31
17	Toyama	19,260g	52.27
18	Tochigi	19,160g	51.77
19	Nara	19,108g	51.51
20	Okinawa	19,105g	51.50
21	Aichi	18,874g	50.34
22	Hiroshima	18,864g	50.29
23	Wakayama	18,771g	49.83
24	Ibaraki	18,768g	49.81
25	Shimane	18,459g	48.27
26	Kagoshima	18,448g	48.22
27	Tottori	18,192g	46.94
28	Osaka	18,155g	46.75
29	Ishikawa	18,053g	46.24
30	Kumamoto	18,051g	46.23
31	Fukuoka	17,819g	45.07
32	Gifu	17,738g	44.67
33	Ehime	17,483g	43.40
34	Shiga	17,461g	43.29
35	Saga	17,390g	42.93
36	Miyazaki	17,264g	42.30
37	Hyogo	17,154g	41.75
38	Yamaguchi	17,081g	41.39
38	Nagasaki	17,081g	41.39
40	Kyoto	17,044g	41.20
41	Gunma	16,849g	40.23
42	Oita	16,619g	39.08
43	Mie	16,314g	37.56
44	Kagawa	15,953g	35.75
45	Tokushima	15,703g	34.51
46	Fukui	15,405g	33.02
47	Kochi	15,294g	32.46
	Japan	19,564g