Food availability, 2025
Released: 2026-05-28
In 2025, Canadian production of fresh vegetables, poultry meat, eggs and wheat flour rose to record levels. For poultry meat and eggs, this increase in production translated into record availability for both commodities.
The food availability series includes data on the annual supply and disposition of food in Canada, as well as per capita estimates of the amounts of food available to Canadians.
Fresh fruit availability up for second consecutive year
The availability of fresh fruit (including citrus) increased 3.7% year over year to 77.9 kilograms per person in 2025. Fresh fruit production edged up 1.8% and imports rose 4.7% from the previous year. The increase in imports was driven by bananas, dates, mandarins and apples, particularly apples destined for processing.
Availability of fresh vegetables continues downward trend
In 2025, the availability of fresh vegetables (excluding potatoes) was 61.8 kilograms per person (-3.3% from 2024), the seventh consecutive year-over-year decline. Despite an increase in fresh vegetable production (+6.4%), domestic disappearance declined as a result of an increase in exports (+5.6%) and a decrease in imports (-4.1%). Tomatoes accounted for over 60% of the increase in total vegetable production and represented most of the increase in vegetables destined for manufacturing.
Chart 1
Availability of fresh fruit and vegetables
Poultry and beef availability buoyed by higher imports
The availability of total poultry increased 3.9% to 26.1 kilograms (boneless weight) per person in 2025 compared with 2024. Total poultry production increased (+0.7%) for the fifth consecutive year in 2025, while poultry imports increased 22.2% from 2024.
In 2025, total red meat availability increased 2.5% year over year to 30.7 kilograms (boneless weight) per person. Beef availability increased 3.2% to 14.2 kilograms (boneless weight) per person, primarily due to a 21.7% year-over-year increase in imports. Meanwhile, pork availability was relatively stable (-0.1%), at 14.1 kilograms (boneless weight) per person.
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Availability of selected meat in boneless weights
Eggs reach highest per capita availability on record
The availability of eggs increased 4.8% year over year to 22.5 dozen per person in 2025, as Canadian egg production nearly reached 1 billion dozen.
Availability of milk and cheese decline, while cream edges upward
Total milk availability decreased 0.6% to 55.5 litres per person in 2025 compared with a year earlier. The availability of skim milk (-5.3%) and 1% milk (-5.4%) both declined, while the availability of standard milk (also known as homogenized) rose 4.3%.
The availability of total cheese declined 3.3% year over year to 13.1 kilograms per person in 2025. This decline was driven by a 3.7% drop in the production of specialty cheese.
In 2025, total cream availability (+0.2%) ticked upward from a year earlier, despite decreases in production of table cream and cereal cream. These declines were offset by increases in production of whipping cream and sour cream.
Record production of wheat flour yields increase in availability
From 2024 to 2025, the availability of wheat flour increased 6.0% to 60.0 kilograms per person. Canadian production of wheat flour reached a record high of 2.7 million metric tonnes in 2025.
Alcohol availability continues to trend downward across most categories
In 2024/2025, the availability of beer (-4.7%), wine (-4.2%) and spirits (-5.4%) all declined compared with 2023/2024, while availability of ciders, coolers and other refreshment beverages increased 1.3% from the previous year.
Note to readers
Data on food availability per person for selected products and on the supply and disposition of these products are now available for 2025.
Food availability is a measure of the amount of food that is physically present in a country for consumption, not demand or the amount of food that is consumed.
Export data for pork and offal are estimated for years 2023 to 2025 while trade data are under investigation.
Food availability estimates for green and wax canned beans, baked and canned beans, and breakfast food were revised back to 2008 following the reclassification of select products in domestic retail sales data.
Shellfish production estimates were revised back to 2006 to more accurately account for edible weight by species.
Refined sugar production and availability estimates were revised back to 2014 to align with data produced by the Canadian Sugar Institute.
The Census of Agriculture is underway in May!
Every five years, farm operators across Canada complete the Census of Agriculture.
Insights from the 2026 Census will provide crucial information about the agriculture sector in Canada to help make business decisions.
For more information on agriculture and food, visit the Agriculture and food statistics portal.
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