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Per capita availability of corn products grew from 1972 to 2022

Bar chart showing U.S. per capita grain availability for 1972, 1982, 1992, 2002, 2012, and 2022.

In 2022, 35.5 pounds per person of corn products (flour and meal, hominy and grits, and food starch) were available for consumption in the United States, increasing steadily over the last five decades, according to ERS’s food availability data. Wheat flour availability was 132.9 pounds per person in 2022—higher than availability levels in the 1970s and 1980s but below its peak of 146.8 pounds in 1997.

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