The United States is the leading consumer of corn worldwide. In 2022/2023, the U.S. consumed about 12 billion bushels of corn. China, the runner up, consumed about 11.69 billion bushels of corn in that year.
Though it is a popular and widely available vegetable in the United States, most of the corn grown in the United States is processed into ethanol, used as animal feed, or used to manufacture high fructose corn syrup. Of the 20 billion metric bushels of corn utilized in the United States in 2020/2021, about five billion metric bushels went to the production of ethanol and other by-products. In 2021, the average American consumed 4.3 pounds of fresh sweet corn, a decrease from about 9.2 pounds of sweet corn in 2010.
Consumption of corn worldwide in 2022/2023, by country (in million bushels)*
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