The Relationship among Population Number, Food Domestic Consumption and Food Consumer Expenditure for Most Populous Countries

AbstractThe paper presents an analysis of the relationship between population number and food domestic consumption, on the one hand, and between food domestic consumption and the weight of different foods in the food and non-alcoholic beverages category as well as in disposable income, on the other hand, for the top twenty of the most populous countries in the world. The analyzed foods were meat, milk and cheese and the statistical method used was the Bravais-Pearson correlation coefficient. The obtained results validate the connections between cultural models and consumption patterns. Furthermore, several hypotheses concerning the impact of increasing the meat, milk and cheese domestic consumption on specific food world consumption for the top four countries with the highest population number were also put forth. These scenarios might be useful as a starting point in designing the strategies meant to solve the problems which occur especially when food consumption increases