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Who Purchased Pork Most? (Purchased Pork Meat by City in Japan)

Pork is common in Japan. The average yearly purchased volume per capita is 19.075 kg. It is 2.8 times of beef and 1.3 times of chicken. 

The table below presents the yearly purchased volume of pork by city in Japan. Unit is gram. It is the average figure from 2011 to 2013. The survey was conducted by Japanese government and target people were families which consist of more than two members. So this data does not include single households. 

City Purchased volume (g)
Average 19,075
Sapporo  23,882
Niigata  23,110
Aomori  22,657
Akita  22,201
Shizuoka  21,715
Yokohama  21,524
Saitama  21,199
Morioka  20,940
Kawasaki  20,927
Hamamatsu  20,854
Kofu  20,771
Fukushima  20,090
Chiba  19,647
Yamagata  19,527
Sendai  19,269
Nagano  19,181
Fukuoka  18,813
Tokyo  18,732
Naha  18,680
Nara  18,646
Kagoshima  18,447
Wakayama  18,126
Kanazawa  18,106
Mito  18,067
Nagoya  17,988
Utsunomiya  17,977
Sakai 17,802
Saga  17,725
Osaka  17,712
Toyama  17,711
Okayama  17,648
Matsue  17,569
Miyazaki  17,454
Hiroshima  17,325
Tottori  17,234
Matsuyama  17,178
Gifu  17,105
Kyoto  17,103
Maebashi  16,954
Otsu  16,878
Oita  16,556
Kumamoto  16,488
Nagasaki  16,308
Kobe  16,182
Fukui  16,036
Tsu  15,884
Kitakyushu  15,787
Yamaguchi  15,759
Takamatsu  15,598
Kochi  15,432
Tokushima 15,129

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People in the northern Japan buy pork much. It is the opposite trend of beef consumption. (People in the western Japan buy beef much.)

Source is Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

www.stat.go.jp/data/kakei/zuhyou/rank03.xls

www.stat.go.jp/data/kakei/5.htm

 

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