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Figure 1.3. Regional and world papaya production, 1990-2010 (not shown: Europe and Oceania, with < 1% of

world total) (source: FAO, 2011).

collected from individual consumers, and thus provide an
independent basis for examining food consumption trends.
Per capita estimates are calculated by dividing the total an-
nual availability for a commodity by the US population for
that year. ERS manages and disseminates the food avail-
ability data within a data system posted on the ERS web-

site ( http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/FoodConsumption/ ). In
recent years, ERS began adjusting per capita fruit con-
sumption estimates on the basis of postharvest loss esti-
mates, which averaged 11.4% at the retail level for fresh
fruit in 2006 (Buzby et al., 2009). The US per capita fruit
consumption estimates (per year) in 2008 were 122.6 lbs

Figure 1.4. Regional and world mango, mangosteen, and guava production, 1990-2010 (not shown: Europe
and Oceania, with < 1% of world total) (source: FAO, 2011).