Telecoupled impacts of livestock trade on non-communicable diseases

Table 3 Agents, household food expenditures, and government expenditures on health in our four focal countries (data sources: The FAOSTAT [50], WHO [68], The World Bank [51], and IMAP [69])

	Brazil	China	UK	USA
Farmers, 1000 persons (2011)	10,495	504,523	463	2410
Consumers, 1000 persons (2011)	196,935	1,344,130	63,259	311,583
Livestock consumption, kcal/capita/day (2011)	501	504	568	534
Protein supply of animal origin, g/capital/day (2011)	50	37	58	69
Food and beverage companies, numbers (2010)^a	31	153	48	303
Household food expenditure, % (2008)	24.1%	33.0%	8.5%	5.9%
Household livestock products expenditure, % (2008)	12.7%	13.4%	3.7%	2.4%
Government expenditure on health, % (2012)	7.6%	12.5%	16.1%	19.9%

^a According to IMAP [69], food and beverage companies were classified into the farming, processing, and distribution sectors; companies’ sectors were identified according to Bloomberg’s classification: (https://www.bloomberg.com/research//common/symbollookup/symbollookup.asp)

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