Data
Dataset about the consumption of instant noodles across countries. Is your country one of the top 10 of instant noodles consumption?
Introduction
Instant noodles have become more common for daily consumption, especially because of their cheap price and efficiency. It can be consumed for various age ranges, from youngsters to adults. I gathered my data from World Instant Noodles Association. My dataset is the comparison of instant noodle consumptions across countries. I compared the top 10 countries for the consumption of instant noodles every 2 years; 2016, 2018, and 2020. I use million servings for the unit and from here I can see and conclude my data on the decrease and increase each year.
Data Visualisation
For the data visualisation I use line graphs. I decided to make 1 line graph consisting of all of the data and then 3 other line graphs each representing a year. The reason I use line graphs is because I have an idea to transform it to look like noodles where the x-axis and y-axis can be chopsticks and the lines can be the noodles. Also since my data is quite a lot and consists of a lot of numbers, I think line graphs are the best way to display all the data.
Findings
From my dataset, we can see that China is the top 1 country that consumes the most instant noodles per year and it keeps increasing every year. The gap from number 1 which is China and number 2 which is Indonesia is quite big, with Indonesia reaching to ⅓ the amount of China. Almost all countries (except Indonesia) show a rise in the consumption of instant noodles every 2 years.
Those 2 countries are the one that are dominating the chart and other countries have a pretty significant gap. After Indonesia, there's Vietnam, followed by India, Japan, USA, Phillipines, Korea, Thailand and lastly Brazil on the 10th place with the average of 2,300 per million servings each year.
Insights
Based on the dataset, China is the country that consumes the most instant noodles per year. This makes sense because they have the biggest population in the world and consuming noodles has become a tradition in the country. Out of 10 countries, 9 of them show an increase in noodle consumption every 2 years. This is because of the efficiency and cheap price that instant noodles provide, the growth of our world’s population and people are getting more busy with work and life.
Since 2020 is the year where the covid-19 pandemic started, it also affect the demand of instant noodles as the number of servings increased significantly. People started to find instant food for daily consumption because of its cheap price and efficiency. Instant noodles are one of them, and it's good too aside from its negative impact towards our health. With the increase in demand, automatically companies are producing more instant noodles, meaning equal to the rise in consumption.
Conclusion
The demand for instant noodles will keep increasing every year, considering the rapid growth of the world’s population thus resulting in the rise of instant noodles consumption and more people demanding for efficient and cheap food. I think China will keep dominating the consumption of instant noodles because they have the largest population and eating noodles has become their tradition. Also with the pandemic going on, I think the demand and consumption will increase in a significant amount across the world.
References
- Koki Ando, World Instant Noodles Association, 1997.
