The map and chart illlustrates the percentage of people in countries around the world who are willing to consume insect products, as well as the cost of those food in today’s market. Overall, it is apparent that most countries have less than half of their total population who are happy to do so, except Thailand and a few countries around the America region, who show an opposite result.
Beginning with Asia, the majority of the nations can be seen to have low to moderate levels of interests for insect based products. Out of all conutries, Thailand is the nation with highest figure of willingness, presenting 56%, in contrary to Japan, who reveals the lowest popularity globally in consuming such products, as its figure is 21%.
Moving to the North and South America areas, people in these demographic areas are clearly more keen to consume those products compared to citizens in Asia. Mexico accounts for 71% of insects food acceptance, which is the most figure by far. In contrast, insect foods only appeal to 35% of American, which is less than half of the figure of Mexico. On the other hand, similar to Thailand, Peru has considerably a lot of insects food lover, considering the fact that 58% of Peru citizens are willing to consume those food, which is even more than the figures of Japan and Australia combined.