Per capita availability of egg in India during 1950-51 to 2011-12

The per capita availability of egg was 5 eggs per annum during the period 1950-56. There has been steady increase in per capita availability of egg since 1979-80 to 1999-2000 with marginal fluctuations in the intermittent period. There has been sudden jump in the per capita availability of egg in the year 2000-01 which registered 36 eggs per annum from 30 eggs per annum in the year 1999-2000.

Thereafter from 2000-01 to 2003-04, there is a marginal increase in the per capita availability of egg and further there is a substantially increasing trend has been observed in the per capita availability of egg from 2004-205 to 2011-12. As a result, the per capita reached 55 eggs per annum in the year 2011-12 from 53 eggs per annum in the year 2010-11.