Plant-based diet and its effect on coronary artery disease: A narrative review

Table 1 Depicting the market and consumer trends across the world (Adapted from Alcorta et al[59])

Country	Data
Germany	Vegetarians increased from 1% in 2005 to 7% in 2018
Italy	The meat-free population has increased by 94.4% from 2011 to 2016
Spain	Flexitarians (vegetarians who occasionally eat food from animals) increased by 25% between 2017-2019
United Kingdom	Twenty-one percent of the population consider themselves flexitarian and 1 in 8 declared being vegetarian or vegan
United States	In United States, vegans increased by 500%, from nearly four million in 2014 to 19.6 million in 2017. A national United States survey published in 2018 found that two-thirds of participants had reduced meat consumption between 2015-2018