All food groups (excluding beverages) — Potassium supply — Value in Lesotho
Lesotho: All food groups (excluding beverages) — Potassium supply — Value was 2,165 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
All food groups (excluding beverages) — Potassium supply — Value in Lesotho, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in mg/cap/d.
Analysis
Lesotho recorded 2,165 mg/cap/d for all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value in 2023.
That represents a change of down 0.7% on the previous year and down 11.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value in Lesotho peaked at 2,664 mg/cap/d in 2011 and was at its lowest, 2,143 mg/cap/d, in 2020.
That places Lesotho 165th out of 177 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 2,467 mg/cap/d | 2,253 mg/cap/d | 2,664 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,178 mg/cap/d | 2,143 mg/cap/d | 2,222 mg/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Lesotho
More agriculture & rural data for Lesotho
- Agriculture share gdp 6.49 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.49 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 55.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 1.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 166.92 million current US$ (2025)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 35,490 An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value in Lesotho?
- All food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value in Lesotho was 2,165 mg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value recorded in Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 2,664 mg/cap/d in 2011.
- What is the lowest all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,143 mg/cap/d in 2020.
- How does Lesotho rank for all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value?
- Lesotho ranks 165th out of 177 countries with data for 2023.
- Is all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is down 11.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Lesotho data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of All food groups (excluding beverages) — Potassium supply — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The dataset presents average daily per capita macro and micro nutrient availability by country and by FAO/WHO GIFT food groups (that are different from those used for the Food Balance Sheets), expressed in grams/milligrams/micrograms/kcal per capita per day. The population numbers used to calculate these statistics can be found in the Supply Utilization Accounts (SUA) dataset of FAOSTAT, as Total Population. Food availability quantities are derived from the SUA dataset. SUAs present a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply and utilization during a specified reference period. The SUA shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per capita supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it.