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 152nd out of 163 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.
All food groups (excluding beverages) — Potassium supply — Value in Lesotho, year by year
| Year | mg/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,641 mg/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 2,664 mg/cap/d | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 2,636 mg/cap/d | -1.1% |
| 2013 | 2,438 mg/cap/d | -7.5% |
| 2014 | 2,424 mg/cap/d | -0.6% |
| 2015 | 2,302 mg/cap/d | -5.0% |
| 2016 | 2,342 mg/cap/d | +1.7% |
| 2017 | 2,592 mg/cap/d | +10.7% |
| 2018 | 2,377 mg/cap/d | -8.3% |
| 2019 | 2,253 mg/cap/d | -5.2% |
| 2020 | 2,143 mg/cap/d | -4.9% |
| 2021 | 2,222 mg/cap/d | +3.7% |
| 2022 | 2,180 mg/cap/d | -1.9% |
| 2023 | 2,165 mg/cap/d | -0.7% |
Lesotho compared with similar countries
- Lesotho's 2,165 mg/cap/d is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 3,104 mg/cap/d, 70% of the median. (38 countries reporting)
- Lesotho's 2,165 mg/cap/d is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 2,971 mg/cap/d, 73% of the median. (33 countries reporting)
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, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.38 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0649 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 70.63 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.6715 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5533 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 6.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 6.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (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 152nd out of 163 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.