All food groups — Magnesium supply — Value in Lesotho
Lesotho: All food groups — Magnesium supply — Value was 338 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
All food groups — Magnesium supply — Value in Lesotho, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in mg/cap/d.
Analysis
Lesotho recorded 338 mg/cap/d for all food groups — magnesium supply — value in 2023.
The figure is down 0.3% on the previous year and down 23.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, all food groups — magnesium supply — value in Lesotho peaked at 487 mg/cap/d in 2010 and was at its lowest, 335 mg/cap/d, in 2020.
That places Lesotho 147th 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 — Magnesium supply — Value in Lesotho, year by year
| Year | mg/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 487 mg/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 482 mg/cap/d | -1.0% |
| 2012 | 475 mg/cap/d | -1.5% |
| 2013 | 439 mg/cap/d | -7.6% |
| 2014 | 398 mg/cap/d | -9.3% |
| 2015 | 379 mg/cap/d | -4.8% |
| 2016 | 391 mg/cap/d | +3.2% |
| 2017 | 424 mg/cap/d | +8.4% |
| 2018 | 393 mg/cap/d | -7.3% |
| 2019 | 364 mg/cap/d | -7.4% |
| 2020 | 335 mg/cap/d | -8.0% |
| 2021 | 344 mg/cap/d | +2.7% |
| 2022 | 339 mg/cap/d | -1.5% |
| 2023 | 338 mg/cap/d | -0.3% |
Lesotho compared with similar countries
- Lesotho's 338 mg/cap/d is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 403.5 mg/cap/d, 84% of the median. (38 countries reporting)
- Lesotho's 338 mg/cap/d is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 415 mg/cap/d, 81% of the median. (33 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 423.2 mg/cap/d | 364 mg/cap/d | 487 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 339 mg/cap/d | 335 mg/cap/d | 344 mg/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Lesotho
- 144 Solomon Islands 348 mg/cap/d compare
- 145 Sri Lanka 346 mg/cap/d compare
- 146 Guinea-Bissau 340 mg/cap/d compare
- 148 Hungary 336 mg/cap/d compare
- 148 Saint Lucia 336 mg/cap/d compare
- 150 Bangladesh 335 mg/cap/d compare
- 150 Cambodia 335 mg/cap/d compare
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 — magnesium supply — value in Lesotho?
- All food groups — magnesium supply — value in Lesotho was 338 mg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest all food groups — magnesium supply — value recorded in Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 487 mg/cap/d in 2010.
- What is the lowest all food groups — magnesium supply — value recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 335 mg/cap/d in 2020.
- How does Lesotho rank for all food groups — magnesium supply — value?
- Lesotho ranks 147th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is all food groups — magnesium supply — value rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is down 23.0%. 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 — Magnesium 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.