Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 2,496 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Australia and New Zealand, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
In 2025, average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Australia and New Zealand stood at 2,496 kcal/cap/d. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 2,496 kcal/cap/d in 2005 and was at its lowest, 2,487 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places Australia and New Zealand 39th out of 181 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top quarter.
Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2,487 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 2,489 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 2,491 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 2,493 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 2,494 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 2,496 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2006 | 2,496 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 2,495 kcal/cap/d | -0.0% |
| 2008 | 2,495 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 2,494 kcal/cap/d | -0.0% |
| 2010 | 2,494 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 2,493 kcal/cap/d | -0.0% |
| 2012 | 2,491 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2013 | 2,489 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 2,489 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 2,489 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 2,489 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 2,489 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 2,490 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 2,492 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 2,492 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 2,493 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 2,494 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 2,495 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 2,496 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 2,496 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2,493 kcal/cap/d | 2,487 kcal/cap/d | 2,496 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,490 kcal/cap/d | 2,489 kcal/cap/d | 2,494 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,494 kcal/cap/d | 2,492 kcal/cap/d | 2,496 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Australia and New Zealand?
- Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Australia and New Zealand was 2,496 kcal/cap/d in 2025, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 2,496 kcal/cap/d in 2005.
- What is the lowest average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,487 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 39th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Australia and New Zealand data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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The Suite of Food Security Indicators presents the core set of food security indicators. Following the recommendation of experts gathered in the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Round Table on hunger measurement, hosted at FAO headquarters in September 2011, an initial set of indicators aiming to capture various aspects of food insecurity is presented here. The choice of the indicators has been informed by expert judgement and the availability of data with sufficient coverage to enable comparisons across regions and over time. Many of these indicators are produced and published elsewhere by FAO and other international organizations. They are reported here in a single database with the aim of building a wide food security information system. More indicators will be added to this set as more data will become available. Indicators are classified along the four dimensions of food security -- availability, access, utilization and stability.