Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Lesotho
Lesotho: Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 2,311 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Lesotho, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Lesotho is 2,311 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 1.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Lesotho peaked at 2,311 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 2,238 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Lesotho ranks 140th of 198 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2,255 kcal/cap/d | 2,238 kcal/cap/d | 2,262 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,268 kcal/cap/d | 2,264 kcal/cap/d | 2,275 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,295 kcal/cap/d | 2,280 kcal/cap/d | 2,311 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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)
- Cereal yield vs gdp per capita 0.8041 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Lesotho?
- Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Lesotho was 2,311 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 Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 2,311 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,238 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Lesotho rank for average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Lesotho ranks 140th out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Lesotho 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.