Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Lower-middle-income economies
Lower-middle-income economies: Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 2,312 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Lower-middle-income economies, 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 Lower-middle-income economies stood at 2,312 kcal/cap/d. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Lower-middle-income economies peaked at 2,312 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 2,209 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Lower-middle-income economies ranks 28th of 37 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Lower-middle-income economies, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2,209 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 2,215 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2002 | 2,220 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 2,226 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2004 | 2,231 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 2,236 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 2,241 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 2,245 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2008 | 2,248 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 2,252 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 2,256 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 2,260 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 2,263 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 2,266 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 2,270 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 2,274 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 2,277 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 2,281 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 2,285 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 2,288 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 2,293 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 2,297 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 2,301 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 2,305 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 2,308 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 2,312 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2,232 kcal/cap/d | 2,209 kcal/cap/d | 2,252 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,272 kcal/cap/d | 2,256 kcal/cap/d | 2,288 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,303 kcal/cap/d | 2,293 kcal/cap/d | 2,312 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Lower-middle-income economies
More agriculture & rural data for Lower-middle-income economies
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value 1,789 kcal/cap/d (2025)
- Per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — Value 7 kcal/cap/d (2025)
- Prevalence of obesity in the adult population (18 years and older) 12 % (2024)
- Percentage of children under 5 years of age who are overweight 4 % (2024)
- Percentage of children under 5 years of age who are stunted (modelled) 28.9 % (2024)
- Gross domestic product per capita, PPP, (constant 2021 international) 8,996 Int$/cap (2024)
- Number of obese adults (18 years and older) (million) — Value 242.5 million No (2024)
- Dietary energy supply used in the estimation of the prevalence of 2,714 kcal/cap/d (2024)
- Prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) 43.8 % (2023)
- Dietary energy supply used in the estimation of the prevalence of 2,710 kcal/cap/d (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Lower-middle-income economies?
- Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Lower-middle-income economies was 2,312 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 Lower-middle-income economies?
- The highest recorded value was 2,312 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Lower-middle-income economies?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,209 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Lower-middle-income economies rank for average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Lower-middle-income economies ranks 28th out of 37 groups with data for 2025.
- Is average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Lower-middle-income economies?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Lower-middle-income economies 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.