Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,670 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▲ Rising
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Afghanistan, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Afghanistan is 1,670 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Afghanistan peaked at 1,670 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,577 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Afghanistan ranks 180th of 181 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Afghanistan, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,577 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,580 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 1,583 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 1,588 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2004 | 1,593 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2005 | 1,599 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2006 | 1,605 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2007 | 1,609 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2008 | 1,613 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 1,617 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 1,621 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 1,625 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 1,629 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 1,633 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 1,636 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 1,640 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 1,643 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 1,646 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 1,649 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 1,652 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 1,655 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 1,658 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 1,661 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 1,664 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 1,667 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2025 | 1,670 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,596 kcal/cap/d | 1,577 kcal/cap/d | 1,617 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,637 kcal/cap/d | 1,621 kcal/cap/d | 1,652 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,662 kcal/cap/d | 1,655 kcal/cap/d | 1,670 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Afghanistan
- 177 Burundi 1,684 kcal/cap/d compare
- 178 Mozambique 1,682 kcal/cap/d compare
- 179 Angola 1,681 kcal/cap/d compare
- 181 Central African Republic 1,648 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Afghanistan
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.31 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3429 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 142.96 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 2.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0018 units per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7406 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 34.29 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 34.29 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 21.0% (2019)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2019)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Afghanistan?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Afghanistan was 1,670 kcal/cap/d in 2025, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Afghanistan?
- The highest recorded value was 1,670 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Afghanistan?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,577 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Afghanistan rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Afghanistan ranks 180th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Afghanistan?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Afghanistan data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Minimum 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.