Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,921 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum 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
Australia and New Zealand recorded 1,921 kcal/cap/d for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in 2025.
That represents a change of up 0.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 1,923 kcal/cap/d in 2004 and was at its lowest, 1,918 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Australia and New Zealand ranks 40th of 181 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,918 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2010 | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2013 | 1,918 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,918 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 1,918 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 1,918 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 1,918 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | 1,918 kcal/cap/d | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | 1,918 kcal/cap/d | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Australia and New Zealand?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Australia and New Zealand was 1,921 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 Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 1,923 kcal/cap/d in 2004.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,918 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 40th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.2%. 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 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.