Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Belize
Belize: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,801 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▲ Rising
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Belize, 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 Belize is 1,801 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 2.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Belize peaked at 1,801 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,695 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Belize ranks 118th of 181 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Belize, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,695 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,699 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 1,702 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 1,705 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 1,708 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 1,712 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 1,715 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 1,719 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2008 | 1,723 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 1,727 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 1,733 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 1,741 kcal/cap/d | +0.5% |
| 2012 | 1,748 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2013 | 1,753 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 1,759 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 1,763 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 1,768 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 1,773 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 1,775 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 1,778 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 1,782 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 1,786 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 1,793 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 1,797 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 1,799 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,801 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
Belize compared with similar countries
- Belize's 1,801 kcal/cap/d is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 1,858 kcal/cap/d, 97% of the median. (51 countries reporting)
- Belize's 1,801 kcal/cap/d is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 1,886 kcal/cap/d, 96% of the median. (32 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,710 kcal/cap/d | 1,695 kcal/cap/d | 1,727 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,759 kcal/cap/d | 1,733 kcal/cap/d | 1,778 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,793 kcal/cap/d | 1,782 kcal/cap/d | 1,801 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Belize
More agriculture & rural data for Belize
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0795 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 610.5 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.74 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5844 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 7.9% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 7.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Belize?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Belize was 1,801 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 Belize?
- The highest recorded value was 1,801 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Belize?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,695 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Belize rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Belize ranks 118th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Belize?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Belize 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.