Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Benin
Benin: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,735 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Benin, 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 Benin is 1,735 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 1.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Benin peaked at 1,735 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,682 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Benin ranks 178th of 198 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,692 kcal/cap/d | 1,682 kcal/cap/d | 1,701 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,709 kcal/cap/d | 1,703 kcal/cap/d | 1,717 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,728 kcal/cap/d | 1,720 kcal/cap/d | 1,735 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Benin
- Agriculture share gdp 22.92 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 22.92 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 52.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
- Rural population 46.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 6.91 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 22.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.63 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 20,973 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Benin?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Benin was 1,735 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 Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 1,735 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,682 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Benin rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Benin ranks 178th out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Benin 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.