Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Botswana
Botswana: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,827 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Botswana, 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 Botswana is 1,827 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 0.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Botswana peaked at 1,827 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,777 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places Botswana 112th out of 198 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,794 kcal/cap/d | 1,777 kcal/cap/d | 1,803 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,809 kcal/cap/d | 1,802 kcal/cap/d | 1,820 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,824 kcal/cap/d | 1,823 kcal/cap/d | 1,827 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Botswana
- 109 Haiti 1,833 kcal/cap/d compare
- 109 Paraguay 1,833 kcal/cap/d compare
- 111 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1,830 kcal/cap/d compare
- 113 Samoa 1,823 kcal/cap/d compare
- 114 Kazakhstan 1,821 kcal/cap/d compare
- 114 Kyrgyzstan 1,821 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Botswana
- Agriculture share gdp 1.78 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.78 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2023)
- Rural population 32.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.1% (2025)
- Rural population 821,007 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 354.96 million current US$ (2025)
- Cereal yield vs gdp per capita 0.9004 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Botswana?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Botswana was 1,827 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 Botswana?
- The highest recorded value was 1,827 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Botswana?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,777 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Botswana rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Botswana ranks 112th out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Botswana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Botswana 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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About this data
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.