Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,778 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Burkina Faso, 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 Burkina Faso is 1,778 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.3% on the previous year and up 3.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Burkina Faso peaked at 1,778 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,697 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Burkina Faso ranks 138th of 181 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Burkina Faso, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,697 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,699 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 1,702 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 1,704 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 1,706 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 1,707 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2006 | 1,708 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 1,708 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 1,707 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2009 | 1,707 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 1,707 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 1,708 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2012 | 1,710 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 1,712 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,714 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,717 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 1,721 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 1,726 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 1,731 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 1,738 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2020 | 1,745 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2021 | 1,754 kcal/cap/d | +0.5% |
| 2022 | 1,760 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 1,766 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 1,772 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2025 | 1,778 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,704 kcal/cap/d | 1,697 kcal/cap/d | 1,708 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,718 kcal/cap/d | 1,707 kcal/cap/d | 1,738 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,762 kcal/cap/d | 1,745 kcal/cap/d | 1,778 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Burkina Faso
- 135 Honduras 1,783 kcal/cap/d compare
- 136 Sao Tome and Principe 1,781 kcal/cap/d compare
- 137 Philippines 1,780 kcal/cap/d compare
- 138 Tajikistan 1,778 kcal/cap/d compare
- 140 Cambodia 1,775 kcal/cap/d compare
- 141 Tokelau 1,774 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Burkina Faso
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.81 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1994 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 228.86 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.39 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7108 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 19.9% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 19.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 6.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Burkina Faso?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Burkina Faso was 1,778 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 Burkina Faso?
- The highest recorded value was 1,778 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,697 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Burkina Faso rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Burkina Faso ranks 138th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Burkina Faso?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Burkina Faso 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.