Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Cameroon
Cameroon: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,760 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Cameroon, 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 Cameroon is 1,760 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
That represents a change of 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 Cameroon peaked at 1,760 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,717 kcal/cap/d, in 2004.
That places Cameroon 159th out of 198 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,719 kcal/cap/d | 1,717 kcal/cap/d | 1,722 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,731 kcal/cap/d | 1,720 kcal/cap/d | 1,742 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,752 kcal/cap/d | 1,745 kcal/cap/d | 1,760 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Cameroon
- 156 Côte d'Ivoire 1,765 kcal/cap/d compare
- 157 Guinea-Bissau 1,763 kcal/cap/d compare
- 158 Zimbabwe 1,761 kcal/cap/d compare
- 159 South Sudan 1,760 kcal/cap/d compare
- 161 Sierra Leone 1,759 kcal/cap/d compare
- 162 Comoros 1,758 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture share gdp 16.85 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.85 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
- Rural population 44.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.0% (2025)
- Rural population 13.25 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.93 billion current US$ (2025)
- Cereal yield vs gdp per capita 1.77 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Cameroon?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Cameroon was 1,760 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 Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 1,760 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,717 kcal/cap/d in 2004.
- How does Cameroon rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Cameroon ranks 159th out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Cameroon 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.