Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in China, Hong Kong SAR
China, Hong Kong SAR: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,883 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in China, Hong Kong SAR, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
In 2025, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in China, Hong Kong SAR stood at 1,883 kcal/cap/d. That is the lowest value across all 26 years on record.
That represents a change of down 0.1% on the previous year and down 0.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in China, Hong Kong SAR peaked at 1,916 kcal/cap/d in 2006 and was at its lowest, 1,883 kcal/cap/d, in 2025.
China, Hong Kong SAR ranks 81st of 181 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in China, Hong Kong SAR, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,897 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,901 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 1,903 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 1,905 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 1,908 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 1,913 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 1,916 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 1,916 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 1,914 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2009 | 1,913 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2010 | 1,913 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 1,911 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 1,907 kcal/cap/d | -0.2% |
| 2013 | 1,903 kcal/cap/d | -0.2% |
| 2014 | 1,900 kcal/cap/d | -0.2% |
| 2015 | 1,898 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,896 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 1,892 kcal/cap/d | -0.2% |
| 2018 | 1,889 kcal/cap/d | -0.2% |
| 2019 | 1,888 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,888 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 1,887 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2022 | 1,886 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 1,885 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,884 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,883 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,909 kcal/cap/d | 1,897 kcal/cap/d | 1,916 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,900 kcal/cap/d | 1,888 kcal/cap/d | 1,913 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,886 kcal/cap/d | 1,883 kcal/cap/d | 1,888 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in China, Hong Kong SAR?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in China, Hong Kong SAR was 1,883 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 China, Hong Kong SAR?
- The highest recorded value was 1,916 kcal/cap/d in 2006.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in China, Hong Kong SAR?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,883 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- How does China, Hong Kong SAR rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- China, Hong Kong SAR ranks 81st out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in China, Hong Kong SAR?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this China, Hong Kong SAR 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.