Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Congo
Congo: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,754 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Congo, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
Congo recorded 1,754 kcal/cap/d for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value 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 1.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Congo peaked at 1,754 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,724 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Congo ranks 163rd of 198 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,732 kcal/cap/d | 1,724 kcal/cap/d | 1,737 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,729 kcal/cap/d | 1,725 kcal/cap/d | 1,736 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,745 kcal/cap/d | 1,736 kcal/cap/d | 1,754 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Congo
- 161 Sierra Leone 1,759 kcal/cap/d compare
- 162 Comoros 1,758 kcal/cap/d compare
- 164 Eritrea 1,752 kcal/cap/d compare
- 165 Melanesia 1,751 kcal/cap/d compare
- 166 Mauritania 1,748 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Congo
- Agriculture share gdp 10.11 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 10.11 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.4% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
- Rural population 35.9% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 2.33 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 10.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.65 billion current US$ (2025)
- Cereal yield vs gdp per capita 0.8777 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Congo?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Congo was 1,754 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 Congo?
- The highest recorded value was 1,754 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Congo?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,724 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Congo rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Congo ranks 163rd out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Congo?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Congo 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.