Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,659 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Democratic Republic of the Congo, 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 Democratic Republic of the Congo is 1,659 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 0.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Democratic Republic of the Congo peaked at 1,659 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,656 kcal/cap/d, in 2001.
Democratic Republic of the Congo ranks 20th of 20 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Democratic Republic of the Congo, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,657 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2002 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 1,657 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2006 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2007 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 1,657 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,657 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 1,657 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,658 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,659 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | 1,657 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | 1,657 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,657 kcal/cap/d | 1,656 kcal/cap/d | 1,659 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Democratic Republic of the Congo?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Democratic Republic of the Congo was 1,659 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 Democratic Republic of the Congo?
- The highest recorded value was 1,659 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Democratic Republic of the Congo?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,656 kcal/cap/d in 2001.
- How does Democratic Republic of the Congo rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Democratic Republic of the Congo ranks 20th out of 20 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Democratic Republic of the Congo?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Democratic Republic of the 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.