Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia
Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,874 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia, 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 Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia is 1,874 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia peaked at 1,874 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,836 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 13th out of 37 groups with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,836 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,840 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 1,845 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 1,849 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 1,853 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 1,856 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 1,858 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 1,860 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,860 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 1,861 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 1,860 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2011 | 1,860 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 1,859 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2013 | 1,858 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,857 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,856 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,856 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 1,855 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,854 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 1,856 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,859 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 1,863 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 1,866 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 1,869 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 1,872 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2025 | 1,874 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,852 kcal/cap/d | 1,836 kcal/cap/d | 1,861 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,857 kcal/cap/d | 1,854 kcal/cap/d | 1,860 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,867 kcal/cap/d | 1,859 kcal/cap/d | 1,874 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia
- 10 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1,830 kcal/cap/d compare
- 10 Switzerland 1,963 kcal/cap/d compare
- 11 Belgium 1,959 kcal/cap/d compare
- 11 Cabo Verde 1,892 kcal/cap/d compare
- 11 Viet Nam 1,789 kcal/cap/d compare
- 12 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,773 kcal/cap/d compare
- 12 Denmark 1,957 kcal/cap/d compare
- 12 Sweden 1,957 kcal/cap/d compare
- 13 Micronesia 1,770 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Czechia 1,953 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Kuwait 1,953 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Slovakia 1,953 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Melanesia 1,751 kcal/cap/d compare
- 15 Micronesia (Federated States of) 1,743 kcal/cap/d compare
- 16 Timor-Leste 1,742 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia
- Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value 2,428 kcal/cap/d (2025)
- Per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — Value 22 kcal/cap/d (2025)
- Percentage of children under 5 years of age who are stunted (modelled) 13.1 % (2024)
- Percentage of children under 5 years of age who are overweight 7.5 % (2024)
- Prevalence of obesity in the adult population (18 years and older) 9.5 % (2024)
- Gross domestic product per capita, PPP, (constant 2021 international) 22,679 Int$/cap (2024)
- Percentage of population using at least basic sanitation services 95 % (2024)
- Number of obese adults (18 years and older) (million) — Value 173 million No (2024)
- Dietary energy supply used in the estimation of the prevalence of 3,265 kcal/cap/d (2024)
- Percentage of population using safely managed sanitation services 64 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia was 1,874 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 Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 1,874 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,836 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia ranks 13th out of 37 groups with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 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.