Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Ecuador
Ecuador: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,812 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▲ Rising
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Ecuador, 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 Ecuador stood at 1,812 kcal/cap/d. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 2.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Ecuador peaked at 1,812 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,717 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places Ecuador 116th out of 198 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,736 kcal/cap/d | 1,717 kcal/cap/d | 1,753 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,775 kcal/cap/d | 1,757 kcal/cap/d | 1,792 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,804 kcal/cap/d | 1,796 kcal/cap/d | 1,812 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Ecuador
- 113 Samoa 1,823 kcal/cap/d compare
- 114 Kazakhstan 1,821 kcal/cap/d compare
- 114 Kyrgyzstan 1,821 kcal/cap/d compare
- 117 Eswatini 1,810 kcal/cap/d compare
- 117 India 1,810 kcal/cap/d compare
- 117 Uzbekistan 1,810 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture share gdp 9.7 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.7 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 36.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 6.70 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 12.64 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 7.59 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Ecuador?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Ecuador was 1,812 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 Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 1,812 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,717 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Ecuador rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Ecuador ranks 116th out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ecuador 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.