Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in El Salvador
El Salvador: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,799 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▲ Rising
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in El Salvador, 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 El Salvador stood at 1,799 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 1.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in El Salvador peaked at 1,799 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,709 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
El Salvador ranks 119th of 181 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in El Salvador, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,709 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,712 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 1,715 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 1,719 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 1,723 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 1,727 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 1,731 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 1,735 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2008 | 1,740 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2009 | 1,745 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2010 | 1,750 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 1,755 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 1,759 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 1,762 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 1,766 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 1,769 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 1,772 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 1,775 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 1,778 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 1,781 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 1,784 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 1,787 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 1,790 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 1,793 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 1,796 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2025 | 1,799 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,726 kcal/cap/d | 1,709 kcal/cap/d | 1,745 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,767 kcal/cap/d | 1,750 kcal/cap/d | 1,781 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,792 kcal/cap/d | 1,784 kcal/cap/d | 1,799 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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More agriculture & rural data for El Salvador
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.84 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.044 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 253.9 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2448 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 4.4 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.4 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in El Salvador?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in El Salvador was 1,799 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 El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 1,799 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,709 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does El Salvador rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- El Salvador ranks 119th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this El Salvador 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.