Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Gambia
Gambia: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,789 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Gambia, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
Gambia recorded 1,789 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.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 2.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Gambia peaked at 1,789 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,712 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places Gambia 131st out of 181 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Gambia, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,712 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,715 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 1,718 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 1,721 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 1,724 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 1,727 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 1,730 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 1,732 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,734 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 1,736 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 1,738 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2011 | 1,740 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2012 | 1,741 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 1,742 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,743 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,746 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 1,749 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 1,753 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 1,757 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 1,762 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 1,767 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2021 | 1,771 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 1,776 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 1,780 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 1,784 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2025 | 1,789 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,725 kcal/cap/d | 1,712 kcal/cap/d | 1,736 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,747 kcal/cap/d | 1,738 kcal/cap/d | 1,762 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,778 kcal/cap/d | 1,767 kcal/cap/d | 1,789 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Gambia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 25.87 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2385 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 219.17 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.2766 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0004 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3501 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 23.85 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 23.85 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Gambia?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Gambia was 1,789 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 Gambia?
- The highest recorded value was 1,789 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Gambia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,712 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Gambia rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Gambia ranks 131st out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Gambia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Gambia 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.