Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in India
India: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,810 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▲ Rising
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in India, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
India recorded 1,810 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.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in India peaked at 1,810 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,714 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places India 117th 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 | 1,738 kcal/cap/d | 1,714 kcal/cap/d | 1,759 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,778 kcal/cap/d | 1,762 kcal/cap/d | 1,793 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,804 kcal/cap/d | 1,796 kcal/cap/d | 1,810 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near India
- 114 Kazakhstan 1,821 kcal/cap/d compare
- 114 Kyrgyzstan 1,821 kcal/cap/d compare
- 116 Ecuador 1,812 kcal/cap/d compare
- 117 Eswatini 1,810 kcal/cap/d compare
- 117 Uzbekistan 1,810 kcal/cap/d compare
- 120 Kenya 1,809 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for India
- Agriculture share gdp 16.23 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.23 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (2024)
- Rural population 64.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 941.42 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 642.24 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 37.61 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in India?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in India was 1,810 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 India?
- The highest recorded value was 1,810 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,714 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does India rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- India ranks 117th out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this India 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.