Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Jamaica
Jamaica: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,937 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▲ Rising
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Jamaica, 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 Jamaica stood at 1,937 kcal/cap/d. 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 1.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Jamaica peaked at 1,937 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,823 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Jamaica ranks 26th of 181 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Jamaica, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,823 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,829 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2002 | 1,835 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 1,840 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2004 | 1,846 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2005 | 1,851 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 1,857 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 1,862 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2008 | 1,868 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2009 | 1,874 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2010 | 1,880 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 1,886 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 1,892 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 1,898 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 1,903 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 1,908 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 1,912 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 1,917 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 1,924 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 1,927 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 1,930 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 1,932 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 1,934 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,936 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,937 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,848 kcal/cap/d | 1,823 kcal/cap/d | 1,874 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,904 kcal/cap/d | 1,880 kcal/cap/d | 1,924 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,933 kcal/cap/d | 1,927 kcal/cap/d | 1,937 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Jamaica
More agriculture & rural data for Jamaica
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.16 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0874 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 699.7 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.28 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4057 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 8.74 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.74 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Jamaica?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Jamaica was 1,937 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 Jamaica?
- The highest recorded value was 1,937 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Jamaica?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,823 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Jamaica rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Jamaica ranks 26th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Jamaica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Jamaica 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.