Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Kenya
Kenya: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,809 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▲ Rising
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Kenya, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
Kenya recorded 1,809 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 0.2% on the previous year and up 4.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Kenya peaked at 1,809 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,665 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places Kenya 120th 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 | 1,677 kcal/cap/d | 1,665 kcal/cap/d | 1,690 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,724 kcal/cap/d | 1,693 kcal/cap/d | 1,766 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,796 kcal/cap/d | 1,777 kcal/cap/d | 1,809 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture share gdp 23.16 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 23.16 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 67.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.5% (2025)
- Rural population 39.00 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 31.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.06 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Kenya?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Kenya was 1,809 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 Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 1,809 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,665 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Kenya rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Kenya ranks 120th out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kenya 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.