Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Kuwait
Kuwait: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,953 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Kuwait, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Kuwait is 1,953 kcal/cap/d, measured 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 2.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Kuwait peaked at 1,953 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,854 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places Kuwait 14th out of 181 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top 10%.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Kuwait, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,854 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,863 kcal/cap/d | +0.5% |
| 2002 | 1,871 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2003 | 1,880 kcal/cap/d | +0.5% |
| 2004 | 1,888 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2005 | 1,892 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 1,892 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 1,891 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,892 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 1,893 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 1,894 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2011 | 1,897 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 1,900 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 1,900 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 1,901 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,904 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 1,910 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 1,915 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2021 | 1,929 kcal/cap/d | +0.5% |
| 2022 | 1,945 kcal/cap/d | +0.8% |
| 2023 | 1,950 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 1,952 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,953 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
Kuwait compared with similar countries
- Kuwait's 1,953 kcal/cap/d is above the median for high income countries, which is 1,928 kcal/cap/d, 1.0× the median. (56 countries reporting)
- Kuwait's 1,953 kcal/cap/d is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 1,843 kcal/cap/d, 1.1× the median. (21 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,882 kcal/cap/d | 1,854 kcal/cap/d | 1,893 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,906 kcal/cap/d | 1,894 kcal/cap/d | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,941 kcal/cap/d | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | 1,953 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Kuwait
- 11 Belgium 1,959 kcal/cap/d compare
- 11 Cabo Verde 1,892 kcal/cap/d compare
- 11 Viet Nam 1,789 kcal/cap/d compare
- 12 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,773 kcal/cap/d compare
- 12 Denmark 1,957 kcal/cap/d compare
- 12 Sweden 1,957 kcal/cap/d compare
- 13 Micronesia 1,770 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Czechia 1,953 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Slovakia 1,953 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Caribbean 1,872 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Melanesia 1,751 kcal/cap/d compare
- 15 Micronesia (Federated States of) 1,743 kcal/cap/d compare
- 16 Timor-Leste 1,742 kcal/cap/d compare
- 17 Cyprus 1,950 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Kuwait
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.59 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0053 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 171.42 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -100 % change on previous year (2005)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 0.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 0.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Kuwait?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Kuwait was 1,953 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 Kuwait?
- The highest recorded value was 1,953 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Kuwait?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,854 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Kuwait rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Kuwait ranks 14th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Kuwait?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Kuwait 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.