Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin America and the Caribbean: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,861 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
Latin America and the Caribbean recorded 1,861 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 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Latin America and the Caribbean peaked at 1,861 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,797 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Latin America and the Caribbean ranks 17th of 37 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Latin America and the Caribbean, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,797 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,801 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 1,804 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 1,808 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 1,812 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 1,817 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 1,820 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 1,824 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2008 | 1,828 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 1,831 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 1,833 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2011 | 1,835 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2012 | 1,838 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 1,840 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,842 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,843 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,845 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 1,847 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,848 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 1,850 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,852 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 1,854 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 1,856 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 1,857 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,859 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,861 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,814 kcal/cap/d | 1,797 kcal/cap/d | 1,831 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,842 kcal/cap/d | 1,833 kcal/cap/d | 1,850 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,856 kcal/cap/d | 1,852 kcal/cap/d | 1,861 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Latin America and the Caribbean
- 14 Czechia 1,953 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Kuwait 1,953 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Slovakia 1,953 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
- 18 Bahrain 1,948 kcal/cap/d compare
- 18 United Republic of Tanzania 1,712 kcal/cap/d compare
- 19 Italy 1,947 kcal/cap/d compare
- 20 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,659 kcal/cap/d compare
- 20 Hungary 1,946 kcal/cap/d compare
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- Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value 2,409 kcal/cap/d (2025)
- Per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — Value 13 kcal/cap/d (2025)
- Percentage of children under 5 years of age who are overweight 8.8 % (2024)
- Prevalence of obesity in the adult population (18 years and older) 31.5 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Latin America and the Caribbean?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Latin America and the Caribbean was 1,861 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 Latin America and the Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 1,861 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Latin America and the Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,797 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Latin America and the Caribbean rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Latin America and the Caribbean ranks 17th out of 37 groups with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Latin America and the Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Latin America and the Caribbean 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.