Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Lesotho
Lesotho: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,788 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Lesotho, 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 Lesotho is 1,788 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 1.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Lesotho peaked at 1,788 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,733 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Lesotho ranks 143rd of 198 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,744 kcal/cap/d | 1,733 kcal/cap/d | 1,749 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,755 kcal/cap/d | 1,750 kcal/cap/d | 1,762 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,777 kcal/cap/d | 1,766 kcal/cap/d | 1,788 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Lesotho
More agriculture & rural data for Lesotho
- Agriculture share gdp 6.49 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.49 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 55.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 1.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 166.92 million current US$ (2025)
- Cereal yield vs gdp per capita 0.8041 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Lesotho?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Lesotho was 1,788 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 Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 1,788 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,733 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Lesotho rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Lesotho ranks 143rd out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Lesotho 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.