Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,733 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 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 Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) stood at 1,733 kcal/cap/d. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 1,733 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,672 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 36th out of 37 groups with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,672 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,674 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 1,676 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 1,678 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 1,680 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 1,682 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2006 | 1,684 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 1,686 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,688 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 1,690 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 1,692 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2011 | 1,695 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 1,697 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 1,699 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,702 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 1,704 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,708 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 1,711 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 1,714 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 1,717 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 1,719 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 1,723 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 1,725 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 1,728 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 1,730 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,733 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,681 kcal/cap/d | 1,672 kcal/cap/d | 1,690 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,704 kcal/cap/d | 1,692 kcal/cap/d | 1,717 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,726 kcal/cap/d | 1,719 kcal/cap/d | 1,733 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- 33 Canada 1,928 kcal/cap/d compare
- 34 New Zealand 1,925 kcal/cap/d compare
- 34 Slovenia 1,925 kcal/cap/d compare
- 34 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1,925 kcal/cap/d compare
- 37 Bahamas 1,924 kcal/cap/d compare
- 38 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,923 kcal/cap/d compare
- 39 Australia 1,922 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- Cabbages — Yield, annual growth rate -4.44 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Production, annual growth rate 1.66 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested, annual growth rate 0.3601 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Area harvested, annual growth rate 1.82 % change on previous year (2024)
- Pulses, Total — Production, annual growth rate 3.38 % change on previous year (2024)
- Pulses, Total — Yield, annual growth rate 4.33 % change on previous year (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production, annual 6.1 % change on previous year (2024)
- Poultry Birds — Stocks, annual growth rate 2.66 % change on previous year (2024)
- Pulses, Total — Area harvested, annual growth rate -0.9081 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Yield, annual growth rate -1.51 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 1,733 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 Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 1,733 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,672 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 36th out of 37 groups with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 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.