Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Lower-middle-income economies
Lower-middle-income economies: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,789 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Lower-middle-income economies, 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 Lower-middle-income economies stood at 1,789 kcal/cap/d. 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 1.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Lower-middle-income economies peaked at 1,789 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,713 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places Lower-middle-income economies 28th out of 37 groups with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Lower-middle-income economies, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,713 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,717 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 1,721 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 1,725 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 1,729 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 1,733 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 1,737 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 1,739 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,742 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 1,745 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 1,748 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 1,751 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 1,753 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 1,756 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 1,758 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,761 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 1,763 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 1,766 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 1,769 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 1,772 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 1,775 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 1,778 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 1,781 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 1,784 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 1,786 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,789 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,730 kcal/cap/d | 1,713 kcal/cap/d | 1,745 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,760 kcal/cap/d | 1,748 kcal/cap/d | 1,772 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,782 kcal/cap/d | 1,775 kcal/cap/d | 1,789 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Lower-middle-income economies
More agriculture & rural data for Lower-middle-income economies
- Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value 2,312 kcal/cap/d (2025)
- Per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — Value 7 kcal/cap/d (2025)
- Prevalence of obesity in the adult population (18 years and older) 12 % (2024)
- Percentage of children under 5 years of age who are overweight 4 % (2024)
- Percentage of children under 5 years of age who are stunted (modelled) 28.9 % (2024)
- Gross domestic product per capita, PPP, (constant 2021 international) 8,996 Int$/cap (2024)
- Number of obese adults (18 years and older) (million) — Value 242.5 million No (2024)
- Dietary energy supply used in the estimation of the prevalence of 2,714 kcal/cap/d (2024)
- Prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) 43.8 % (2023)
- Dietary energy supply used in the estimation of the prevalence of 2,710 kcal/cap/d (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Lower-middle-income economies?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Lower-middle-income economies was 1,789 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 Lower-middle-income economies?
- The highest recorded value was 1,789 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Lower-middle-income economies?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,713 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Lower-middle-income economies rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Lower-middle-income economies ranks 28th out of 37 groups with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Lower-middle-income economies?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Lower-middle-income economies 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.