Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,687 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Middle Africa, 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 Middle Africa stood at 1,687 kcal/cap/d. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 0.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Middle Africa peaked at 1,687 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,672 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places Middle Africa 19th out of 20 regions with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Middle Africa, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,672 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 1,674 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2009 | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 1,674 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,674 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 1,675 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,676 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 1,677 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,677 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 1,678 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,678 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 1,680 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 1,681 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 1,683 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,685 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,687 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | 1,672 kcal/cap/d | 1,674 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,675 kcal/cap/d | 1,673 kcal/cap/d | 1,678 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,682 kcal/cap/d | 1,678 kcal/cap/d | 1,687 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Middle Africa?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Middle Africa was 1,687 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 Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 1,687 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,672 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Middle Africa rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Middle Africa ranks 19th out of 20 regions with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Middle Africa 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.