Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Nepal
Nepal: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,768 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▲ Rising
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Nepal, 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 Nepal stood at 1,768 kcal/cap/d. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Nepal peaked at 1,768 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,658 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places Nepal 155th out of 198 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,681 kcal/cap/d | 1,658 kcal/cap/d | 1,711 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,735 kcal/cap/d | 1,718 kcal/cap/d | 1,748 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,764 kcal/cap/d | 1,756 kcal/cap/d | 1,768 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Nepal
- 152 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,773 kcal/cap/d compare
- 153 Bangladesh 1,770 kcal/cap/d compare
- 153 Micronesia 1,770 kcal/cap/d compare
- 156 Côte d'Ivoire 1,765 kcal/cap/d compare
- 157 Guinea-Bissau 1,763 kcal/cap/d compare
- 158 Zimbabwe 1,761 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Nepal
- Agriculture share gdp 21.56 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 21.56 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2022)
- Rural population 33.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 9.77 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.81 billion current US$ (2025)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross per 175.34 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Nepal?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Nepal was 1,768 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 Nepal?
- The highest recorded value was 1,768 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Nepal?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,658 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Nepal rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Nepal ranks 155th out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Nepal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nepal 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.