Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Niger
Niger: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,701 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Niger, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
Niger recorded 1,701 kcal/cap/d for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in 2025. 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 2.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Niger peaked at 1,701 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,662 kcal/cap/d, in 2008.
That places Niger 191st out of 198 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,666 kcal/cap/d | 1,662 kcal/cap/d | 1,672 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,669 kcal/cap/d | 1,662 kcal/cap/d | 1,680 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,692 kcal/cap/d | 1,683 kcal/cap/d | 1,701 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Niger
- Agriculture share gdp 47.59 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 47.59 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
- Rural population 81.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.8% (2025)
- Rural population 22.79 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 47.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 10.30 billion current US$ (2025)
- Cereal yield vs gdp per capita 0.5774 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Niger?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Niger was 1,701 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 Niger?
- The highest recorded value was 1,701 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Niger?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,662 kcal/cap/d in 2008.
- How does Niger rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Niger ranks 191st out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Niger?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Niger 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.