Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Northern Africa
Northern Africa: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,812 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Northern 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 Northern Africa stood at 1,812 kcal/cap/d. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Northern Africa peaked at 1,812 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,773 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Northern Africa ranks 23rd of 37 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Northern Africa, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,773 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,778 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2002 | 1,783 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 1,786 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 1,788 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 1,790 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2006 | 1,792 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 1,794 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,794 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 1,795 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 1,795 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 1,794 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 1,793 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2013 | 1,792 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,792 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 1,791 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,790 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 1,790 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 1,792 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 1,794 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,796 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 1,799 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 1,802 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 1,805 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 1,809 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2025 | 1,812 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,787 kcal/cap/d | 1,773 kcal/cap/d | 1,795 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,792 kcal/cap/d | 1,790 kcal/cap/d | 1,795 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,804 kcal/cap/d | 1,796 kcal/cap/d | 1,812 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Northern Africa?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Northern Africa was 1,812 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 Northern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 1,812 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Northern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,773 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Northern Africa rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Northern Africa ranks 23rd out of 37 groups with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Northern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Northern 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.