Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,744 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Papua New Guinea, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
Papua New Guinea recorded 1,744 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.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Papua New Guinea peaked at 1,744 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,688 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Papua New Guinea ranks 155th of 181 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Papua New Guinea, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,688 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,690 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 1,692 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 1,694 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 1,696 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 1,698 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2006 | 1,700 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 1,702 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,705 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 1,707 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 1,709 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2011 | 1,712 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 1,714 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 1,716 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,718 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,721 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 1,723 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 1,726 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 1,728 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 1,731 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 1,733 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 1,735 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 1,737 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 1,740 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 1,742 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,744 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,697 kcal/cap/d | 1,688 kcal/cap/d | 1,707 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,720 kcal/cap/d | 1,709 kcal/cap/d | 1,731 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,738 kcal/cap/d | 1,733 kcal/cap/d | 1,744 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Papua New Guinea
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.3264 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1702 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 495.76 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.31 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.8422 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 17.02 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 17.02 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.6% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Papua New Guinea?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Papua New Guinea was 1,744 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 Papua New Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 1,744 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Papua New Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,688 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Papua New Guinea rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Papua New Guinea ranks 155th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Papua New Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Papua New Guinea 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.