Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Portugal
Portugal: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,916 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Portugal, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
Portugal recorded 1,916 kcal/cap/d for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 26 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.1% on the previous year and down 0.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Portugal peaked at 1,923 kcal/cap/d in 2007 and was at its lowest, 1,916 kcal/cap/d, in 2025.
That places Portugal 50th out of 181 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Portugal, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2013 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2021 | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,918 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,916 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | 1,916 kcal/cap/d | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Portugal
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 7.28 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0196 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 628.85 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.5936 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.385 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 1.96 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.96 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Portugal?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Portugal was 1,916 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 Portugal?
- The highest recorded value was 1,923 kcal/cap/d in 2007.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Portugal?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,916 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- How does Portugal rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Portugal ranks 50th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Portugal?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Portugal 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.