Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in South Sudan
South Sudan: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,760 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▲ Rising
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in South Sudan, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
South Sudan recorded 1,760 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 0.2% on the previous year and up 3.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in South Sudan peaked at 1,760 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,666 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places South Sudan 146th out of 181 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.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in South Sudan, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,666 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,666 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 1,667 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 1,669 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 1,672 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 1,677 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 1,682 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 1,688 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2008 | 1,693 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2009 | 1,697 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 1,702 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 1,708 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2012 | 1,711 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 1,713 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,710 kcal/cap/d | -0.2% |
| 2015 | 1,708 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,708 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 1,703 kcal/cap/d | -0.3% |
| 2018 | 1,709 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 1,722 kcal/cap/d | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 1,732 kcal/cap/d | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 1,739 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2022 | 1,744 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 1,750 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 1,756 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2025 | 1,760 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,678 kcal/cap/d | 1,666 kcal/cap/d | 1,697 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,709 kcal/cap/d | 1,702 kcal/cap/d | 1,722 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,747 kcal/cap/d | 1,732 kcal/cap/d | 1,760 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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More agriculture & rural data for South Sudan
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 17.13 % change on previous year (2015)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.66 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 111.85 current US$ per person (2015)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0008 units per US$ of GDP (2015)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1036 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2015)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7832 units per person (2025)
- Rural population 78.3% (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 10.36 (2015)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.24 billion current US$ (2015)
- Rural population 9.55 million (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in South Sudan?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in South Sudan was 1,760 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 South Sudan?
- The highest recorded value was 1,760 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in South Sudan?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,666 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does South Sudan rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- South Sudan ranks 146th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in South Sudan?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South Sudan 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.