Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Southern Asia
Southern Asia: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,797 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Southern Asia, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Southern Asia is 1,797 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Southern Asia peaked at 1,797 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,713 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Southern Asia ranks 26th of 37 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Southern Asia, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,713 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,718 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2002 | 1,723 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 1,727 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 1,733 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2005 | 1,738 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 1,743 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 1,746 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2008 | 1,749 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 1,753 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 1,756 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 1,760 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 1,762 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 1,765 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 1,768 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 1,770 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,773 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 1,776 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 1,779 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 1,782 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 1,784 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 1,787 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 1,790 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 1,792 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,794 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,797 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,734 kcal/cap/d | 1,713 kcal/cap/d | 1,753 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,769 kcal/cap/d | 1,756 kcal/cap/d | 1,782 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,791 kcal/cap/d | 1,784 kcal/cap/d | 1,797 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Southern Asia
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Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Southern Asia?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Southern Asia was 1,797 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 Southern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 1,797 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Southern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,713 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Southern Asia rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Southern Asia ranks 26th out of 37 groups with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Southern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Southern Asia 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.