Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,742 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▲ Rising
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Timor-Leste, 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 Timor-Leste stood at 1,742 kcal/cap/d. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.3% on the previous year and up 3.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Timor-Leste peaked at 1,742 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,647 kcal/cap/d, in 2006.
That places Timor-Leste 172nd out of 198 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,649 kcal/cap/d | 1,647 kcal/cap/d | 1,650 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,685 kcal/cap/d | 1,653 kcal/cap/d | 1,712 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,728 kcal/cap/d | 1,715 kcal/cap/d | 1,742 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Timor-Leste?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Timor-Leste was 1,742 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 Timor-Leste?
- The highest recorded value was 1,742 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Timor-Leste?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,647 kcal/cap/d in 2006.
- How does Timor-Leste rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Timor-Leste ranks 172nd out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Timor-Leste?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Timor-Leste 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.