Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Tonga
Tonga: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,835 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Tonga, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
Tonga recorded 1,835 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 0.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Tonga peaked at 1,835 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,812 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places Tonga 98th 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 Tonga, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,812 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,813 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 1,814 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 1,814 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 1,814 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 1,813 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2006 | 1,813 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 1,814 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,816 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 1,818 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 1,819 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2011 | 1,820 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2012 | 1,821 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 1,823 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,825 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,826 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,827 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 1,828 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,829 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 1,831 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,833 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 1,833 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 1,832 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 1,831 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,833 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,835 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
Tonga compared with similar countries
- Tonga's 1,835 kcal/cap/d is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 1,858 kcal/cap/d, 99% of the median. (51 countries reporting)
- Tonga's 1,835 kcal/cap/d is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 1,815 kcal/cap/d, 1.0× the median. (22 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,814 kcal/cap/d | 1,812 kcal/cap/d | 1,818 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,825 kcal/cap/d | 1,819 kcal/cap/d | 1,831 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,833 kcal/cap/d | 1,831 kcal/cap/d | 1,835 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Tonga
More agriculture & rural data for Tonga
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 7.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1857 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,154 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.4224 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7884 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 18.6% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 18.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.7% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Tonga?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Tonga was 1,835 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 Tonga?
- The highest recorded value was 1,835 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Tonga?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,812 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Tonga rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Tonga ranks 98th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Tonga?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Tonga 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.