Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,925 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 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 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is 1,925 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
That represents a change of 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 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland peaked at 1,925 kcal/cap/d in 2004 and was at its lowest, 1,916 kcal/cap/d, in 2015.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ranks 34th of 181 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 1,924 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 1,925 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 1,925 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 1,925 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 1,924 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2009 | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2010 | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2011 | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 1,918 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2013 | 1,917 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,917 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 1,916 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,916 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 1,916 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 1,916 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 1,917 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,918 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 1,921 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,924 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,925 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | 1,925 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,917 kcal/cap/d | 1,916 kcal/cap/d | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | 1,918 kcal/cap/d | 1,925 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was 1,925 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 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
- The highest recorded value was 1,925 kcal/cap/d in 2004.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,916 kcal/cap/d in 2015.
- How does United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ranks 34th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 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.