Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Upper-middle-income economies
Upper-middle-income economies: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,878 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Upper-middle-income economies, 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 Upper-middle-income economies stood at 1,878 kcal/cap/d. 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 0.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Upper-middle-income economies peaked at 1,878 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,837 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places Upper-middle-income economies 12th out of 37 groups with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Upper-middle-income economies, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,837 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,841 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 1,846 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 1,851 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2004 | 1,855 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 1,858 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 1,861 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 1,863 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,864 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 1,864 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 1,864 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 1,864 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 1,863 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2013 | 1,862 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,861 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,861 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 1,860 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 1,860 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 1,860 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 1,861 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,864 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 1,867 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 1,871 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 1,873 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,876 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2025 | 1,878 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,854 kcal/cap/d | 1,837 kcal/cap/d | 1,864 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,862 kcal/cap/d | 1,860 kcal/cap/d | 1,864 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,872 kcal/cap/d | 1,864 kcal/cap/d | 1,878 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Upper-middle-income economies
- 10 Switzerland 1,963 kcal/cap/d compare
- 11 Belgium 1,959 kcal/cap/d compare
- 11 Cabo Verde 1,892 kcal/cap/d compare
- 11 Viet Nam 1,789 kcal/cap/d compare
- 12 Denmark 1,957 kcal/cap/d compare
- 12 Sweden 1,957 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Czechia 1,953 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Kuwait 1,953 kcal/cap/d compare
- 14 Slovakia 1,953 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Upper-middle-income economies
- Average dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value 2,432 kcal/cap/d (2025)
- Per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — Value 20 kcal/cap/d (2025)
- Prevalence of obesity in the adult population (18 years and older) 16.7 % (2024)
- Percentage of children under 5 years of age who are overweight 8.6 % (2024)
- Percentage of children under 5 years of age who are stunted (modelled) 10.8 % (2024)
- Gross domestic product per capita, PPP, (constant 2021 international) 21,738 Int$/cap (2024)
- Number of obese adults (18 years and older) (million) — Value 361.7 million No (2024)
- Dietary energy supply used in the estimation of the prevalence of 3,287 kcal/cap/d (2024)
- Prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) 20.1 % (2023)
- Dietary energy supply used in the estimation of the prevalence of 3,293 kcal/cap/d (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Upper-middle-income economies?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Upper-middle-income economies was 1,878 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 Upper-middle-income economies?
- The highest recorded value was 1,878 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Upper-middle-income economies?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,837 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Upper-middle-income economies rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Upper-middle-income economies ranks 12th out of 37 groups with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Upper-middle-income economies?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Upper-middle-income economies 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.