Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Uruguay
Uruguay: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,892 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Uruguay, 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 Uruguay is 1,892 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Uruguay peaked at 1,892 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,845 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Uruguay ranks 77th of 198 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,852 kcal/cap/d | 1,845 kcal/cap/d | 1,860 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,866 kcal/cap/d | 1,860 kcal/cap/d | 1,873 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,884 kcal/cap/d | 1,876 kcal/cap/d | 1,892 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Uruguay
- 74 Brazil 1,895 kcal/cap/d compare
- 75 Republic of Moldova 1,894 kcal/cap/d compare
- 76 Trinidad and Tobago 1,893 kcal/cap/d compare
- 77 Cabo Verde 1,892 kcal/cap/d compare
- 79 China, Macao SAR 1,891 kcal/cap/d compare
- 80 Armenia 1,890 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Uruguay
- Agriculture share gdp 6.38 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.38 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
- Rural population 4.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 147,108 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.45 billion current US$ (2025)
- Cereal yield vs gdp per capita 5.06 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Uruguay?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Uruguay was 1,892 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 Uruguay?
- The highest recorded value was 1,892 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Uruguay?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,845 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Uruguay rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Uruguay ranks 77th out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Uruguay?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Uruguay 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.