Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Western Asia
Western Asia: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,842 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Western Asia, 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 Western Asia is 1,842 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Western Asia peaked at 1,842 kcal/cap/d in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,766 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
Western Asia ranks 19th of 37 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Western Asia, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,766 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,771 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2002 | 1,776 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 1,781 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2004 | 1,786 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2005 | 1,791 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 1,797 kcal/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 1,804 kcal/cap/d | +0.4% |
| 2008 | 1,808 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 1,811 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 1,814 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 1,817 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 1,820 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 1,821 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,821 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 1,823 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,824 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 1,825 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,826 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 1,827 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,829 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 1,831 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 1,835 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 1,838 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 1,840 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,842 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,789 kcal/cap/d | 1,766 kcal/cap/d | 1,811 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,822 kcal/cap/d | 1,814 kcal/cap/d | 1,827 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,836 kcal/cap/d | 1,829 kcal/cap/d | 1,842 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Western Asia
More agriculture & rural data for Western Asia
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight -2.78 % change on previous year (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production, annual growth rate 6.99 % change on previous year (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield, annual growth rate 0.2511 % change on previous year (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested, annual growth rate 6.72 % change on previous year (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks, annual growth rate 0.1146 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production, annual 8.98 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 12.19 % change on previous year (2024)
- Bananas — Production 1.37 million t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 788,652 An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 291,165 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Western Asia?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Western Asia was 1,842 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 Western Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 1,842 kcal/cap/d in 2025.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Western Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,766 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does Western Asia rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Western Asia ranks 19th out of 37 groups with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Western Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Western Asia 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.