Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Western Europe
Western Europe: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,944 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Western Europe, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
Western Europe recorded 1,944 kcal/cap/d for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 26 years on record.
That represents a change of down 0.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Western Europe peaked at 1,952 kcal/cap/d in 2006 and was at its lowest, 1,944 kcal/cap/d, in 2022.
Western Europe ranks 4th of 37 groups on this measure, in the top 10%.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Western Europe, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,949 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,949 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 1,950 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 1,951 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 1,951 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 1,951 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 1,952 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 1,952 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 1,952 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 1,951 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2010 | 1,950 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2011 | 1,950 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 1,950 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 1,950 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 1,950 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 1,949 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,949 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 1,948 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,947 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 1,946 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,946 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 1,945 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2022 | 1,944 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 1,944 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 1,944 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 1,944 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,951 kcal/cap/d | 1,949 kcal/cap/d | 1,952 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,949 kcal/cap/d | 1,946 kcal/cap/d | 1,950 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,944 kcal/cap/d | 1,944 kcal/cap/d | 1,946 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Western Europe
- 1 Qatar 2,024 kcal/cap/d compare
- 2 United Arab Emirates 2,007 kcal/cap/d compare
- 3 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 1,980 kcal/cap/d compare
- 4 Luxembourg 1,976 kcal/cap/d compare
- 5 Finland 1,971 kcal/cap/d compare
- 6 Norway 1,968 kcal/cap/d compare
- 7 Malta 1,967 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Western Europe
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production, annual 0.487 % change on previous year (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks, annual growth rate -0.437 % change on previous year (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested, annual growth rate 0.7159 % change on previous year (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield, annual growth rate 6.86 % change on previous year (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production, annual growth rate 7.62 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing -0.2961 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 1.04 % change on previous year (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production, annual 0.9364 % change on previous year (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing -0.2961 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production, annual growth rate 0.9254 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Western Europe?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in Western Europe was 1,944 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 Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 1,952 kcal/cap/d in 2006.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Western Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,944 kcal/cap/d in 2022.
- How does Western Europe rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Western Europe ranks 4th out of 37 groups with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Western Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Western Europe 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.