Per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 9 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▲ Rising
Per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — value in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) is 9 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2025.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 47.1% on the previous year and unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — value in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 26 kcal/cap/d in 2017 and was at its lowest, 6 kcal/cap/d, in 2006.
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 29th of 37 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — Value in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 21 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 15 kcal/cap/d | -28.6% |
| 2002 | 13 kcal/cap/d | -13.3% |
| 2003 | 13 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 12 kcal/cap/d | -7.7% |
| 2005 | 10 kcal/cap/d | -16.7% |
| 2006 | 6 kcal/cap/d | -40.0% |
| 2007 | 7 kcal/cap/d | +16.7% |
| 2008 | 10 kcal/cap/d | +42.9% |
| 2009 | 13 kcal/cap/d | +30.0% |
| 2010 | 14 kcal/cap/d | +7.7% |
| 2011 | 14 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 11 kcal/cap/d | -21.4% |
| 2013 | 8 kcal/cap/d | -27.3% |
| 2014 | 9 kcal/cap/d | +12.5% |
| 2015 | 9 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 11 kcal/cap/d | +22.2% |
| 2017 | 26 kcal/cap/d | +136.4% |
| 2018 | 25 kcal/cap/d | -3.8% |
| 2019 | 21 kcal/cap/d | -16.0% |
| 2020 | 14 kcal/cap/d | -33.3% |
| 2021 | 24 kcal/cap/d | +71.4% |
| 2022 | 20 kcal/cap/d | -16.7% |
| 2023 | 20 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 17 kcal/cap/d | -15.0% |
| 2025 | 9 kcal/cap/d | -47.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 12 kcal/cap/d | 6 kcal/cap/d | 21 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 14.8 kcal/cap/d | 8 kcal/cap/d | 26 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 17.33 kcal/cap/d | 9 kcal/cap/d | 24 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- 26 Tunisia 49 kcal/cap/d compare
- 26 Uzbekistan 49 kcal/cap/d compare
- 26 Australia and New Zealand 49 kcal/cap/d compare
- 29 Botswana 48 kcal/cap/d compare
- 29 Chile 48 kcal/cap/d compare
- 29 Zambia 48 kcal/cap/d compare
- 32 Angola 47 kcal/cap/d compare
- 32 Slovenia 47 kcal/cap/d compare
- 32 Sudan 47 kcal/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Yield/Carcass Weight, annual growth rate 7.14 % change on previous year (2024)
- Pulses, Total — Production, annual growth rate 3.38 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested, annual growth rate 0.3601 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield, annual growth rate 1.89 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Production, annual growth rate 2.26 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered, annual growth 1.06 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested, annual growth rate 5.09 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goats — Stocks, annual growth rate 2.71 % change on previous year (2024)
- Pulses, Total — Yield, annual growth rate 4.33 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Production, annual growth rate 3.62 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — value in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — value in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 9 kcal/cap/d in 2025, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 26 kcal/cap/d in 2017.
- What is the lowest per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 6 kcal/cap/d in 2006.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 29th out of 37 groups with data for 2025.
- Is per capita food supply variability (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Per capita food supply variability (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.