Sweets and sugars — Energy supply — Value in Cameroon
Cameroon: Sweets and sugars — Energy supply — Value was 175 kcal/cap/d in 2023. ▲ Rising
Sweets and sugars — Energy supply — Value in Cameroon, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
In 2023, sweets and sugars — energy supply — value in Cameroon stood at 175 kcal/cap/d. That is the highest value across all 14 years on record.
The figure is up 9.4% on the previous year and up 43.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweets and sugars — energy supply — value in Cameroon peaked at 175 kcal/cap/d in 2023 and was at its lowest, 91 kcal/cap/d, in 2016.
That places Cameroon 136th out of 163 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 14 years of available data.
Sweets and sugars — Energy supply — Value in Cameroon, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 142 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 119 kcal/cap/d | -16.2% |
| 2012 | 133 kcal/cap/d | +11.8% |
| 2013 | 122 kcal/cap/d | -8.3% |
| 2014 | 116 kcal/cap/d | -4.9% |
| 2015 | 108 kcal/cap/d | -6.9% |
| 2016 | 91 kcal/cap/d | -15.7% |
| 2017 | 108 kcal/cap/d | +18.7% |
| 2018 | 120 kcal/cap/d | +11.1% |
| 2019 | 117 kcal/cap/d | -2.5% |
| 2020 | 132 kcal/cap/d | +12.8% |
| 2021 | 106 kcal/cap/d | -19.7% |
| 2022 | 160 kcal/cap/d | +50.9% |
| 2023 | 175 kcal/cap/d | +9.4% |
Cameroon compared with similar countries
- Cameroon's 175 kcal/cap/d is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 206 kcal/cap/d, 85% of the median. (38 countries reporting)
- Cameroon's 175 kcal/cap/d is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 160 kcal/cap/d, 1.1× the median. (33 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 117.6 kcal/cap/d | 91 kcal/cap/d | 142 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 143.25 kcal/cap/d | 106 kcal/cap/d | 175 kcal/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Cameroon
More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.9031 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1685 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 332.28 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4433 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweets and sugars — energy supply — value in Cameroon?
- Sweets and sugars — energy supply — value in Cameroon was 175 kcal/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweets and sugars — energy supply — value recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 175 kcal/cap/d in 2023.
- What is the lowest sweets and sugars — energy supply — value recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 91 kcal/cap/d in 2016.
- How does Cameroon rank for sweets and sugars — energy supply — value?
- Cameroon ranks 136th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is sweets and sugars — energy supply — value rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 43.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sweets and sugars — Energy supply — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The dataset presents average daily per capita macro and micro nutrient availability by country and by FAO/WHO GIFT food groups (that are different from those used for the Food Balance Sheets), expressed in grams/milligrams/micrograms/kcal per capita per day. The population numbers used to calculate these statistics can be found in the Supply Utilization Accounts (SUA) dataset of FAOSTAT, as Total Population. Food availability quantities are derived from the SUA dataset. SUAs present a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply and utilization during a specified reference period. The SUA shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per capita supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it.