Item: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) Description: In a specified age/sex category, MDER is the minimum amount of dietary energy per person that is considered adequate to meet the energy needs at a minimum acceptable BMI of an individual engaged in low physical activity. If referring to an entire population, the MDER is the weighted average of the minimum energy requirements of the different age/sex groups. It is expressed as kilocalories per person per day.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2023) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Last updated March 14, 2024 Next expected update March 2025 Date range kilocalories per capita per day
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 judgment 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.
