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Dietary energy supply per person

Observed

Food available for human consumption, in kilocalories per person per day, as used in FAO's undernourishment estimates.

Ingestedfrom Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsfreshJSON export
Current value, United States
3,947kcal per person per day
period 2023
Geography
United States (USA)
Observation date
2023
Unit
kcal per person per day
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1-year change+10contextual+0.25%2022 to 2023from 3,937 to 3,947 kcal per person per day
10-year trend+0.53% per yearcontextual+5.39%2013 to 2023compound annual growth rate; total +202 kcal per person per day, from 3,745 to 3,947 kcal per person per day
Historical series

Dietary energy supply per person, United States

Observed
3,6003,7003,8003,9004,000200120052010201520202023KCAL PER PERSON PER DAY3,947
23 observations, 2001 to 2023latest point emphasised
Data table (23 rows)
Dietary energy supply per person, United States: 23 observations from 2001 to 2023, values from 3,677 to 3,947 kcal per person per day. Latest 3,947 kcal per person per day in 2023. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (kcal per person per day)Source revisionIngested at
20233,9472026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20223,9372026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20213,8752026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20203,8472026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20193,8202026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20183,7902026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20173,7632026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20163,7542026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20153,7372026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20143,7292026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20133,7452026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20123,7592026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20113,7242026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20103,7312026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20093,6772026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20083,7302026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20073,7862026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20063,8102026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20053,8542026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20043,8352026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20033,8012026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20023,8052026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20013,7292026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
160 geographies have observations for this metric
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service), series FS:220001:6128
Definition

What this measures

Dietary energy supply is the food available for human consumption, expressed in kilocalories per person per day, derived from FAO food balance sheets and used in the estimation of the prevalence of undernourishment. It measures supply, not intake: it includes food wasted at the retail and household level. FAOSTAT domain FS, item Dietary energy supply used in the estimation of the prevalence of undernourishment (kcal/cap/day) (220001), element Value (6128), unit kcal/cap/d. Annual from 2000.

Direction
contextual, not scored
Geography level
country
Slug
dietary-energy-supply
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service)
Series ID
FS:220001:6128last fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: [Domain name]. Accessed on [DD Month YYYY]. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Data used with attribution and not for or in conjunction with the promotion of a commercial enterprise, product or service.
Terms of use
Last source update
2026-07-21(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-10-19 00:15 UTC
Parser version
faostat-bulk/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
FAOSTAT revises history in place; each revision is stored as a new row labelled with the domain's DateUpdate. Aggregates other than World and former countries (USSR, Sudan (former), ...) are not stored.
Ingestion rejects values outside 500 to 6,000 kcal per person per day.
23 periods with values for this geography, 2001 to 2023.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2023) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (kcal per person per day)Ingested atStatus
2026-07-213,9472026-09-07 20:00 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.