Japan vs Niger: Daily supply of calories per person

Japan
2,670 kilocalories per day
in 2022
Niger
2,654 kilocalories per day
in 2023
Japan rank
140th
Niger rank
143rd

Daily supply of calories per person over time

  • Japan
  • Niger
01.0k2.0k3.0k194719852023

How they compare

Japan currently reports 2,670 kilocalories per day against 2,654 kilocalories per day in Niger, a difference of 16.07 kilocalories per day.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 62 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 140th and Niger ranks 143rd of 191 countries.

Individual pages

About this data

Indicator
Daily supply of calories per person
Unit
kilocalories per day
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
192 places, 10,444 data points, 1274–2023
Last refreshed

Measured in kilocalories per person per day. This indicates the calories that are available for consumption, but does not necessarily measure the number of calories actually consumed, since it doesn't factor in consumer waste.