In 2016, food deficit for Lebanon was 29 kcal per person per day. Food deficit of Lebanon increased from 13 kcal per person per day in 1997 to 29 kcal per person per day in 2016 growing at an average annual rate of 4.64%.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.The number of calories needed to lift the undernourished from their status, everything else being constant. The average intensity of food deprivation of the undernourished, estimated as the difference between the average dietary energy requirement and the average dietary energy consumption of the undernourished population (food-deprived), is multiplied by the number of undernourished to provide an estimate of the total food deficit in the country, which is then normalized by the total population.