Healthy diet unaffordable in Belize
In Belize, 17.8% of people could not afford a healthy diet in 2025.
The latest value carries the source flag “Estimate”.
Belize, 2025
17.8%e (Estimate)
Change from 2024
+0.1percentage points
World, 2025
32.7%e (Estimate)
Position in 2025
86th of 145
Healthy diet unaffordable in Belize over time
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% of the population. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Belize | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17.8%e (Estimated value) | 32.7%e (Estimated value) |
| 2024 | 17.7%e (Estimated value) | 34.3%e (Estimated value) |
| 2023 | 18.4%e (Estimated value) | 35.4%e (Estimated value) |
| 2022 | 16.8%e (Estimated value) | 36.7%e (Estimated value) |
| 2021 | 18.7%e (Estimated value) | 37.4%e (Estimated value) |
| 2020 | 21.6%e (Estimated value) | 39.6%e (Estimated value) |
| 2019 | 17.5%e (Estimated value) | 38.0%e (Estimated value) |
| 2018 | 21.7%e (Estimated value) | 39.0%e (Estimated value) |
| 2017 | 25.7%e (Estimated value) | 41.0%e (Estimated value) |
Flags: e Estimated value . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +0.1 percentage points from 17.7% in 2024.
- Since 2017, when it was 25.7%, the figure has changed by −7.9 percentage points.
- Among the 145 countries with data for 2025, Belize has the 86th highest value.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 32.7%.
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All statistics for Belize
Cost of a healthy diet
Int$4.69e (Estimate) per person per day
2025 · FAOSTAT
Pesticide use
11.00e (Estimate) kg/ha
2024 · FAOSTAT
Nitrogen fertiliser use
69.7e (Estimate) kg/ha
2024 · FAOSTAT
Agriculture share of GDP
7.9%
2024 · World Bank
Cereal yield
3,698 kg per hectare
2024 · World Bank
Agricultural land
8.2%
2024 · World Bank