Cost of a healthy diet in Zambia
A healthy diet in Zambia cost Int$4.18 per person per day in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2017.
The latest value carries the source flag “Estimate”.
Cost of a healthy diet in Zambia over time
View
Zambia
The chart loads when you scroll to it. The table below shows the same data.
The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
International dollars (PPP) per person per day. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Zambia |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Int$4.18 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2024 | Int$3.98 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2023 | Int$3.81 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2022 | Int$3.61 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2021 | Int$3.28 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2020 | Int$2.96 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2019 | Int$2.88 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2018 | Int$2.79 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2017 | Int$2.73 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
Flags: e Estimated value . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +5.0% from Int$3.98 per person per day in 2024.
- Since 2017, when it was Int$2.73 per person per day, the figure has changed by +53.1%.
- Among the 164 countries with data for 2025, Zambia has the 113th highest value.
More for Zambia
All statistics for Zambia
Healthy diet unaffordable
86.2%e (Estimate)
2025 · FAOSTAT
Pesticide use
1.09e (Estimate) kg/ha
2024 · FAOSTAT
Nitrogen fertiliser use
53.8e (Estimate) kg/ha
2024 · FAOSTAT
Agriculture share of GDP
4.1%
2025 · World Bank
Cereal yield
2,318 kg per hectare
2024 · World Bank
Agricultural land
32.1%
2024 · World Bank