Article What is the reason of big variation of input current vs. input voltage graph in the MAX8815A datasheet?

The datasheet graphs on page 6  INPUT CURRENT vs INPUT VOLTAGE are for two Vouts 3.3V and 5V respectively. We can notice that input current increases when the input voltage is very near to output voltage. This corresponds to a very low duty cycle and we know that for a Boost converter the average input current is equal to


Iin = Iout/(1 - D)

Thus for very low duty cycle  the 1 - D term will be very close to 1, so  Iin will be approximatively equal to Iout.