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Cabo Verde

Follow the food-system dependencies and response capacity behind the score. Explore 2014–2023, one year at a time.

Headline snapshot: all seven indicators weighted equally, averaged across 20 filled-in datasets.

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Composite score in 20230.4190–1 · higher is more vulnerable
World rank#37Of 178 countries · rank 1 is most vulnerable
Food-basket import dependency89.2%Calorie-weighted dependency profile

A decade in context

Cabo Verde
0.000.250.500.751.002014201520162017201820192020202120222023Cabo Verde, 2014: 0.387Cabo Verde, 2015: 0.397Cabo Verde, 2016: 0.354Cabo Verde, 2017: 0.425Cabo Verde, 2018: 0.453Cabo Verde, 2019: 0.443Cabo Verde, 2020: 0.459Cabo Verde, 2021: 0.467Cabo Verde, 2022: 0.439Cabo Verde, 2023: 0.419

Higher means more vulnerable. All countries share the same 0–1 scale. Shading shows the range across 20 imputations, not a confidence interval.

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YearCabo Verde
20140.3870.387–0.387
20150.3970.397–0.397
20160.3540.354–0.354
20170.4250.425–0.425
20180.4530.453–0.453
20190.4430.443–0.443
20200.4590.459–0.459
20210.4670.467–0.467
20220.4390.439–0.439
20230.4190.419–0.419

The seven indicators in 2023

Bars use direction-adjusted normalized values: longer always means more vulnerable. Values beside titles retain published units; raw and normalized fields may reflect different imputation stages.

Food import burden

515.0%

Food imports as a percentage of merchandise exports. Source observations are three-year averages; 100% is the scoring saturation threshold.

Production concentration

1,025

Concentration of domestic production by tonnes. Heavy products can dominate this provisional measure.

Climate exposure

0.656

Normalized cereal-yield and population projections. This projection-based component is largely constant over the study window, not annual weather.

Adaptive capacity

0.450

ND-GAIN readiness. Higher is better: stronger capacity to respond to a shock. Darker shading indicates lower readiness.

Behind the import-dependency figure

The score uses bounded dependency values. These additional measures retain the underlying trade picture.

Gross dependency, uncapped
89.2%
Can exceed 100% for processing or re-export hubs.
Net import dependency
89.2%
Imports minus exports, relative to domestic supply; negative for net exporters.
Self-sufficiency ratio
10.8%
Basket-weighted domestic production relative to supply.
Calorie coverage
98.2%
Share of basket calories with usable dependency ratios; standalone IDR ranking requires at least 80%.

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Research context: Raghvendra Singh, TU München, BSc Management & Data Science.

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Suggested citation: Mandawewala, S., Singh, R., and Doan, B. See the full source and citation details ↗

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Source: CEPII, BACI HS12 (V202601). Etalab Open Licence 2.0.

Source: FAO. FAOSTAT (Food Balance Sheets / Food Security), 2026. Licence CC BY 4.0. FAO does not endorse any products or services.

Source: University of Notre Dame, ND-GAIN Country Index, 2026 edition. CC BY 3.0.