Food import dependency
70.4%Food-calorie-weighted import dependency profile, bounded for scoring. Not a traced share of imported calories eaten.
Marshall Islands
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.
Composite score in 20230.3260–1 · higher is more vulnerable
World rank#84Of 178 countries · rank 1 is most vulnerable
Food-basket import dependency70.4%Calorie-weighted dependency profile
A decade in context
Marshall Islands
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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| Year | Marshall Islands |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.4150.183–0.599 |
| 2015 | 0.3990.273–0.595 |
| 2016 | 0.3960.248–0.553 |
| 2017 | 0.4330.254–0.589 |
| 2018 | 0.3930.212–0.571 |
| 2019 | 0.3390.291–0.343 |
| 2020 | 0.3350.258–0.339 |
| 2021 | 0.3390.318–0.340 |
| 2022 | 0.3400.274–0.345 |
| 2023 | 0.3260.276–0.333 |
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.
Feed import dependency
0.0%Import dependency of the feed basket, weighted by reported feed tonnes.
Food import burden
498.0%Food imports as a percentage of merchandise exports. Source observations are three-year averages; 100% is the scoring saturation threshold.
Supplier concentration
3,474Concentration of import suppliers, aggregated across commodity groups. 10,000 means a single supplier within a group.
Production concentration
5,079Concentration of domestic production by tonnes. Heavy products can dominate this provisional measure.
Climate exposure
0.604Normalized cereal-yield and population projections. This projection-based component is largely constant over the study window, not annual weather.
Adaptive capacity
0.420ND-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
- 70.4% Can exceed 100% for processing or re-export hubs.
- Net import dependency
- 68.8% Imports minus exports, relative to domestic supply; negative for net exporters.
- Self-sufficiency ratio
- 31.2% Basket-weighted domestic production relative to supply.
- Calorie coverage
- 89.1% Share of basket calories with usable dependency ratios; standalone IDR ranking requires at least 80%.