Food import dependency
3.3%Food-calorie-weighted import dependency profile, bounded for scoring. Not a traced share of imported calories eaten.
Malawi
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 20230.1740–1 · higher is more vulnerable
World rank#172Of 178 countries · rank 1 is most vulnerable
Food-basket import dependency3.3%Calorie-weighted dependency profile
A decade in context
Malawi
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 | Malawi |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.1730.173–0.173 |
| 2015 | 0.1870.187–0.187 |
| 2016 | 0.2060.206–0.206 |
| 2017 | 0.1860.186–0.186 |
| 2018 | 0.1830.183–0.183 |
| 2019 | 0.1820.182–0.182 |
| 2020 | 0.1910.191–0.191 |
| 2021 | 0.1840.184–0.184 |
| 2022 | 0.1750.175–0.175 |
| 2023 | 0.1740.174–0.174 |
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
0.2%Import dependency of the feed basket, weighted by reported feed tonnes.
Food import burden
22.0%Food imports as a percentage of merchandise exports. Source observations are three-year averages; 100% is the scoring saturation threshold.
Supplier concentration
3,604Concentration of import suppliers, aggregated across commodity groups. 10,000 means a single supplier within a group.
Production concentration
1,253Concentration of domestic production by tonnes. Heavy products can dominate this provisional measure.
Climate exposure
0.962Normalized cereal-yield and population projections. This projection-based component is largely constant over the study window, not annual weather.
Adaptive capacity
0.290ND-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
- 3.3% Can exceed 100% for processing or re-export hubs.
- Net import dependency
- 0.5% Imports minus exports, relative to domestic supply; negative for net exporters.
- Self-sufficiency ratio
- 99.5% Basket-weighted domestic production relative to supply.
- Calorie coverage
- 100.0% Share of basket calories with usable dependency ratios; standalone IDR ranking requires at least 80%.