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Romania

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.

Compare this country
Composite score in 20230.3130–1 · higher is more vulnerable
World rank#98Of 178 countries · rank 1 is most vulnerable
Food-basket import dependency49.1%Calorie-weighted dependency profile

A decade in context

Romania
0.000.250.500.751.002014201520162017201820192020202120222023Romania, 2014: 0.213Romania, 2015: 0.234Romania, 2016: 0.251Romania, 2017: 0.230Romania, 2018: 0.212Romania, 2019: 0.234Romania, 2020: 0.269Romania, 2021: 0.259Romania, 2022: 0.300Romania, 2023: 0.313

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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YearRomania
20140.2130.213–0.213
20150.2340.234–0.234
20160.2510.251–0.251
20170.2300.230–0.230
20180.2120.212–0.212
20190.2340.234–0.234
20200.2690.269–0.269
20210.2590.259–0.259
20220.3000.300–0.300
20230.3130.313–0.313

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

12.0%

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

Production concentration

1,338

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

Climate exposure

0.665

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

Adaptive capacity

0.440

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
53.7%
Can exceed 100% for processing or re-export hubs.
Net import dependency
-43.5%
Imports minus exports, relative to domestic supply; negative for net exporters.
Self-sufficiency ratio
143.5%
Basket-weighted domestic production relative to supply.
Calorie coverage
99.9%
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.

This is academic context, not university endorsement. The research snapshot is presented separately from Verdantia’s current solo-founder company status.

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.