Food import dependency
88.6%Food-calorie-weighted import dependency profile, bounded for scoring. Not a traced share of imported calories eaten.
Trinidad and Tobago
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 20230.3870–1 · higher is more vulnerable
World rank#48Of 178 countries · rank 1 is most vulnerable
Food-basket import dependency88.6%Calorie-weighted dependency profile
A decade in context
Trinidad and Tobago
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 | Trinidad and Tobago |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.3780.378–0.378 |
| 2015 | 0.3980.398–0.398 |
| 2016 | 0.3880.388–0.388 |
| 2017 | 0.3870.387–0.387 |
| 2018 | 0.3820.382–0.382 |
| 2019 | 0.4000.400–0.400 |
| 2020 | 0.3910.391–0.391 |
| 2021 | 0.3980.398–0.398 |
| 2022 | 0.4100.410–0.410 |
| 2023 | 0.3870.387–0.387 |
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
97.2%Import dependency of the feed basket, weighted by reported feed tonnes.
Food import burden
10.0%Food imports as a percentage of merchandise exports. Source observations are three-year averages; 100% is the scoring saturation threshold.
Supplier concentration
2,203Concentration of import suppliers, aggregated across commodity groups. 10,000 means a single supplier within a group.
Production concentration
1,526Concentration of domestic production by tonnes. Heavy products can dominate this provisional measure.
Climate exposure
0.566Normalized cereal-yield and population projections. This projection-based component is largely constant over the study window, not annual weather.
Adaptive capacity
0.340ND-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
- 94.7% Can exceed 100% for processing or re-export hubs.
- Net import dependency
- 84.3% Imports minus exports, relative to domestic supply; negative for net exporters.
- Self-sufficiency ratio
- 15.7% Basket-weighted domestic production relative to supply.
- Calorie coverage
- 99.1% Share of basket calories with usable dependency ratios; standalone IDR ranking requires at least 80%.