Dataset · FAO

Cereal Import Dependency Ratio

22 years, 2001–2022 · 161 countries

This is how much of a country's cereal supply is imported rather than grown at home. Cereals are most of the world's calories, so it is one of the clearest measures of how exposed a country is to a disruption in world food trade.

This site holds every year from 2001 to 2022, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Cereal Import Dependency Ratio · the file

Newest: Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2022
Held: 22 years · 3,505 rows
Licence: CC BY 4.0

22years held
2001–2022years
3,505rows across every year
161countries in the newest176 across every year
1measure
CC BY 4.0licence

0122 years

Every year

Every year comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

2001bar height: countries covered, up to 1632022

Every year of Cereal Import Dependency Ratio held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2022Newest	161	+1 −2	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2021	162	+4	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2020	158	+3	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2019	155	+1 −1	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2018	155	−2	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2017	157	+2	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2016	155	−3	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2015	158	+1	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2014	157	−2	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2013	159	−3	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2012	162	±0	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2011	162	+7	September 11, 2026	CSV

Show all 22 years

Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2010	155	±0	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2009	155	−8	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2008	163	±0	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2007	163	±0	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2006	163	+2	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2005	161	±0	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2004	161	±0	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2003	161	±0	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2002	161	±0	September 11, 2026	CSV
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2001	161	—	September 11, 2026	CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: cereal-import-dependency-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

023 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Cereal Import Dependency Ratio: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2022	Distinct
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	161
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	161
Share of the cereal supply that is imported (%)`cereal_import_dependency`Headline	The headline figure: Share of the cereal supply that is imported (%).	Number · up to 1 decimal	-1,894.1Paraguay100.016 share itmiddle 42.8	141

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

03176 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions

Countries in each year of Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, by continent.
	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Africa	42	42	42	40	40	38	39	38	39	39	39	40
Americas	33	33	33	33	33	32	32	32	32	32	32	32
Asia	43	43	41	41	41	41	42	41	40	42	43	43
Europe	38	38	38	38	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39
Oceania	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	9	7
All	162	162	159	157	158	155	157	155	155	158	162	161

The newest 12 of 22 years.

Who joined and who left

2022
+ Guinea-Bissau− Marshall Islands− Tonga
2021
+ Micronesia+ Maldives+ Solomon Islands+ Tonga
2020
+ Bhutan+ Marshall Islands+ Qatar
2019
+ Mauritania− Timor-Leste
2018
− Comoros− North Korea
2017
+ Comoros+ Iraq
2016
− Cuba− Mauritania− São Tomé and Príncipe
2015
+ Iceland

Not in this dataset · 48 places this site covers

FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

1 · Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
fao.org
2 · Their file
Cereal Import Dependency Ratio 2022
Food_Security_Data_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip
3 · Read by this site
September 11, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
4 · Stored as
22 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as cereal-import-dependency-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/cereal-import-dependency

Precision

The headline is stored to 1 decimal, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

FAOSTAT's Suite of Food Security Indicators, read from the FAO's own bulk download.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 11, 2026

CC BY 4.0

Share and redistribute it
Adapt it and build on it
Use it commercially
Credit the publisher
Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, 2001–2022 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/cereal-import-dependency

The publisher’s own citation: FAO. FAOSTAT. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

Charted
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Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
- Food & Agriculture
- Mobility & Trade
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07Questions