Cereal import dependency ratio (percent) (3-year average) — Value in Lesotho
Lesotho: Cereal import dependency ratio (percent) (3-year average) — Value was 68.4 % in 2021. ▲ Rising
Cereal import dependency ratio (percent) (3-year average) — Value in Lesotho, 2000–2021
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in %.
Analysis
In 2021, cereal import dependency ratio (percent) (3-year average) — value in Lesotho stood at 68.4 %.
The figure is down 17.4% on the previous year and down 18.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereal import dependency ratio (percent) (3-year average) — value in Lesotho peaked at 100 % in 2018 and was at its lowest, 41.3 %, in 2004.
Lesotho ranks 58th of 172 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 22 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 58.13 % | 41.3 % | 80.8 % | 10 |
| 2010s | 84.15 % | 75.4 % | 100 % | 10 |
| 2020s | 75.6 % | 68.4 % | 82.8 % | 2 |
Countries ranked near Lesotho
More agriculture & rural data for Lesotho
- Agriculture share gdp 6.49 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.49 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 55.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 1.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 166.92 million current US$ (2025)
- Cereal yield vs gdp per capita 0.8041 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cereal import dependency ratio (percent) (3-year average) — value in Lesotho?
- Cereal import dependency ratio (percent) (3-year average) — value in Lesotho was 68.4 % in 2021, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cereal import dependency ratio (percent) (3-year average) — value recorded in Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 100 % in 2018.
- What is the lowest cereal import dependency ratio (percent) (3-year average) — value recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 41.3 % in 2004.
- How does Lesotho rank for cereal import dependency ratio (percent) (3-year average) — value?
- Lesotho ranks 58th out of 172 countries with data for 2021.
- Is cereal import dependency ratio (percent) (3-year average) — value rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is down 18.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Lesotho data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cereal import dependency ratio (percent) (3-year average) — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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The Suite of Food Security Indicators presents the core set of food security indicators. Following the recommendation of experts gathered in the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Round Table on hunger measurement, hosted at FAO headquarters in September 2011, an initial set of indicators aiming to capture various aspects of food insecurity is presented here. The choice of the indicators has been informed by expert judgement and the availability of data with sufficient coverage to enable comparisons across regions and over time. Many of these indicators are produced and published elsewhere by FAO and other international organizations. They are reported here in a single database with the aim of building a wide food security information system. More indicators will be added to this set as more data will become available. Indicators are classified along the four dimensions of food security -- availability, access, utilization and stability.