Table 1.
Main indicators for food security and rice sector in West Africa.
| Country/Region | Food Security |
Rice sector |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Production |
Imports |
Consumption |
Import dependency |
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| Average annual number of people undernourished, 2009–2018 (million) | Average annual growth of the number of undernourished people, 2009–2018 (%) | Average annual rice consumption, 2009–2013 (kg/capita/year) | Average annual growth of rice consumption, 2009–2013 (%) | Average daily energy consumption through rice, 2009–2013 (kilocalories/capita/day) | Average annual production (milled equivalent), 2009–2019 (103 ton) | Average annual growth of production, 2009–2019 (%) | Average annual area, 2009–2019 (103 ha) | Average annual number of rice growers, 2009–2019 | Average annual imports, 2009–2019 (103 ton) | Average annual growth of imports, 2009–2019 (%) | Average annual consumption, 2009–2019 (103 ton) | Average annual growth of consumption, 2009–2019 (%) | Average annual import dependency, 2009–2019 | Average annual growth of import dependency, 2009–2019 (%) | |
| World | 821.6 | −0.4 | 54 | 0.0 | 543 | 478,319 | 1.2 | 160,996 | 39,243 | 4.3 | 467,996 | 1.2 | 0.08 | 4.32 | |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 199.0 | 3.0 | 23 | 1.4 | 232 | 15,402 | 6.8 | 11,514 | 8,053,309 | 12,409 | 7.8 | 27,249 | 6.8 | 0.46 | 1.26 |
| West Africa | 39.1 | 7.1 | 39 | 1.0 | 381 | 10,098 | 10.1 | 7565 | 4,131,103 | 8205 | 7.0 | 17,986 | 8.1 | 0.46 | −1.09 |
| Benin | 1.1 | 0.0 | 55 | −0.7 | 208 | 142 | 13.5 | 67 | 78,063 | 411 | 37.1 | 542 | 22.2 | 0.76 | 1.22 |
| Burkina | 3.5 | 1.7 | 21 | −0.7 | 208 | 204 | 6.2 | 144 | 177,653 | 395 | 15.4 | 590 | 12.4 | 0.67 | 1.40 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | 4.6 | 0.8 | 64 | −0.3 | 578 | 1111 | 19.4 | 731 | 838,962 | 1184 | 7.1 | 2180 | 9.4 | 0.54 | 4.30 |
| Gambia, The | 0.2 | 0.0 | 66 | −1.8 | 649 | 35 | −5.9 | 67 | 32,056 | 168 | 15.8 | 200 | 12.9 | 0.84 | 1.84 |
| Ghana | 1.6 | 2.6 | 32 | 1.8 | 301 | 359 | 9.1 | 220 | 43,985 | 655 | 13.6 | 986 | 10.6 | 0.66 | 2.48 |
| Guinea | 1.9 | 1.2 | 97 | −0.4 | 983 | 1300 | 5.5 | 1342 | 965,658 | 566 | 16.5 | 1752 | 8.3 | 0.32 | 1.08 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 0.4 | 7.4 | 95 | 1.5 | 948 | 108 | −0.3 | 104 | 87,870 | 135 | 4.1 | 241 | 1.9 | 0.56 | −3.89 |
| Liberia | 1.6 | 3.2 | 91 | 1.2 | 914 | 172 | −1.3 | 233 | 182,088 | 293 | 7.4 | 455 | 3.9 | 0.64 | 0.13 |
| Mali | 1.0 | 1.0 | 57 | −0.4 | 567 | 1442 | 16.3 | 730 | 405,228 | 188 | 15.5 | 1627 | 12.9 | 0.12 | −4.01 |
| Mauritania | 0.4 | 7.4 | 43 | 4.0 | 423 | 129 | 42.0 | 42 | 10,934 | 111 | 2.7 | 234 | 11.6 | 0.47 | −1.05 |
| Niger | 2.3 | 9.9 | 12 | 0.4 | 111 | 61 | 3.1 | 19 | 7121 | 295 | 4.2 | 357 | 4.0 | 0.83 | 19.23 |
| Nigeria | 15.7 | 18.8 | 28 | 2.3 | 284 | 3736 | 10.8 | 2967 | 487,573 | 2359 | −0.9 | 6032 | 5.5 | 0.39 | 5.94 |
| Senegal | 1.8 | 0.7 | 71 | 0.9 | 698 | 508 | 18.8 | 198 | 186,631 | 981 | 6.8 | 1527 | 8.9 | 0.64 | −0.59 |
| Sierra Leone | 1.7 | 0.6 | 99 | 2.0 | 929 | 702 | 3.9 | 625 | 559,304 | 295 | 45.5 | 1006 | 8.4 | 0.29 | 0.57 |
| Togo | 1.3 | −0.8 | 23 | 3.7 | 233 | 90 | 1.5 | 75 | 41,063 | 168 | 25.0 | 256 | 11.5 | 0.66 | 2.75 |
Notes: Import dependency is calculated as the share of consumption covered by imports.
Sources: Data on food security retrieved from FAO (2019); data about the rice sector retrieved from USDA (2019), except for the number of rice growers that was calculated by applying the rural populations' growth rates estimated by FAO and AfDB (2015) to the 2009 estimate of Diagne et al. (2013).