Comoros Rice and products Protein supply quantity (g/capita/day)

Comoros Rice and products Protein supply quantity (g/capita/day): Key Points

• The 2023 figure for Comoros' rice and products Protein supply quantity is 13.62 g/cap/d. Back in 2014 it was 15.64 g/cap/d — a fall of about 13% across the years in between.
• 2015: up to 16.35 g/cap/d (+5%).
• 2016-2018: barely budges, 16.34 g/cap/d.
• 2019-2022: slides to 13.01 g/cap/d (-20%).
• 2023: jumps to 13.62 g/cap/d (+5%).
• By 2023, the series lands at 13.62 g/cap/d — 12.9% lower than its 2014 starting point.

What The Ups And Downs Really Mean

Treat this less like a trend and more like a set of individual events. Something different seems to be driving each up or down move rather than one consistent force.

Worth noting this move happens in 2020, the year lockdowns disrupted ordinary activity broadly across the world. It may or may not be the direct explanation here, but it's the most common one for a dip landing in exactly this year.

Use the direction of this line more than any single year's value — rice and products Protein supply quantity figures like this one are most reliable as a trend indicator, less reliable as a precise year-by-year scorecard.

Source here is a national/international statistics body, not a live measurement — most time series like this are interpolated or modeled between actual survey years. Treat the trend as the real signal, individual years as approximate.

Because this crop is replanted every season, the area harvested can swing a lot faster than it would for a tree crop — a good price the year before, or a bad rainy season, shows up almost immediately in the next year's numbers.