Morocco Cephalopods Food supply (kcal/capita/day)

Morocco Cephalopods Food supply (kcal/capita/day): Key Points

• By 2023, Morocco's cephalopods Food supply came to 0.9900 kcal/cap/d, against 0.3700 kcal/cap/d in 2014 — around 168% up across the period.
• 2016: collapses to 0.1400 kcal/cap/d (-56%).
• 2018: leaps to 0.5100 kcal/cap/d (+143%).
• 2019: spikes to 0.8200 kcal/cap/d (+61%).
• 2021: shoots up to 1.01 kcal/cap/d (+58%).
• 2023: Final reading, 0.9900 kcal/cap/d. That's 167.6% up on 2014.

Making Sense Of The Swings

This is not a clean trend line, so resist the urge to draw one. Morocco's number moves both directions across the period — treat any single year as a snapshot, not a forecast.

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.

The single most useful thing to do with this chart is compare Morocco against its neighbors or peers on the same cephalopods Food supply series, not read the line in isolation — a number only means something relative to where everyone else stands.

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.

Small absolute numbers like these amplify percentage swings — the same-sized change in tonnes looks dramatic as a percentage here in a way it wouldn't for a bigger commodity. Read the raw numbers, not just the percent.