CountrySTAT Official Website

CountrySTAT is a statistical framework and applied information system for analysis and policy-making to organise, integrate and disseminate statistical data and metadata on food and agriculture coming from different sources. CountrySTAT gathers and harmonises scattered institutional statstical information so that information tables become compatible with each other at the country level and with data at the international level.

Screenshots from CountrySTAT system The CountrySTAT approach is based on the application of data and metadata standards of FAOSTAT and SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange promoted by IMF, WB, UNSD, EUROSTAT, FAO, OECD, BIS and ECB) and GAUL (Global Administrative Unit Layers). The web-based system has been developed since May 2004 using PX-Web at FAO Headquarters and successfully tested in the statistical offices of Kyrgyz Republic, Kenya and Ghana during 2005. Many other developing and developed countries have shown interest and are adopting it:

CountrySTAT Parnership Network

RegionSTATs for Regional Organizations (2006-2007)

  1. Union Économique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA)
  2. Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD)
  3. Regional Data Exchange System (RDES) on Food and Agriculture Statistics in Asia and Pacific Countries

CountrySTAT in Pilot Countries (2005)

  1. Kyrgyz Republic
  2. Kenya
  3. Ghana

CountrySTAT in Projects (2006-2007)

  1. Burkina Faso
  2. Eritrea
  3. Ethiopia
  4. Haiti
  5. Iraq
  6. Malawi
  7. Mali
  8. Mozambique
  9. Palestine O.T.
  10. Philippines
  11. Senegal
  12. Sudan
  13. Somalia
  14. Tanzania
CountrySTAT content modules

The main expected result is to facilitate decision-maker's access to information and to bind data sources that are currently spread throughout the different institutions. CountrySTAT is accompained by a capacity-building strategy at country level to make the system sustainable in the long-term. CountrySTAT is networking with FAOSTAT and other sister information systems like GIEWS workstation.

CountrySTAT Objectives

Through a core database, policy-makers and researches can easily group data across thematic areas - such as production, trade and consumption - in order to study relationships and processes. The system procides statistical standards, data and metadata exchange methods and tools. The main objective is to build capacity for each country which includes coordination, harmnisation and enhanced value to data.

CountrySTAT Network

FAO Statistics Division's CountrySTAT Programme forms partnerships with national statistical offices and ministries of agriculture to introduce the system and build national capacity to use it. In each country, the national government makes a substantial contribution to deployment, maintenance and training.

CountrySTAT Donor Partners

Currently following agencies and organizations contribute to FAO's efforts in the realisation of CountrySTAT in the world wide projects: EU, Cooperazione Italiana Sviluppo, AOAD, UEMOA.

CountrySTAT Contacts

CountrySTAT
Statistics Division
FAO of The United Nations
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
I-00100 Rome
Tel.: (+39) 06 57051

CountrySTAT Programme Manager
Mr. Kafkas Caprazli
Tel.: (+39) 06 570 54916
Fax: (+39) 06 570 55615
Kafkas.CaprazliAt symbolfao.org

CountrySTAT email: info-CountrySTATAt symbolfao.org

CountrySTAT website: http://www.fao.org/countrystat

CountrySTAT Brochure

CountrySTAT brochures