Overview of AGROVOC statistics: 12 figures to know about AGROVOC

During recent years, AGROVOC has increased in concepts, terms and languages (see Figure 1 and 2) thanks to the collaboration of the AGROVOC editorial community. While in 2017, AGROVOC had 34 700 concepts and 661 000 terms, by July 2021, AGROVOC contained almost 39 180 concepts and 844 000 terms.

In 2021, AGROVOC was available in up to 40 languages, including Arabic, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

In addition to new terms and concepts, in the first six months of 2021 there were almost 37 million accesses to single resources with a monthly average of 6.16 million. 

With regard to multiple resources in the same timeframe, AGROVOC received up to 0.57 million access with a monthly average of 96k.

In the first six months of 2021, 26 least developed countries (LDCs) have requested AGROVOC data. They are: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Haiti, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, South Sudan, Togo, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania and Yemen.

AGROVOC is available as a Linked Open Data (LOD) set and is aligned to 25 vocabularies. 

Our editorial community consists of 33 institutions and expert communities from 22 countries. Learn more about their work at: http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/agrovoc-community-editors

The year 2021 marks the 40^th anniversary of AGROVOC. A series of campaigns and events will be launched. Follow us on Twitter @FAOAIMS #AGROVOC #AGROVOC40