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In addition to supporting the regular collection of high-quality dietary data following standardized methodologies, the publication also aims to promote dialogues on and appropriate application of the data towards informing policy and programming decisions and monitoring and evaluation of nutriti...

The Statistics Division (ESS), through its newly revamped website, collects and disseminates timely and reliable food and agricultural statistics globally. The Food and Agriculture Statistics website is the most important source of information related to food security and nutrition, crop and live...

These Guidelines offer methodological and practical guidance for the production of direct and indirect disaggregated estimates of SDG indicators having surveys as their main or preferred data source. Furthermore, the publication provides tools to assess the accuracy of these estimates and present...

Global and regional consumer price indices (CPI) measure food inflation for a group of countries at different geographical scales: sub-regional (e.g. Middle Africa), regional (e.g. Africa) and global (all countries). The CPI of all items covers 204 countries, and the food CPI covers 198 countries...

The 18th edition of FAO Statistical Development Series offers both a distinctive panorama of country census practices across the regions of the world and an international view enabling comparison of the structural characteristics of national agricultural sectors. FAO hopes that this exceptional i...

 New French version of the FAO publication "Incorporating environmental flows into “water stress” indicator 6.4.2" now available online!

This year’s report presents new estimates on the pervasiveness of water scarcity in irrigated agriculture and of water shortages in rainfed agriculture. It provides guidance on how countries can prioritize policies and interventions to overcome water constraints in agriculture.

Food Outlook is published by the Markets and Trade Division of FAO as part of the Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS). It is a biannual publication focusing on developments in global food markets.  Food Outlook maintains a close synergy with Crop Prospects and Food Situa...

The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macroeconomic indicators relating to total economy; agriculture, forestry and fishing; manufacturing; and agriculture sub-industry and Manufacturing sub-industry. It releases time series for a selection of National Acc...

FAO Statistical Yearbook is a primary tool for policy makers, researchers and analysts, as well as the general public interested in the past, present and future path of food and agriculture.

The Development Flows to Agriculture (DFA) database is to provide readily available data to enable analysis on aid flows and the purposes they serve, with an emphasis on agriculture, its components, and environmental protection.

The below FAOSTAT analytical brief  analyses the ...

The publication presents comprehensive and detailed fishery and aquaculture statistics, covering production, utilization, consumption, trade, employment and fishing fleet.

The 2020 FAO Survey of Pulp and Paper Capacities presents statistics on pulp and paper production capacity and short-term forecast estimates from main producing countries, data on pulp and paper production, and information about utilization of recovered paper.

The FAO Capital Stock Database reports on aggregate physical investment flows and capital stock in agriculture, forestry, and fishing for 190 countries and territories from 1995 to 2017. The 2020 

The April 2020 FAOSTAT analytical  brief highlights the key information provided in the latest update of the FAO’s datasets on consumer price indices (CPI).Global and regional CPI measure food inflation for a group of countries at different geographical scales. Global CPI covers 193 ...

The FAO indices of agricultural products measure the average annual change over time in the selling prices received by farmers (prices at the farm-gate or at the first point of sale). The source of official country Agriculture Producer Prices is a questionnaire sent annually to the national st...

Agricultural Markets and Sustainable Development: Global value chains, smallholder farmers and digital innovations.

Exchange rates are defined as the price of one country’s currency in relation to another. Exchange rates are expressed as the average rate for a period of time or as the rate at the end of the period. FAOSTAT Exchange rates domain provides updated data on the strongest currencies around the world.

It offers detailed analysis and trends on 22 indicators under 6 SDGs (2, 5, 6, 12, 14 and 15) under its custodianship.

New FAOSTAT data release