Highlights archive

 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 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...

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 ...

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

New FAOSTAT data release

This second report - compiled jointly by international organizations, under the aegis of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) – updates some of the global and regional trends presented in the first volume and offers a snapshot of how COVID-19 continues to affect the...

The FAO Yearbook of Forest Products is a compilation of statistical data on basic forest products for all countries and territories of the world.

One million geospatial layers and thousands of statistics for over ten food and agriculture-related domains.

Since the first assessment in 1948, the report has evolved into a comprehensive evaluation of forest resources and their condition, management and uses, covering all the thematic elements of sustainable forest management. One of the key findings in this edition is that while deforestation continu...