Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT

FAOSTAT is the statistical database of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, covering food, agriculture, land use, inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides, and agrifood emissions for about 245 countries and territories.

Reuse and attribution

Licence: CC BY 4.0 (FAO statistical database terms)
Attribution used: Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Role: Produces and publishes its own statistics.

How the data is collected

Public bulk downloads (ZIP with normalized CSV), one file shared by every measure that uses it and downloaded at most once a day. No key required. The FAOSTAT query API now asks for an authorization header and is not used.

Annual series are checked about once a week and monthly or quarterly series daily. A check that finds no change does not create a new version. The most recent change was collected on 9 November 2026.

Measures by frequency: Annual 6 .

Measures from FAOSTAT (6)

Measure	Dataset or series	Original producer	Frequency
Temperature change on land compared with 1951 to 1980	ET	FAOSTAT	Annual
Cost of a healthy diet per person per day	CAHD	FAOSTAT	Annual
People unable to afford a healthy diet	CAHD	FAOSTAT	Annual
Pesticide use per hectare of cropland	RP	FAOSTAT	Annual
Nitrogen fertiliser use per hectare of cropland	RFN	FAOSTAT	Annual
Agrifood system greenhouse gas emissions per person	EM	FAOSTAT	Annual