Category
Food & Water
Food production, yields, and freshwater availability per person.
- Metrics
- 12
- Headline
- 1
- Last ingestion
- 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC
Headline metrics, each in its default geography
Cereal yield
Kilograms of cereal harvested per hectare of harvested land.
World
Other metrics, each in its default geography
Agricultural land area
Land used for crops and permanent pasture, in thousand hectares, from FAOSTAT land use.
World
Cereal production
Production of primary cereals (wheat, rice, maize, barley, oats, rye, millet, sorghum and others) harvested for dry grain, in tonnes.
World
Corn futures: managed-money net position
Net long or short CBOT corn futures held by managed money, in contracts of 5,000 bushels, weekly.
United States
Dietary energy supply per person
Food available for human consumption, in kilocalories per person per day, as used in FAO's undernourishment estimates.
World
Food production index
Gross production of edible agricultural commodities relative to the 2014-2016 average, from FAOSTAT production indices.
World
Land equipped for irrigation
Area equipped to provide water to crops, in thousand hectares, from FAOSTAT land use.
World
Nitrogen fertilizer use in agriculture
Nitrogen fertilizers applied in agriculture, in tonnes of nutrient nitrogen (N), from FAOSTAT fertilizers by nutrient.
World
Prevalence of undernourishment
Share of the population whose habitual food consumption is insufficient to provide the dietary energy needed for a normal, active life.
World
Share of the population undernourished, averaged over three consecutive years, as FAO publishes it for countries.
World
Renewable freshwater resources per person
Internal renewable freshwater resources (river flows and groundwater from rainfall) divided by population.
World
Wheat futures (SRW): managed-money net position
Net long or short CBOT soft red winter wheat futures held by managed money, in contracts of 5,000 bushels, weekly.
United States