Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAOSTAT (bulk download service)
Approved with attributionFAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: [Domain name]. Accessed on [DD Month YYYY]. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Data used with attribution and not for or in conjunction with the promotion of a commercial enterprise, product or service.
Metrics fed
8
Observations stored
62,914
Last successful ingestion
2026-10-19 00:15 UTC
Expected cadence
annual, domain dependent (each domain carries its own DateUpdate)
stale after 400 days
Source record
Dataset and terms
- Organization
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Dataset
- FAOSTAT (bulk download service)
- Homepage
- https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/
- Documentation
- https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data
- License status
- Approved with attribution
- Attribution
- FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: [Domain name]. Accessed on [DD Month YYYY]. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Data used with attribution and not for or in conjunction with the promotion of a commercial enterprise, product or service.
- Geographic coverage
- world, FAO regions (not stored), countries mapped to ISO3 through UN M49 codes
- Temporal coverage
- 1961 to present, domain dependent (food security from 2000)
- Update cadence
- annual, domain dependent (each domain carries its own DateUpdate)
- Revision policy
- FAOSTAT revises history in place with each domain release. Humanity Vector keeps every ingested value; the domain DateUpdate is stored as source_revision.
- Authentication
- No key. The FAOSTAT API Developer Portal (April 2026) requires a signed-in key and the interactive API answers 'Missing Authorization Header' without one; the bulk download service is keyless.
- Rate limits
- Not published. One zip per domain per run (2 to 34 MB), cached in process, downloads spaced 2 seconds apart.
- Record updated
- 2026-10-19 00:15 UTC
Fed by this source
Metrics
- Agricultural land areaFood & WaterObserved
- Cereal productionFood & WaterObserved
- Dietary energy supply per personFood & WaterObserved
- Food production indexFood & WaterObserved
- Land equipped for irrigationFood & WaterObserved
- Nitrogen fertilizer use in agricultureFood & WaterObserved
- Prevalence of undernourishmentFood & WaterObserved
- Prevalence of undernourishment, three-year averageFood & WaterObserved
Ingestion log
Recent ingestion runs
| Started (UTC) | Status | Duration | Rows seen | Written | Parser | Error summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 00:15 UTC | success | 20.0 s | 65016 | 0 | faostat-bulk/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-10-12 00:05 UTC | success | 19.9 s | 65016 | 0 | faostat-bulk/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-10-05 00:04 UTC | success | 17.1 s | 65016 | 12 | faostat-bulk/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-28 00:05 UTC | success | 20.0 s | 65016 | 0 | faostat-bulk/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-21 00:05 UTC | success | 20.6 s | 65016 | 0 | faostat-bulk/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-14 00:06 UTC | success | 13.6 s | 65016 | 0 | faostat-bulk/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-07 22:04 UTC | success | 13.8 s | 65016 | 0 | faostat-bulk/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-07 20:15 UTC | success | 12.4 s | 65016 | 0 | faostat-bulk/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC | success | 13.5 s | 65016 | 62902 | faostat-bulk/1.0.0 | none |