faostat

The FAOSTAT bulk downloads of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): 66 domain zips, as the bulk-download catalogue listed them on 2026-10-04 (production, trade, food balances, prices, land use, inputs, emissions, forestry, population and employment, investment, food security, SDG indicators and others). Each zip holds the domain's data as a long ("Normalized") CSV for all areas, plus its code lists (areas, items, elements, flags). The zips are exactly as FAO serves them; this dataset is a mirror, not a reformatting.

Source: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/; catalogue https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/datasets_E.json (Last-Modified Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:16:55 GMT).

The data follows upstream corrections

FAO overwrites the catalogue and the zips in place under the same names. This dataset therefore holds one run, the newest, and is replaced as a whole when it is fetched again; older runs are not kept here. The current run is raw/2026-10-04/; MANIFEST.json gives for each file its URL, size, sha256, Last-Modified, fetch time and the catalogue's own entry (domain code, name, DateUpdate, row count).

Layout

raw/2026-10-04/MANIFEST.json
raw/2026-10-04/datasets_E.json                    the catalogue, as received
raw/2026-10-04/<Domain>_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip   66 files, 1.52 GB

The CSVs in each zip are as FAO writes them. Most are valid UTF-8; some are not (8 data files and 7 code lists on 2026-10-04), so open them with an explicit legacy encoding such as Latin-1 when UTF-8 fails. Columns are, for most domains, Area Code, Area Code (M49), Area, Item Code, Item, Element Code, Element, Year Code, Year, Unit, Value, Flag, Note.

Left out: domains that may not be under CC BY

FAO's licensing policy (https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cd7464en) puts its statistical databases under CC BY 4.0 from 30 November 2019 on, and says databases published before that date are not under a Creative Commons licence unless marked so. Three discontinued series have a catalogue DateUpdate before that date, and nothing in the catalogue marks them. They are not published here (MANIFEST.json still lists them, with the reason):

• Food_Aid_Shipments_WFP_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip (FA, Discontinued archives and data series: Food Aid Shipments (WFP); last update 2016-12-22, 31,114 rows)
• Indicators_from_Household_Surveys_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip (HS, Discontinued archives and data series: Indicators from Household Surveys (gender, area, socioeconomics); last update 2014-07-31, 148,620 rows)
• PricesArchive_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip (PA, Discontinued archives and data series: Producer Prices (old series); last update 1991-12-31, 139,713 rows)

Licence

FAO statistical databases are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en), complemented by the FAO Statistical Database Terms of Use (https://www.fao.org/contact-us/terms/db-terms-of-use/en/), which add terms of their own: no use in promoting a commercial enterprise or suggesting FAO endorsement, data of third parties may carry other conditions, and disputes go to UNCITRAL arbitration. Required citation format:

FAO. [year of last update]. [Name of database: Name of dataset]. [Accessed on DD Month YYYY]. [URL] Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Collection code: https://github.com/yuiseki/faostat (MIT).