Food consumer price indices (FAOSTAT, monthly)

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Monthly food consumer price indices from FAO's FAOSTAT Prices domain (CP): one row per (country, month), 2000-01 onward, ~200 countries and territories — the food CPI (2015=100), the headline all-items CPI (2015=100) and FAO's published food price inflation (% yoy, identity-gated against the re-derived change), with the food-vs-headline spread, 1-month and 5-year food-inflation changes, the within-month inflation rank, hot-inflation (>=10%) and deflation flags, the FAO observation flag and a deterministic row hash. Keyless official bulk download. Who joins this: procurement teams read food_vs_headline_spread as the food-specific cost pressure on top of headline inflation; macro models use food_inflation_yoy_pct and the within-month rank as the retail food-inflation feature; risk teams watch hot_food_inflation_flag for food-crisis regimes. Pairs with fao_food_price_intel (the global commodity benchmark) and the FAOSTAT production/trade panels.

Source: FAOSTAT Food Consumer Price Intelligence (monthly, keyless)
Rows: 63,496
Columns: 15
Source cadence: Monthly
Last refreshed: Oct 10, 2026
Theme: economy

Column	Type	Description
area_code	string	FAOSTAT numeric area code (countries and territories; regional aggregates such as World are excluded from this panel). (unit: string)
area_code_m49	string	UN M49 code for the area, as published by FAOSTAT. (unit: string)
area	string	FAOSTAT area name. (unit: string)
year_month	string	Observation month as YYYY-MM (the panel join key together with area_code). (unit: string)
food_cpi	float	Consumer Prices, Food Indices (FAO item 23013), index 2015 = 100 — what households pay for food. (unit: index)
headline_cpi	float	Consumer Prices, General Indices (FAO item 23012), index 2015 = 100 — the all-items CPI. (unit: index)
food_inflation_yoy_pct	float	Food price inflation (FAO item 23014), percent change of the food index versus the same month a year earlier — FAO's published value, identity-gated against the re-derived change at ingest. (unit: percent)
food_vs_headline_spread	float	Food CPI minus headline CPI, in index points — the food-specific price pressure on top of general inflation (positive = food outpacing the all-items index). (unit: index_points)
food_inflation_mom_pct	float	Month-over-month percent change of the food CPI (null for each area's first panel month). (unit: percent)
food_inflation_5y_pct	float	5-year percent change of the food CPI (null for each area's first 60 panel months). (unit: percent)
food_inflation_yoy_rank	integer	Dense rank of food_inflation_yoy_pct within the month, 1 = hottest food inflation that month (null where yoy is null). (unit: rank)
hot_food_inflation_flag	integer	1 when food_inflation_yoy_pct >= 10 (food-crisis regime); null where yoy is null. (unit: flag)
food_deflation_flag	integer	1 when food_inflation_yoy_pct < 0 (food prices falling year over year); null where yoy is null. (unit: flag)
fao_flag	string	FAO observation flag for the food CPI cell (A official, E estimated, I imputed, X external organization). (unit: string)
row_hash	string	Deterministic 16-hex sha256 of area_code + year_month + the three level columns (idempotency key). (unit: string)

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

area_code	area_code_m49	area	year_month	food_cpi	headline_cpi	food_inflation_yoy_pct	food_vs_headline_spread	food_inflation_mom_pct	food_inflation_5y_pct	food_inflation_yoy_rank	hot_food_inflation_flag	food_deflation_flag	fao_flag	row_hash
1	'051	Armenia	2000-01	49.965	53.55	—	-3.585	—	—	—	—	—	I	faa0773c38f13267
1	'051	Armenia	2000-02	50.033	53.615	—	-3.582	0.136	—	—	—	—	I	6087da0604dc4133
1	'051	Armenia	2000-03	49.811	53.404	—	-3.593	-0.444	—	—	—	—	I	fce01274b66f443d
1	'051	Armenia	2000-04	49.355	52.97	—	-3.615	-0.916	—	—	—	—	I	26940af367c556f5
1	'051	Armenia	2000-05	49.179	52.802	—	-3.623	-0.356	—	—	—	—	I	78d075a70219a978
1	'051	Armenia	2000-06	49.016	52.647	—	-3.631	-0.331	—	—	—	—	I	83b80066a379a485
1	'051	Armenia	2000-07	47.929	51.61	—	-3.681	-2.218	—	—	—	—	I	d963735116539c80
1	'051	Armenia	2000-08	47.235	50.946	—	-3.712	-1.449	—	—	—	—	I	bb1d39d202ef4e93
1	'051	Armenia	2000-09	47.372	51.078	—	-3.706	0.291	—	—	—	—	I	57bf47d4997db3fc
1	'051	Armenia	2000-10	47.365	51.071	—	-3.706	-0.015	—	—	—	—	I	5ac78de469a349a0

Profiled Oct 11, 2026 from snapshot 20261010T183406Z-0bf615234b98

Measured

Completeness: 97.7%
Rows: 63,496
Columns: 15
Columns with gaps: 6

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
area_codevarchar	0%	202	—	1315 10315 100315
area_code_m49varchar	0%	204	—	'004315 '008315 '012315
areavarchar	0%	209	—	Afghanistan315 Albania315 Algeria315
year_monthvarchar	0%	307	—	2008-01203 2008-02203 2008-03203
food_cpidouble	0%	54,823	0.6687 → 2,890,920,605,339median 95.02	1,270 outside 1st–99th percentile
headline_cpidouble	0%	63,801	0.9129 → 2,097,637,026,034median 96.51	1,270 outside 1st–99th percentile
food_inflation_yoy_pctdouble	3.9%	61,216	-42.26 → 371,538median 4.03	1,222 outside 1st–99th percentile
food_vs_headline_spreaddouble	0%	74,418	-37,902,889,458 → 793,283,579,306median -0.9443	1,270 outside 1st–99th percentile
food_inflation_mom_pctdouble	0.32%	69,791	-88.39 → 1,142median 0.3286	1,266 outside 1st–99th percentile
food_inflation_5y_pctdouble	19.3%	59,580	-46.21 → 75,162,090,421median 24.85	1,026 outside 1st–99th percentile
food_inflation_yoy_rankbigint	3.9%	223	1 → 203median 101	1,054 outside 1st–99th percentile
hot_food_inflation_flagbigint	3.9%	2	0 → 1median 0
food_deflation_flagbigint	3.9%	2	0 → 1median 0
fao_flagvarchar	0%	3	—	X45,061 I11,816 A6,619
row_hashvarchar	0%	77,346	—	0003e599a62badb71 000545d0db0b307b1 00074b6d4bef4edd1

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/faostat_foodcpi_intel/food_cpi_monthly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/faostat_foodcpi_intel/food_cpi_monthly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/faostat_foodcpi_intel/food_cpi_monthly

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.

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FAOSTAT Food Consumer Price Intelligence (monthly, keyless). (2026). Food consumer price indices (FAOSTAT, monthly) [Data set, snapshot 20261010T183406Z-0bf615234b98, sha256 0bf615234b98]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-11, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/faostat_foodcpi_intel/food_cpi_monthly?snapshot=20261010T183406Z-0bf615234b98

BibTeX

@misc{dz_faostat_foodcpi_intel_food_cpi_monthly_0bf61523,
  title        = {{Food consumer price indices (FAOSTAT, monthly)}},
  author       = {{FAOSTAT Food Consumer Price Intelligence (monthly, keyless)}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/faostat_foodcpi_intel/food_cpi_monthly?snapshot=20261010T183406Z-0bf615234b98}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261010T183406Z-0bf615234b98, sha256 0bf615234b98630c7715ecfbb09b33a91896ec5faab637d5b3194af9d7299157; accessed 2026-10-11}
}

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