FAO forestry production & trade panel (1961-2024)

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Forestry production and trade from FAO's FAOSTAT Forestry domain (FO): one row per (country, product, year), 1961-2024, ~240 countries and territories x ~83 forest products, with production, import and export quantities (tonnes for pulp & paper, m3 for solid wood), import/export values in thousand USD, and derived intelligence: net trade, trade balance, apparent consumption (production + imports - exports), the country's share of world production, the within-year world production rank, the trailing 10-year production change, the FAO observation flag and a deterministic row hash. Who joins this: timber-market analysts join apparent consumption on (area, item, year) to price panels to split demand shocks from supply shocks; trade desks read net trade and the trade balance to size exporters (Canadian sawnwood, Brazilian pulp); ESG analysts use production shares and ranks to map deforestation pressure to product markets.

Source: FAOSTAT Forestry Intelligence
Rows: 469,893
Columns: 20
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Oct 10, 2026
Theme: environment

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)
item_code	string	FAOSTAT item code for the forest product. FAO aggregate items (e.g. 'Sawnwood', 'Wood pulp', 'Paper and paperboard') are excluded so the panel never double-counts. (unit: string)
item	string	FAOSTAT forest product name. (unit: string)
year	integer	Reference year (1961-2024). (unit: year)
qty_unit	string	Quantity unit for this product's production, import and export quantities: 't' (tonnes, pulp & paper products) or 'm3' (cubic metres, solid-wood products). A singleton per product upstream. (unit: string)
production_qty	float	Production quantity in qty_unit (FAO elements 5510/5516). Null only where FAO publishes no production cell for the (area, item, year). (unit: qty_unit)
import_qty	float	Import quantity in qty_unit (FAO elements 5610/5616). (unit: qty_unit)
import_value_kusd	float	Import value in thousand USD (FAO element 5622). (unit: 1000 USD)
export_qty	float	Export quantity in qty_unit (FAO elements 5910/5916). Small negatives are genuine upstream artifacts and are kept verbatim. (unit: qty_unit)
export_value_kusd	float	Export value in thousand USD (FAO element 5922). Small negatives are genuine upstream artifacts and are kept verbatim. (unit: 1000 USD)
net_trade_qty	float	Net trade quantity = export_qty - import_qty, in qty_unit (positive = net exporter). (unit: qty_unit)
trade_balance_kusd	float	Trade balance = export_value_kusd - import_value_kusd, in thousand USD (positive = trade surplus). (unit: 1000 USD)
apparent_consumption_qty	float	Apparent consumption = production_qty + import_qty - export_qty, in qty_unit (the standard FAO forestry demand identity; missing trade legs treated as zero when production is published). (unit: qty_unit)
production_world_share_pct	float	Country's share of the FAO-published world total production quantity for the product and year, percent. Kept verbatim — FAO's World aggregate is estimated independently, so shares can marginally exceed 100. (unit: percent)
production_rank	integer	Within-year world rank of production quantity for the product across all published areas (1 = largest producer). (unit: rank)
pct_change_10y	float	Percent change in production quantity vs the same country and product exactly 10 years earlier (null in the first 10 years and across publication gaps). (unit: percent)
fao_flag	string	FAO observation flag for the production cell (A = official figure, E = estimated value, F = forecast, I = imputed, X = external organization). (unit: string)
row_hash	string	Deterministic 16-hex SHA-256 hash over the area, item, year, raw measures and the FAO flag; changes whenever any raw input cell changes. (unit: string)

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

area_code	area_code_m49	area	item_code	item	year	qty_unit	production_qty	import_qty	import_value_kusd	export_qty	export_value_kusd	net_trade_qty	trade_balance_kusd	apparent_consumption_qty	production_world_share_pct	production_rank	pct_change_10y	fao_flag	row_hash
1	051	Armenia	1600	Recovered post-consumer wood	2,018	t	—	386	14	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3f589fb009f96f6a
1	051	Armenia	1600	Recovered post-consumer wood	2,019	t	—	23	65	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1381ee1400e649ea
1	051	Armenia	1600	Recovered post-consumer wood	2,020	t	—	119	124	0	0	-119	-124	—	—	—	—	—	155b632e07731f2a
1	051	Armenia	1600	Recovered post-consumer wood	2,021	t	—	18	102	0	0	-18	-102	—	—	—	—	—	3ebce36fe244ed47
1	051	Armenia	1600	Recovered post-consumer wood	2,022	t	—	16	76	0	0	-16	-76	—	—	—	—	—	afde18e20e0a7318
1	051	Armenia	1600	Recovered post-consumer wood	2,023	t	0	17	102	0	0	-17	-102	17	0	38	—	A	e56dff0b89e12af9
1	051	Armenia	1600	Recovered post-consumer wood	2,024	t	0	14	116	0	0	-14	-116	14	0	38	—	I	31a107ac3c990560
1	051	Armenia	1601	Sawlogs and veneer logs, coniferous	1,998	m3	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	104	—	E	87fabe4bfb4bdf8a
1	051	Armenia	1601	Sawlogs and veneer logs, coniferous	1,999	m3	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	106	—	E	17a0c06648b8aa6a
1	051	Armenia	1601	Sawlogs and veneer logs, coniferous	2,000	m3	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	103	—	E	a92053830c28c54c

Profiled Oct 10, 2026 from snapshot 20261010T122904Z-31dbb1a3c46e

Measured

Completeness: 73.2%
Rows: 469,893
Columns: 20
Columns with gaps: 12

Rows per yearyear · 1961–2024 · 64 years

19612024

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
area_codevarchar	0%	230	—	2103,308 793,303 683,300
area_code_m49varchar	0%	235	—	7523,308 2763,303 2503,300
areavarchar	0%	229	—	Sweden3,308 Germany3,303 France3,300
item_codevarchar	0%	88	—	186312,091 162811,898 163311,799
itemvarchar	0%	84	—	Roundwood, non-coniferous12,091 Wood fuel, non-coniferous11,898 Sawnwood, non-coniferous11,799
yearbigint	0%	63	1,961 → 2,024median 2,006	2,763 outside 1st–99th percentile
qty_unitvarchar	17%	2	—	m3232,179 t157,814
production_qtydouble	47.7%	59,116	0 → 347,331,376median 70,000	2,456 outside 1st–99th percentile
import_qtydouble	40.9%	50,446	0 → 50,159,743median 1,951	2,779 outside 1st–99th percentile
import_value_kusddouble	23.9%	66,944	0 → 43,201,756median 1,113	3,577 outside 1st–99th percentile
export_qtydouble	55.8%	31,598	-12 → 39,836,912median 500	2,081 outside 1st–99th percentile
export_value_kusddouble	39.6%	77,500	-5 → 36,876,110median 223	2,842 outside 1st–99th percentile
net_trade_qtydouble	58.6%	73,573	-50,154,237 → 39,243,385median -600	3,890 outside 1st–99th percentile
trade_balance_kusddouble	42.4%	94,540	-39,163,669 → 34,400,562median -487	5,412 outside 1st–99th percentile
apparent_consumption_qtydouble	47.7%	111,958	-9,433,053 → 347,331,376median 85,000	4,911 outside 1st–99th percentile
production_world_share_pctdouble	47.7%	158,458	0 → 100median 0.072	2,456 outside 1st–99th percentile
production_rankbigint	47.7%	223	1 → 202median 47	2,295 outside 1st–99th percentile
pct_change_10ydouble	66.9%	79,982	-100 → 879,900median 8	1,555 outside 1st–99th percentile
fao_flagvarchar	0%	6	—	224,357 E121,986 A82,061
row_hashvarchar	0%	419,053	—	000003cab64861a21 00000f35b834a68a1 00008c4f61bd6b731

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

cURL

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

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/faostat_forestry_intel/forestry_production_trade_annual").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_forestry_intel/forestry_production_trade_annual

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

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FAOSTAT Forestry Intelligence. (2026). FAO forestry production & trade panel (1961-2024) [Data set, snapshot 20261010T122904Z-31dbb1a3c46e, sha256 31dbb1a3c46e]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-10, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/faostat_forestry_intel/forestry_production_trade_annual?snapshot=20261010T122904Z-31dbb1a3c46e

BibTeX

@misc{dz_faostat_forestry_intel_forestry_producti_31dbb1a3,
  title        = {{FAO forestry production \& trade panel (1961-2024)}},
  author       = {{FAOSTAT Forestry Intelligence}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/faostat_forestry_intel/forestry_production_trade_annual?snapshot=20261010T122904Z-31dbb1a3c46e}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261010T122904Z-31dbb1a3c46e, sha256 31dbb1a3c46e1ae658a346753b4775b2139a4faeb651161f42359d19b5720079; accessed 2026-10-10}
}

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