FAOSTAT farmgate producer prices (USD/tonne, 1991-)

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Value-added panel of the UN FAO's FAOSTAT Producer Prices domain (keyless official bulk download, CC BY 4.0; commercial reuse restricted per FAO terms): annual farmgate producer prices in USD/tonne for 212 crop and livestock products across 177 areas, 1991-2024, with year-on-year and 5-year price changes per (area, product) and each observation's price relative to the global median for that product-year. Joins on area_code with the catalog's other FAOSTAT panels.

Source: FAOSTAT Producer Prices Intelligence
Rows: 167,589
Columns: 13
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Oct 9, 2026
Theme: agriculture

Column	Type	Description
area_code	integer	FAO area code (bulk file field 'Area Code').
area_code_m49	string	UN M49 area code (bulk file field 'Area Code (M49)', leading apostrophe stripped).
area	string	Area name as published by FAO.
item_code	integer	FAO item code (bulk file field 'Item Code').
item	string	Product name as published by FAO (212 crop and livestock products; CPC F-prefixed aggregates excluded).
year	integer	Reference year (1991-2024).
price_usd_per_tonne	float	Annual farmgate producer price (FAOSTAT element 5532 'Producer Price (USD/tonne)'): prices received by farmers at the point of initial sale. Never null, negative or zero upstream. (unit: USD/tonne)
price_flag	string	FAO observation flag, verbatim (A official figure; X figure from an external organization; B time-series break; I value imputed by a receiving agency).
price_flag_description	string	Verbatim FAO description of price_flag.
price_change_1y_pct	float	Year-on-year percent change of the farmgate price per (area, product); null when the prior year is unpublished. (unit: %)
price_change_5y_pct	float	Trailing 5-year percent change of the farmgate price per (area, product); null when the base year is unpublished. (unit: %)
price_vs_global_median	float	Farmgate premium/discount gauge = price_usd_per_tonne / global median price for the same product-year (connector-derived, informational). (unit: ratio)
row_hash	string	Deterministic 12-hex row identity hash (area_code\|item_code\|year).

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

area_code	area_code_m49	area	item_code	item	year	price_usd_per_tonne	price_flag	price_flag_description	price_change_1y_pct	price_change_5y_pct	price_vs_global_median	row_hash
1	051	Armenia	15	Wheat	1,997	225.3	A	Official figure	—	—	1.266	6bb183bd1150
1	051	Armenia	15	Wheat	1,998	205.6	A	Official figure	-8.744	—	1.335	b74af807eb36
1	051	Armenia	15	Wheat	1,999	177.5	A	Official figure	-13.667	—	1.142	9820f0c3f488
1	051	Armenia	15	Wheat	2,000	163.5	A	Official figure	-7.887	—	1.222	5571b7c5b176
1	051	Armenia	15	Wheat	2,001	166	A	Official figure	1.529	—	1.271	4835f142a4da
1	051	Armenia	15	Wheat	2,002	138.6	A	Official figure	-16.506	-38.482	1.065	8715dbd18167
1	051	Armenia	15	Wheat	2,003	184.8	A	Official figure	33.333	-10.117	1.167	8d122b25f203
1	051	Armenia	15	Wheat	2,004	208.4	A	Official figure	12.771	17.408	1.246	4f55b7a43b00
1	051	Armenia	15	Wheat	2,005	179.1	A	Official figure	-14.06	9.541	1.091	4e4214f39714
1	051	Armenia	15	Wheat	2,006	212.3	A	Official figure	18.537	27.892	1.283	3c6ba9fff22b

Profiled Oct 9, 2026 from snapshot 20261009T101823Z-35690b86fd10

Measured

Completeness: 97.3%
Rows: 167,589
Columns: 13
Columns with gaps: 2

Rows per yearyear · 1991–2024 · 34 years

19912024

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
area_codebigint	0%	200	1 → 299median 121	2,670 outside 1st–99th percentile
area_code_m49varchar	0%	161	—	4843,852 7243,316 7923,039
areavarchar	0%	192	—	Mexico3,852 Spain3,316 Türkiye3,039
item_codebigint	0%	196	15 → 1,185median 430	394 outside 1st–99th percentile
itemvarchar	0%	198	—	Tomatoes3,500 Potatoes3,334 Maize (corn)3,314
yearbigint	0%	35	1,991 → 2,024median 2,008
price_usd_per_tonnedouble	0%	47,320	5.5 → 204,500median 625	3,339 outside 1st–99th percentile
price_flagvarchar	0%	4	—	A165,942 X1,539 B60
price_flag_descriptionvarchar	0%	4	—	Official figure165,942 Figure from external organization1,539 Time series break60
price_change_1y_pctdouble	7.5%	136,117	-99.43 → 15,857median 1.76	3,102 outside 1st–99th percentile
price_change_5y_pctdouble	28%	98,793	-99.65 → 40,800median 11.27	2,416 outside 1st–99th percentile
price_vs_global_mediandouble	0%	144,074	0.0104 → 306.39median 1	3,352 outside 1st–99th percentile
row_hashvarchar	0%	183,802	—	0000463682cf1 0000a4bd55331 0000dcb5eb2d1

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_producer_prices_intel/producer_price_usd_tonne_annual" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

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import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/faostat_producer_prices_intel/producer_price_usd_tonne_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_producer_prices_intel/producer_price_usd_tonne_annual

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

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FAOSTAT Producer Prices Intelligence. (2026). FAOSTAT farmgate producer prices (USD/tonne, 1991-) [Data set, snapshot 20261009T101823Z-35690b86fd10, sha256 35690b86fd10]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-09, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/faostat_producer_prices_intel/producer_price_usd_tonne_annual?snapshot=20261009T101823Z-35690b86fd10

BibTeX

@misc{dz_faostat_producer_prices_intel_producer_p_35690b86,
  title        = {{FAOSTAT farmgate producer prices (USD/tonne, 1991-)}},
  author       = {{FAOSTAT Producer Prices Intelligence}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/faostat_producer_prices_intel/producer_price_usd_tonne_annual?snapshot=20261009T101823Z-35690b86fd10}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261009T101823Z-35690b86fd10, sha256 35690b86fd10f12a3679355f06dc513513229d49dbf3f713718943dd433a6e83; accessed 2026-10-09}
}

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