FAO crop & livestock production volumes (1990-2024)

No commercial useFreshLicense: CC-BY-4.0

Downloads are disabled for this dataset: its license prohibits commercial use. The documentation, schema and sample rows stay available here.

Crop and livestock production volumes from FAO's FAOSTAT Production domain (QCL): one row per (country, commodity, year), 1990-2024, ~210 countries and territories x ~259 commodities, with production in tonnes, the country's share of the FAO-published world total, the within-year world rank, the trailing 10-year change, the FAO observation flag and a deterministic row hash. Who joins this: food-security models join production volumes on (area, item, year) to price and trade panels to split supply shocks from demand shocks; agri desks read the world share and rank to size a country's weight in a commodity market (Brazil's sugar-cane share, Ukraine's wheat rank); development analysts use the 10-year change as the physical counterpart to yield and value-per-worker panels.

Source: FAOSTAT Production Intelligence
Rows: 570,368
Columns: 12
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Oct 10, 2026
Theme: agriculture

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 commodity. Derived FAO aggregate items (CPC F-prefix, e.g. 'Cereals; primary') are excluded. (unit: string)
item	string	FAOSTAT commodity name. (unit: string)
year	integer	Reference year (1990-2024). (unit: year)
production_tonnes	float	Production quantity in tonnes (FAO element 5510). Null only where FAO publishes no tonnes cell for the (area, item, year). (unit: t)
world_share_pct	float	Country's share of the FAO-published world total production tonnage for the commodity 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 tonnage for the commodity across all published areas (1 = largest producer). (unit: rank)
pct_change_10y	float	Percent change in production tonnage vs the same country and commodity exactly 10 years earlier (null in the first 10 years and across publication gaps). (unit: percent)
fao_flag	string	FAO observation flag for the tonnes cell (A = official figure, E = estimated value, I = imputed, M = missing, 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	production_tonnes	world_share_pct	production_rank	pct_change_10y	fao_flag	row_hash
1	051	Armenia	1017	Meat of goat, fresh or chilled	1,992	90	0.003	136	—	E	bd8ab9c9c42ba2a2
1	051	Armenia	1017	Meat of goat, fresh or chilled	1,993	48	0.002	146	—	E	d530d972a56737f6
1	051	Armenia	1017	Meat of goat, fresh or chilled	1,994	39.31	0.001	150	—	I	e4cd434927ae7de3
1	051	Armenia	1017	Meat of goat, fresh or chilled	1,995	35.8	0.001	151	—	I	7f40f64a35fb0342
1	051	Armenia	1017	Meat of goat, fresh or chilled	1,996	38.31	0.001	150	—	I	e94f61ac9ab0507e
1	051	Armenia	1017	Meat of goat, fresh or chilled	1,997	48.07	0.001	147	—	I	35fafe5afe757c07
1	051	Armenia	1017	Meat of goat, fresh or chilled	1,998	49.02	0.001	147	—	I	e03e5b07a6d7b1f0
1	051	Armenia	1017	Meat of goat, fresh or chilled	1,999	86.42	0.002	138	—	I	a61370bb3247b0ec
1	051	Armenia	1017	Meat of goat, fresh or chilled	2,000	90.48	0.002	138	—	I	061a774a90c58db1
1	051	Armenia	1017	Meat of goat, fresh or chilled	2,001	92.53	0.002	139	—	I	bc1a4d9e9829b074

Profiled Oct 10, 2026 from snapshot 20261010T103108Z-875a18b7945f

Measured

Completeness: 97.2%
Rows: 570,368
Columns: 12
Columns with gaps: 1

Rows per yearyear · 1990–2024 · 35 years

19902024

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
area_codevarchar	0%	203	—	3516,947 416,577 1385,793
area_code_m49varchar	0%	202	—	1596,947 1566,577 4845,793
areavarchar	0%	206	—	China6,947 China, mainland6,577 Mexico5,793
item_codevarchar	0%	240	—	10586,788 8676,692 10626,671
itemvarchar	0%	217	—	Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled6,788 Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled6,692 Hen eggs in shell, fresh6,671
yearbigint	0%	35	1,990 → 2,024median 2,007
production_tonnesdouble	0%	248,489	0 → 782,058,236median 9,581	5,704 outside 1st–99th percentile
world_share_pctdouble	0%	545,644	0 → 100median 0.1053	5,704 outside 1st–99th percentile
production_rankbigint	0%	220	1 → 198median 41	5,267 outside 1st–99th percentile
pct_change_10ydouble	33.2%	319,728	-100 → 5,847,726median 11.79	7,626 outside 1st–99th percentile
fao_flagvarchar	0%	4	—	A261,371 I185,473 E88,107
row_hashvarchar	0%	660,801	—	000071abd347888f1 00008985fbdae7bd1 0000c3474a3bdfdb1

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_production_intel/crop_livestock_production_annual" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/faostat_production_intel/crop_livestock_production_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_production_intel/crop_livestock_production_annual

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

Cite this snapshot

Pinned to snapshot 20261010T103108Z-875a18b7945f and its content hash, so readers get exactly the data you used.

APA

FAOSTAT Production Intelligence. (2026). FAO crop & livestock production volumes (1990-2024) [Data set, snapshot 20261010T103108Z-875a18b7945f, sha256 875a18b7945f]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-10, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/faostat_production_intel/crop_livestock_production_annual?snapshot=20261010T103108Z-875a18b7945f

BibTeX

@misc{dz_faostat_production_intel_crop_livestock__875a18b7,
  title        = {{FAO crop \& livestock production volumes (1990-2024)}},
  author       = {{FAOSTAT Production Intelligence}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/faostat_production_intel/crop_livestock_production_annual?snapshot=20261010T103108Z-875a18b7945f}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261010T103108Z-875a18b7945f, sha256 875a18b7945fde9e9b62b2e6caedaa26568155f79805aaab88b49e200a77e3db; accessed 2026-10-10}
}

Embed a table or a chart

Paste this into any page. The embed is pinned to the same snapshot, follows the reader's light or dark setting, and always shows the source, license and a link back.

Type

X axis

Value

Aggregate

Theme

HTML

<iframe src="https://datazimuts.com/embed/chart?dataset=faostat_production_intel%2Fcrop_livestock_production_annual&lang=en&theme=auto&snapshot=20261010T103108Z-875a18b7945f&x=year&y=year&agg=avg" title="FAO crop & livestock production volumes (1990-2024)" width="100%" height="380" style="border:0" loading="lazy"></iframe>