name: FAO FAOSTAT
description: >
  The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations operates FAOSTAT,
  the world's largest freely accessible database for food and agriculture statistics.
  FAOSTAT provides REST APIs for programmatic access to agricultural production data,
  food security indicators, trade flows, land use, environmental indicators, food
  balances, and prices covering 180+ countries from 1961 to present across 70+
  thematic domains.
image: https://www.fao.org/favicon.ico
tags:
  - agriculture
  - food security
  - statistics
  - trade
  - land use
  - environment
  - UN
  - open data
url: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/
created: "2026-06-13"
modified: "2026-06-13"
specificationVersion: "0.19"
apis:
  - name: FAOSTAT Data API
    description: >
      REST API providing programmatic access to FAOSTAT's 70+ agricultural and food
      statistics domains. Supports filtering by area, item, element, and year.
      Returns JSON and CSV. No authentication required for public data access.
    image: https://www.fao.org/favicon.ico
    humanURL: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
    baseURL: https://fenixservices.fao.org/faostat/api/v1
    tags:
      - agriculture
      - food security
      - statistics
      - trade
      - land use
      - environment
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://fenixservices.fao.org/faostat/api/v1
      - type: Plans
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unfao/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
      - type: RateLimits
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unfao/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
      - type: FinOps
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unfao/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
    contact:
      - FN: FAOSTAT Support
        email: faostat@fao.org
        X-twitter: FAOstatistics
    x-apis-io-score: 50
  - name: FAOSTAT Bulk Download API
    description: >
      API for bulk downloading complete datasets for any FAOSTAT domain as zipped
      CSV files. The catalog endpoint lists all available datasets with download
      URLs and last-updated dates.
    image: https://www.fao.org/favicon.ico
    humanURL: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data
    baseURL: https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production
    tags:
      - bulk download
      - datasets
      - agriculture
      - food statistics
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data
      - type: Plans
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unfao/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
      - type: RateLimits
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unfao/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
    contact:
      - FN: FAOSTAT Support
        email: faostat@fao.org
    x-apis-io-score: 45
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    X-twitter: kinlane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com