FAOSTAT

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The FAO Corporate Statistical Database is an on-line multilingual (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian) database currently containing over 3 million time-series records from over 210 countries and territories covering statistics on agriculture, nutrition, fisheries, forestry, food aid, land use and population.

FAOSTAT is currently the world’s largest and most comprehensive statistical database on food and agriculture. It contains over 1 billion data points (cells) , 40 million of which are updated annually. The FAOSTAT site receives over 3,000,000 daily hits and 50 million records are downloaded every day. It represents more than a quarter of the visits to FAO's site each day and most of the bandwidth. This is a hundred fold increase just over the last 5 years.

The methodological framework, processing and dissemination systems of FAOSTAT have been re-developed together with its coverage, commodity classifications, statistical and meta databases to provide more up-to-date and reliable statistics, based on user requests and feedbacks.

The new FAOSTAT subscriber module is available since 1 January 2007; interested users should consult the portal to see the various options. Note: FAO will celebrate the centenary of international agricultural statistics, together with the Italian Government, in May 2008.

The World Agricultural Trade Flows application consists of a Macromedia Flash application that shows graphically the trade of agricultural food commodities between nations all around the world.

The World Agricultural Trade Matrix, a related product, displays agriculture related trade by source and destination in a matrix format, for analytical purposes.

It is the world's only application that allows the display and analysis of information relating to the agri-food trade, by source and destination, for quantities and values. It is possible to see data about wheat trade as for alfalfa for forage rather than breakfast cereals and so on. It was released for the first time in 2002.

Also available are the primary equivalent World Agricultural Trade Flows and the primary equivalent World Agricultural Trade Matrix where all trade of transformed commodities is reduced to primary equivalent by using calorie based conversion factors.