Areas referring to the area under cultivation, which corresponds to the total sown area excluding the ruined area after the harvest (e.g. due to natural disasters). If the same land parcel is used twice in the same year, the area of this parcel can be counted twice. Production is measured as the harvested production, which also includes on-holding losses and wastage, quantities consumed directly on the farm and marketed quantities, indicated in units of basic product weight. The yield is the harvested production per ha for the area under cultivation.
CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded.
The crops primary statisitcs are part of the "Crops and livestock products" dataset recorded for 278 products, covering also the following categories:
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CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine.
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LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys.
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LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy.
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LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.
Data revision: 2025-12-15
Supplemental Information:
Coverage: FAO strives to provide data for all countries, and for all crops and livestock commodities in terms of production (primary and processed), harvested areas, and live and slaughtered animal numbers.
Unit of measure:
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area harvested [ha]
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production [t]
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seed [t]
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yield [hg/ha]
Time coverage: 1961-2024
More detailed information on this dataset is provided in the FAOSTAT metadata.
Citation:
FAO. [YYYY (year of last update)]. [Name of database: Name of dataset OR Name of database]. [Accessed on [DD Month YYYY]]. [URL] Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Contact points:
Resource Contact: FAO Statistics Division (ESS), Crops, Livestock and Food Statistics Team
Metadata Contact: FAO Statistics Division (ESS), Crops, Livestock and Food Statistics Team
Data lineage:
Source data
The main data source is official statistics from FAO member countries. The source data can originate from surveys, administrative data and estimates based on expert observations. Which type of source is used by countries can significantly affect reliability and comparability of data. In nearly all cases where countries provide their official production data, data are recorded as reported by countries. The only exceptions are the application of conversion factors (e.g., if a country reports rice production on a husked rice basis, that production must be converted to a paddy basis), or cases of reporting errors (typically digit errors). In instances where no official data is available, data from unofficial sources (as specialized international commodity institutes i.e. Oil World, USDA etc.) may be used. If no data from either official or unofficial sources is available, data are imputed. In all cases, data are flagged accordingly.
Data collection method:
FAO data collection is carried out by a country correspondents in the Member States. The collection run either through annual production questionnaires (APQ) distributed to countries, from national publications (Yearbooks and Pocketbooks) or from official country websites.
Base period: Not applicable
More information on data validation, imputation, regional aggregation, use of statistical classifications, data revision policies and practices are provided in the FAOSTAT metadata.
Resource constraints:
As per FAO Policy on Open Data Licensing for FAO Statistical Databases, this work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0). By using this database, you agree to be bound by the terms of this license and the FAO Statistical Database Terms of Use.For this particular data domain, data sourced from Eurostat, and the International Organisation of Vine and Wine and only marginally processed by FAO might be subject to additional restrictions. Please consult the copyright notice of these organizations for more details (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/main/help/copyright-notice; https://www.oiv.int/terms-and-condition ).
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