FAO FAOSTAT

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.

FAO FAOSTAT publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Catalog API, Data API, Dimensions API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Agriculture, food security, Statistics, Trade, and Land Use.

The FAO FAOSTAT catalog on APIs.io includes 2 JSON-LD contexts and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

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30.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFree

7 APIs

Agriculturefood securityStatistics Trade Land Use EnvironmentUNOpen Data

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Composite quality — 30.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

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APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

FAOSTAT Data Record

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FAOSTAT Domain

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

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AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

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DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Source (apis.yml)

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.

  '
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.fao.org/favicon.ico
tags:
- Agriculture
- food security
- Statistics
- Trade
- Land Use
- Environment
- UN
- Open Data
tags_raw:
- 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: '0.23'
apis:
- 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
  tags_raw:
  - 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
- aid: unfao:unfao-catalog-api
  name: FAO FAOSTAT Catalog API
  description: Browse available bulk datasets
  humanURL: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
  baseURL: https://fenixservices.fao.org/faostat/api/v1
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/unfao-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
  - 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
- aid: unfao:unfao-data-api
  name: FAO FAOSTAT Data API
  description: Operations for retrieving FAOSTAT statistical data
  humanURL: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
  baseURL: https://fenixservices.fao.org/faostat/api/v1
  tags:
  - Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/unfao-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
  - 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
- aid: unfao:unfao-dimensions-api
  name: FAO FAOSTAT Dimensions API
  description: Operations for querying dimension members (areas, items, elements, years, flags)
  humanURL: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
  baseURL: https://fenixservices.fao.org/faostat/api/v1
  tags:
  - Dimensions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/unfao-dimensions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
  - 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
- aid: unfao:unfao-domains-api
  name: FAO FAOSTAT Domains API
  description: Operations for browsing available FAOSTAT domains and groups
  humanURL: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
  baseURL: https://fenixservices.fao.org/faostat/api/v1
  tags:
  - Domains
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/unfao-domains-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
  - 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
- aid: unfao:unfao-downloads-api
  name: FAO FAOSTAT Downloads API
  description: Download complete domain datasets as ZIP archives
  humanURL: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
  baseURL: https://fenixservices.fao.org/faostat/api/v1
  tags:
  - Downloads
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/unfao-downloads-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
  - 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
- aid: unfao:unfao-metadata-api
  name: FAO FAOSTAT Metadata API
  description: Operations for retrieving dataset and indicator metadata
  humanURL: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
  baseURL: https://fenixservices.fao.org/faostat/api/v1
  tags:
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/unfao-metadata-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
  - 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
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  X-twitter: kinlane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/unfao-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/unfao-domain-security.yml

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