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 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Catalog API, Data API, Dimensions API, and 4 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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2 published contracts

Agriculture Food Security Statistics Trade Land Use EnvironmentUNOpen Data

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Composite quality — 24.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 11.6 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 24/100 · 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 9.5 — up to +18.1 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

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OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 7

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

FAOSTAT Bulk Download API

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.

FAO FAOSTAT Catalog API

Browse available bulk datasets

FAO FAOSTAT Data API

Operations for retrieving FAOSTAT statistical data

FAO FAOSTAT Dimensions API

Operations for querying dimension members (areas, items, elements, years, flags)

FAO FAOSTAT Domains API

Operations for browsing available FAOSTAT domains and groups

FAO FAOSTAT Downloads API

Download complete domain datasets as ZIP archives

FAO FAOSTAT Metadata API

Operations for retrieving dataset and indicator metadata

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Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

FAOSTAT Bulk Download Catalog API

OPEN COLLECTION

FAOSTAT Bulk Download Catalog Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

FAOSTAT Bulk Download Catalog Dimensions API

OPEN COLLECTION

FAOSTAT Bulk Download Catalog Domains API

OPEN COLLECTION

FAOSTAT Bulk Download Catalog Downloads API

OPEN COLLECTION

FAOSTAT Bulk Download Catalog Metadata API

OPEN COLLECTION

FAO FAOSTAT API pricing

Not yet checked against FAO FAOSTAT's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Free Public Access	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

FAO FAOSTAT

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 2

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Faostat Context

7 classes · 30 properties

JSON-LD

Faostat Dataset Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

FAO FAOSTAT — jsonschema rules

4 rules · 3 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

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.

Data Query Crops

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Domains List

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Unfao Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Unfao Agentic Access

11 operations

11 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

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.

  '
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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: Plans
  url: plans/plans.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/unfao-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/unfao-domain-security.yml

FAO FAOSTAT API — frequently asked questions

Does FAO FAOSTAT have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from FAO FAOSTAT, including FAOSTAT Bulk Download API, FAO FAOSTAT Catalog API and FAO FAOSTAT Data API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the FAO FAOSTAT API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for FAO FAOSTAT, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the FAO FAOSTAT API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for FAO FAOSTAT, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the FAO FAOSTAT API ready for AI agents?

FAO FAOSTAT has a Kin Score of 24.7 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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