# FAO FAOSTAT

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/unfao/  
**Website:** https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

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.

## Kin Score — 30.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 30.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 61.4 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 28.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (7)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Unfao Agentic Access** — 11 operations

## Security (1)

- **Unfao Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

Agriculture, food security, Statistics, Trade, Land Use, Environment, UN, Open Data

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/unfao/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.