Important Notice on the changes in TradeSTAT

This year the methodology for the estimation of trade data has been revised (to take advantage of the wealth of trade partner, mirror, data and full available FAOSTAT modelling capacities).

So, due to this new appraoch users can expect to find time series breaks for TradeSTAT circa 1990.

TradeSTAT: detailed trade data

The new FAOSTAT TradeSTAT module contains detailed agricultural trade data from 1961 to 2005.

The agricultural trade data are detailed official data, provided electronically (CD-ROMs, etc.) by over 100 countries/ territories on an annual basis. The original files are standardised, processed and validated by the Statistics Division.

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Where the designation "country" or "area" appears on this internet site, it covers countries, territories or areas.

The data of the FAOSTAT database shown on this internet site are copyrighted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and are provided for your internal use only. They may not be re-disseminated in any form without written permission of the FAO Statistics Division.

All references to FAOSTAT data will have to be mentioned with the proper URL and the access date.