The annual FAO Food Price Index* (FFPI) averaged 124.7 points in 2023, down 20 points from 2022. The highest value for the index in the past ten years was reached in 2022.

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 124.9 points in January 2025, down 2.1 points from December 2024. The highest value for the index in the past 23 years was reached in March 2022. However, the rate of food price increases has been decreasing since.

Food prices worldwide The annual FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) by category shows that the price of vegetable oils grew by a particularly large margin. One of the factors that influenced the spike in oil prices worldwide during 2020 and 2021 were the supply-chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, after the war in Ukraine, shipping costs and grain prices also had a noticeable impact on global food prices. Global food prices are calculated to have increased by 3.68 percent, due to changes in shipping costs and grain prices. The European Union (EU) has experienced a particularly high increase in the annual consumer prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages, as compared to other selected countries worldwide. Inflation in Europe

The inflation rate for food in the EU grew from 0.2 percent in May 2021 to 19.2 percent in March 2023, as compared to the same month in the previous year. In the following months, the food inflation started decreasing again, reaching 1.86 percent in April 2024. The overall inflation rate in the Euro area reached its peak in December 2022 at 9.2 percent. The rate has since fallen to 2.4 percent in December 2024. As measured by the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), inflation rates in Europe were highest in Turkey, North Macedonia, and Romania as of December 2024.

Food Price Index in World increased to 128 Index Points in June from 127.30 Index Points in May of 2025. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for World Food Price Index.

Graph and download economic data for Global price of Food index (PFOODINDEXM) from Jan 1992 to Apr 2025 about World, food, indexes, and price.

Agricultural Producer Prices (APP) are prices received by farmers for their produce at the farm gate; i.e. at the point where the commodity leaves the farm. APP do not cover the costs after the farm gate; e.g. transportation cost from the farm gate to the nearest market or first point of sale, warehousing costs, processing costs and market charges (if any) for selling the produce. FAOSTAT gives free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available. Annual APP data are provided from 1991 to the previous year for over 160 countries and about 200 commodities, and monthly APP data are provided from January 2010 to December of the previous year for over 60 countries and about 200 commodities. APP are used, along with production data, to estimate value of production for a country, by commodity and in total, as well as Producer Price Indexes, which measure price inflation. APP also enable analysts to analyse price transmission and volatility.

🏳️‍🌈 International Organization English The FAOSTAT monthly Food CPI and General CPI database was based on the ILO CPI data until December 2014. In 2014, IMF-ILO-FAO agreed to transfer global CPI data compilation from ILO to IMF. Upon agreement, CPIs for all items and its sub components originates from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the UN Statistics Division(UNSD) for countries not covered by the IMF. However, due to a limited time coverage from IMF and UNSD for a number of countries, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Central Bank of Western African States (BCEAO), Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), UNdata, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and national statistical office website data are used for missing historical data from IMF and UNSD food CPI. The FAO CPI dataset for all items(or general CPI) and the Food CPI, consists of a complete and consistent set of time series from January 2000 onwards. Data gaps on monthly Food CPI and General CPI are filled using statistical estimation procedures to have full data coverage for all countries for Food CPI and for General CPI. These indices measure the price change between the current and reference periods of the average basket of goods and services purchased by households. The General CPI is typically used to measure and monitor inflation, set monetary policy targets, index social benefits such as pensions and unemployment benefits, and to escalate thresholds and credits in the income tax systems and wages in public and private wage contracts. The FAOSTAT monthly Food CPI inflation rates are annual year-over-year inflation or percentage change over corresponding month of the previous year. The data included in Data360 is a subset of the data available from the source. Please refer to the source for complete data and methodology details. This collection includes only a subset of indicators from the source dataset.

The Food Consumer Price Indices (base=2010) consists of a complete and consistent set of time series from January 2000 onwards, as well as regional, global food CPIs compiled by FAO using population weights to aggregate across countries. These indices measure the price change between the current and reference periods of the average basket of goods and services purchased by households. The general CPI is typically used to measure and monitor inflation, set monetary policy targets, index social benefits such as pensions and unemployment benefits, and to escalate thresholds and credits in the income tax systems and wages in public and private wage contracts.

This replication folder describes the Stata v17 “do file” (code file) for statistical analysis for "Food inflation and child undernutrition in low and middle income countries " by Derek Headey & Marie Ruel. This do file can be used to replicate the analysis in the study mentioned above, published in Nature Communications. The study uses a combination of Demographic Health Survey (DHS) data for child, maternal, household level variables and national level indicators on real food price changes drawn from FAOSTAT, as well as conflict and climate variables. In summary, this is a large multi-country DHS dataset merged with FAO food and total consumer price indices (CPIs) and various other national level control variables. These are DHS surveys from 2000 onwards only.

The authors cannot publicly share the DHS data but can share it upon request, provided we can obtain approval from the DHS implementers. To make a request to access the data for this paper, please email Derek Headey at d.headey@cgiar.org. Alternatively researchers can access the raw DHS data from: https://dhsprogram.com/data/available-datasets.cfm and the country level indicators from the Food and Agriculture Organisation Consumer Prices data portal (https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/CP) as well as The World Bank World Development Indicators (https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators) for obtaining data on various control variables.

Cereals Price Index in World decreased to 107.40 Index Points in June from 109 Index Points in May of 2025. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for World Cereals Price Index.

The FAO vegetable oil Price Index* reached 178.32 index points in June of 2008 during the financial crisis. During the pandemic, the price index rose to 184.56 points in October of 2021. After the start of the war in Ukraine, the index jumped to over 251 points in March of 2022. As of January 2025, the index had declined from the spike in the previous years to 153 points. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page. For further information about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, please visit our dedicated page on the topic.

Meat Price Index in World increased to 126 Index Points in June from 123.40 Index Points in May of 2025. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for World Meat Price Index.

The Phosphorus Fertilizer Application data set of the Global Fertilizer and Manure, Version 1 Data Collection represents the amount of phosphorus fertilizer nutrients applied to croplands. The national-level phosphorus fertilizer application rates for crops are from the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) "Fertilizer Use by Crop 2002" statistics database that is available by request from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).The number of crop-specific fertilizer application rates reported for each country ranged from 2 crops (Guinea) to over 50 crops (United States), and the years for which the data are reported range from 1994 to 2001. Spatially explicit fertilizer inputs of Nitrogen (N) were computed by fusing national-level statistics on fertilizer use with global maps of harvested area for 175 crops. The data were compiled by Potter et al. (2010) and are distributed by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).

The Nitrogen Fertilizer Application data set of the Global Fertilizer and Manure, Version 1 Data Collection represents the amount of nitrogen fertilizer nutrients applied to croplands. The national-level nitrogen fertilizer application rates for crops are from the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) "Fertilizer Use by Crop 2002" statistics database that is available by request from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The number of crop-specific fertilizer application rates reported for each country ranged from 2 crops (Guinea) to over 50 crops (United States), and the years for which the data are reported range from 1994 to 2001. Spatially explicit fertilizer inputs of Nitrogen (N) were computed by fusing national-level statistics on fertilizer use with global maps of harvested area for 175 crops. The data were compiled by Potter et al. (2010) and are distributed by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).

Oils Price Index in World increased to 155.70 Index Points in June from 152.20 Index Points in May of 2025. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for World Oils Price Index.