Data source · Multilateral official · Compilation

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Statistics Division — FAOSTAT

Headquarters: Rome
Founded: 16 October 1945, at the Château Frontenac in Quebec City
Funding: Of FAO’s $4 billion budget for the 2024–25 biennium, 26 per cent comes from assessed contributions paid by member countries — a regular budget of $1,021.7 million set at the biennial Conference — while 74 per cent is expected from voluntary contributions. FAO does not name its largest funders on these pages.
Governance: 194 members — 193 countries and the European Union. The biennial Conference sets the regular budget, and the statistical system operates under the oversight of the Chief Statistician.
Published: Domain by domain against a release calendar, covering more than 245 countries and territories from 1961. No single global refresh cycle is documented.
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) for the selected FAOSTAT Food Balances dataset, subject to FAO Statistical Database Terms, including attribution, no endorsement, and no use to promote a commercial enterprise.