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Indicator of food price anomalies

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Indicator of Food Price Anomalies (IFPA), by Consumer Food Price Index

Further information available at: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-02-0c-01.pdf

Indicator of food price anomalies
Indicator of Food Price Anomalies (IFPA), by Consumer Food Price Index
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – processed by Our World in Data
Last updated
August 27, 2024
Next expected update
August 2026
Date range
2010–2022
Unit
index

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) dataset is the primary collection of data tracking progress towards the SDG indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources.

Retrieved on
August 27, 2024
Retrieved from
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations via UN SDG Indicators Database (https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal), UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (accessed 2024). More information available at: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-02-0c-01.pdf.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – processed by Our World in Data. “Indicator of food price anomalies” [dataset]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “FAOSTAT Data/ Consumer Price Indices: http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/CP.” [original data]. Retrieved December 16, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-price-anomalies