Catalog / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) — FAOSTAT, Population and Employment: Annual population (domain OA)

fao_oa

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) — FAOSTAT, Population and Employment: Annual population (domain OA)

Name: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) — FAOSTAT, Population and Employment: Annual population (domain OA)
Creator: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
License: https://www.fao.org/contact-us/terms/en/

Open · redistributedRedistributable, non-commercial (provider terms verified)Agriculture & Food

FAO. FAOSTAT: Annual population. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

1,388

Temporal coverage

1950-01-01 – present

Licensing & provenance

License: Redistributable, non-commercial (provider terms verified)
License URL: https://www.fao.org/contact-us/terms/en/
Required attribution: FAO. FAOSTAT: Annual population. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/
Provider terms: https://www.fao.org/contact-us/terms/db-terms-of-use/en/

How to cite

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) — FAOSTAT, Population and Employment: Annual population (domain OA). Retrieved from https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download fao_oa series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/fao_oa
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets