Catalog / FAOSTAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) - domain QL (Livestock primary)

fao_ql

FAOSTAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) - domain QL (Livestock primary)

Name: FAOSTAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) - domain QL (Livestock primary)
Creator: FAOSTAT
License: https://www.fao.org/contact-us/terms/en/

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

FAO

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

Coverage

Series catalogued

20,179

Temporal coverage

1961-01-01 – 2019-01-01

Licensing & provenance

License: Redistributable, non-commercial (provider terms verified)
License URL: https://www.fao.org/contact-us/terms/en/
Required attribution: FAO
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

FAOSTAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) - domain QL (Livestock primary). 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_ql series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/fao_ql
Automated refresh: not yet wired — the data here is the verified initial load. See the Source Status board.

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