Agricultural output

Gross production value of the agricultural sector

Data source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Unit: constant 2014-2016 US$
Date range: 1961-2024
Last updated: 2026-02-25
Next expected update: 2027-02-25
Managed by: Pablo Rosado

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A recent FAOSTAT release removed post-2017 data for individual EU member states from the Value of Agricultural Production dataset. To avoid data gaps, we sourced data for those countries from a previous FAOSTAT release.

Documentation from data sources

UN FAO

Item: Agriculture

Metric: Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$)

Data sources

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Production: Value of Agricultural Production

The domain provides detailed data on the value of agricultural production that is calculated by the agricultural production data and the price data at farm gate. Thus, the value of production measures the agricultural production in monetary terms at the farm gate level.

Retrieved on

February 25, 2026

Retrieved from

http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QV

Citation

This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Production: Value of Agricultural Production (2026).

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“Data Page: Gross production value of the agricultural sector”, part of the following publication: Hannah Ritchie, Pablo Rosado, and Max Roser (2023) - “Agricultural Production”. Data adapted from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20261102-112946/grapher/agricultural-output-dollars.html [online resource] (archived on November 2, 2026).

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Gross production value of the agricultural sector – UN FAO” [dataset]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “Production: Value of Agricultural Production” [original data]. Retrieved November 2, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20261102-112946/grapher/agricultural-output-dollars.html (archived on November 2, 2026).

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