World Vitals / Production, supply, and nutrition
Build a food-system explorer across production, supply, hunger, prices, and environmental pressure.
Global food pages should connect production, availability, nutrition, and vulnerability without collapsing them into one number.
The primary charts now come from normalized database observations. Snapshot cards remain useful for latest values, but time series and paired relationships get chart types that match the question.
Database charts
These charts use normalized observations from the World Vitals database. Time-series charts show change; scatter plots show paired relationships where the data actually supports comparison.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The FAO Food Price Index tracks monthly international prices for a basket of traded food commodities.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Cereals are tracked separately because staple grain pressure can move differently from the full food basket.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The oils index often reacts strongly to energy markets, biofuel demand, weather, and trade disruption.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The FAO meat index helps separate animal-protein market pressure from cereals, dairy, oils, and sugar.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Dairy can diverge from the headline food index because milk supply cycles and export demand differ.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Sugar is tracked separately because supply expectations and biofuel economics can dominate the signal.
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World Bank
Yield per hectare separates production gains from simply using more land.
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World Bank
Production volume is useful beside yields because total supply depends on both productivity and area.
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World Bank WDI
This paired view helps separate productivity gains from land expansion.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
World Bank WDI
The paired path shows the structural shift inside global seafood supply.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
Metric snapshots
Snapshot and live-rate cards are kept separate from historical charts so they do not pretend to show a trend.
Approximate latest UN estimate of people affected by chronic undernourishment.
FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO / 2024Related topics
See drinking-water access, surface-water use, and hunger indicators from UN and WHO-linked sources.
Agricultural productivityTrack crop yield indicators by country, crop, and year from agricultural statistics sources.
Diet cost and affordabilityTrack international food price pressure through FAO monthly food commodity indices.