FAOSTAT Food Security

FAO Food Security Pulling Steps

Step 1. Navigate to FAOSTAT Food Securitysite. This site will display a suite of food security indicators.

Step 2. The page will automatically display the “DOWNLOAD DATA” page.

Step 3. This will display four options that must be selected to download data: Countries/Regions/Special Groups, Elements, Years, and Items. For all these options, you can type in a search box.

Step 4. For “Countries” options, you will generally want to select “Select All” to capture all country data.

Step 5. For “Elements” options, you will generally want to select “Value”.

Step 6. For “Years”, you will generally want to select “Select All” to capture all years of data available.

Step 7. For “Items”, select the desired indicator. You can also type in the search box for the indicator. This example will use “Prevalence of undernourishment (percent)”.

Step 8. After selecting for these for options, scroll down below the options. You also have options to select the “Output Type”, “File Type”, and “Thousand Separator in ‘Show Data’”. It’s recommended to select “Pivot” under “Output Type” to have easier data cleaning.

Step 9. You may select “Show Data” to look at the data before downloading. This option will populate data at the bottom of the page.

Step 10. Click “Download Data”. Either an Excel or CSV sheet will download. Now you can format the data to upload it into IFs. To import data into IFs, please follow the instructions found in the Importing Data (general instructions) page.