FAOSTAT: SDG Indicators: SDG Indicators

The Suite of Gender Indicators presents a set of indicators relevant to agrifood systems that are disaggregated by sex, with the aim of highlighting gender differences across agrifood systems. The initial set of indicators is based on those used in FAO’s 2023 Status of Women in Agrifood Systems (SWAFS) report and on the recommendations of an expert consultation held in December 2023, and covers key dimensions including economic participation, governance, agency, social norms, assets and services, education, health, and nutrition. Indicator selection was informed by expert judgment and by the availability of data with sufficient geographic and temporal coverage to enable meaningful comparisons across regions and over time. While most indicators are produced and published by FAO and other international organizations, the objective of this domain is to provide a one-stop shop for sex-disaggregated data on agrifood systems.

Table of discontinued FAOSTAT indicators from household surveys covering gender, area and socioeconomics, with rows giving area code, area, item, element, year, unit and value. Published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

The Suite of Food Security Indicators presents the core set of food security indicators. Following the recommendation of experts gathered in the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Round Table on hunger measurement, hosted at FAO headquarters in September 2011, an initial set of indicators aiming to capture various aspects of food insecurity is presented here. The choice of the indicators has been informed by expert judgement and the availability of data with sufficient coverage to enable comparisons across regions and over time. Many of these indicators are produced and published elsewhere by FAO and other international organizations. They are reported here in a single database with the aim of building a wide food security information system. More indicators will be added to this set as more data will become available. Indicators are classified along the four dimensions of food security -- availability, access, utilization and stability.

The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) statistics presented here were compiled by FAO's ESN Nutrition Assessment Team from various sources, including the Demographic and Health Survey Program (DHS), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS), Comprehensive Food Security & Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA), and retroactively computed from national surveys available in the FAO/WHO GIFT platform (https://www.fao.org/gift-individual-food-consumption/en). DHS, MICS, LSMS, CFSVA, and national surveys collect information on food consumption among women of reproductive age (15 to 49 years old) during the previous 24 hours. The characteristics of these surveys, particularly their sample size, allow reporting this data at a high level of disaggregation. The data reported here are therefore more disaggregated and complementary to the full MDD-W dataset presented in the FAOSTAT Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Indicators domain (https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/SDGB). The MDD-W indicator is also produced and published elsewhere by other international organizations and national governments. MDD-W statistics are reported here in a single database with the aim of building a comprehensive dietary data information system.

The Rural Livelihoods Indicators domain brings together harmonized data and information on rural incomes, livelihoods and rural development across countries and over time. As part of the Rural Livelihoods Information System (RuLIS), it supports evidence-based policies to reduce rural poverty and supports SDG Indicators 2.3.1 and 2.3.2, while contributing to SDG Indicator 5.a.1.

The quantitative food consumption and nutrient intake statistics were computed by the Food and Nutrition Division (ESN) from representative individual quantitative dietary data available in the FAO/WHO GIFT platform (https://www.fao.org/gift-individual-food-consumption/en). The individual quantitative dietary data is collected through 24-hour recalls or food records, including detailed information on all foods and beverages actually consumed by individuals, at-home and away from home, in a reference period (usually the past 24 hours). Individual quantitative dietary data have the unique benefit to provide sex-age disaggregated detailed information to develop targeted agricultural-, nutrition- and food-related evidence-based policies and programs, food based dietary guidelines, food fortification programs and to study diet-disease associations. Individual quantitative dietary data are also essential for dietary exposure assessments in the area of food safety and have been used for a variety of other purposes such as estimating the environmental impact of diets and identifying less resource-intensive food consumption patterns.