Burundi Real Time Prices for Food and Commodities, Weekly Updates

Real Time Prices is a live dataset compiled and updated weekly by the World Bank Development Economics Data Group. It uses direct price measurement and machine learning estimation to fill missing data, drawing on sources like the World Food Program and UN agencies. The dataset focuses on Burundi and was last updated on 2026-04-08.

Use Cases

• Modeling food price inflation trends based on weekly price updates
• Forecasting commodity price movements based on real-time estimates
• Analyzing market stability based on price data from sources like WFP and UN agencies

Strengths

• Updated weekly, providing near real-time data
• Compiled by the World Bank Development Economics Data Group, an authoritative source
• Uses machine learning to estimate missing price data, potentially improving coverage

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its focus on Burundi

Provenance

Source

World Bank Development Economics Data Group, using data from World Food Program (WFP) and UN agencies

Collection Method

Combination of direct price measurement and machine learning estimation of missing data

Time Range

Historical and current estimates, updated weekly

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-08 20:06:55

Geography

Burundi