Algeria Food Prices: WFP Market Monitoring for Essential Commodities

This dataset tracks market prices for essential food commodities across Algeria, sourced from the World Food Programme (WFP) Price Database. It provides historical price trends for staples such as maize, rice, beans, fish, and sugar, with updates occurring weekly. While the global database contains records from 1992, this specific subset focuses on Algerian market indicators.

Use Cases

• Analyzing inflation trends for staple goods like rice and sugar in Algerian markets
• Developing food security indicators based on the price volatility of maize and beans
• Forecasting future food costs using historical time-series price data

Strengths

• Sourced from the World Food Programme's official price database
• Covers multiple food categories including grains, proteins, and sweeteners
• CC-BY-IGO license facilitates open research and attribution

Limitations

• Specific column headers and row counts are not provided in the source metadata
• Temporal start date for Algeria specifically may be more recent than the 1992 global database start
• Data is primarily monthly, which may mask intra-month price volatility

Provenance

Source

World Food Programme (WFP) Price Database

Time Range

1992 - 2026

Freshness

Updated weekly, though the underlying data points are largely monthly averages.

Geography

Algeria