Japan Food Prices: WFP Market Monitoring of Staple Commodities

Japan food price monitoring data sourced from the World Food Programme (WFP) Price Database. It tracks commodities like rice, fish, and sugar across Japanese markets with updates provided on a weekly or monthly basis. The data is part of a global monitoring effort covering 98 countries to track food security and economic indicators.

Use Cases

• Analyzing price volatility of staple foods like rice and fish in Japanese markets
• Monitoring food security indicators through commodity price trends
• Economic modeling of inflation using historical food price data

Strengths

• Official data from the World Food Programme
• Covers diverse food categories including fish, sugar, and grains
• Standardized CC-BY-IGO license for intergovernmental data

Limitations

• Specific column headers and row counts are not defined in the source metadata
• Temporal coverage for Japan may be shorter than the global 1992-present range

Provenance

Source

World Food Programme (WFP) Price Database

Freshness

Updated weekly with predominantly monthly data points.

Geography

Japan