Food Prices for Lesotho, sourced from the FAOSTAT bulk data service. The dataset covers categories including Consumer Price Indices, Deflators, Exchange rates, and Producer Prices. It was last updated on 2026-03-16 and is published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.
Use Cases
- Modeling food price inflation based on Consumer Price Indices data.
- Analyzing agricultural producer profitability based on Producer Prices data.
- Adjusting economic time series for inflation based on Deflators data.
- Studying the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on food costs based on Exchange rates data.
Strengths
- Data originates from the authoritative FAOSTAT service of the United Nations.
- License is CC-BY-3.0-IGO, permitting open use and adaptation.
- Last updated on 2026-03-16, indicating recent maintenance.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
- Collection Method
- Aggregated from the FAOSTAT bulk data service.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-16 12:06:50.878237; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Lesotho