Vietnam Food Prices from World Food Programme, Weekly Updates Since 1992

98 countries and some 3000 markets are covered in the World Food Programme Price Database, which includes foods such as maize, rice, beans, fish, and sugar. This dataset contains food prices for Vietnam, sourced from that database. The data is updated weekly but contains largely monthly data, with historical records going back as far as 1992 for some countries.

Use Cases

• Modeling food price inflation based on commodity price data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing market integration and price volatility based on multi-market coverage
• Forecasting staple food supply trends based on historical price time-series data

Strengths

• Sourced from the authoritative World Food Programme Price Database
• Covers a long temporal range, with data for some countries going back to 1992
• Updated weekly, providing relatively recent data points

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data contains largely monthly data despite weekly updates, which may limit granularity

Provenance

Source

WFP - World Food Programme

Collection Method

Sourced from the World Food Programme Price Database

Time Range

Historical data goes back as far as 1992 for a few countries

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 14:52:07.101294

Geography

Vietnam