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FAO indices
World Prices

66.4 pts

The FAO Food Price Index of the month of May 1998 reached the 66.4 points, which meant an decline of -0.6% in relation to previous mensual index of April, that was 66.8 points (-0.4 pts), and was placed a 2.71% above the annual average of 64.65 points recorded (+1.75 pts).

The highest monthly value achieved throughout the year of 67.6 points was 1.81% higgher than the selected month (+1.2 pts), while the lowest value during the period was 61.9, that is 7.27% lower than the 66.4 points of May 1998 (-4.5 pts).

In relation to the values of the previous year, in May 1998 there was a year-on-year decline of -8.79%, 6.4 points under the 72.8 pts reached in the same month of 1997.

Evolutions of May 1998
Annual average

64.65 pts

  1.75 pts (+2.64%)
Previous month

66.8 pts

  -0.4 pts (-0.6%)
June

64.2 pts

  2.2 pts (+3.31%)
May 1997

72.8 pts

  -6.4 pts (-9.64%)
May 1999

55.4 pts

  11 pts (+16.57%)
  • Monthly and year-on-year values of recorded prices in May 1998
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About this data

This is an application developed and maintained by Boletín Agrario, so it should be considered as such for review and intellectual property purposes. The data used corresponds to that published by::

Global Food Price Indexes ➡️ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Prices of the Agri-food chain in Spain ➡️ Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the Government of Spain

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