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FAO indices
World Prices

99.3 pts

The FAO Food Price Index of the month of August 2017 reached the 99.3 points, which meant an decline of -0.9% in relation to previous mensual index of July, that was 100.2 points (-0.9 pts), and was placed a 1.32% above the annual average of 98.01 points recorded (+1.29 pts).

The highest monthly value achieved throughout the year of 100.2 points was 0.91% higgher than the selected month (+0.9 pts), while the lowest value during the period was 95.1, that is 4.42% lower than the 99.3 points of August 2017 (-4.2 pts).

In relation to the values of the previous year, in August 2017 there was a year-on-year increase of 4.2%, 4 points above the 95.3 pts reached in the same month of 2016.

Evolutions of August 2017
Annual average

98.01 pts

  1.29 pts (+1.3%)
Previous month

100.2 pts

  -0.9 pts (-0.91%)
September

99.9 pts

  -0.6 pts (-0.6%)
August 2016

95.3 pts

  4 pts (+4.03%)
August 2018

96 pts

  3.3 pts (+3.32%)
  • Monthly and year-on-year values of recorded prices in August 2017
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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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