The new FAO Statistical Yearbook, the first volume of which was issued in 2004, has consolidated and replaced four previous FAO publications: the FAO Bulletin of Statistics and the FAO Production, Trade and Fertiliser Yearbooks. The yearbook covers a wide spectrum of statistics and indicators belonging to several thematic topics and serves as a reference guide to economists, policy-makers and analysts.
The FAO Statistical Yearbook is published annually in two separate issues: the first providing data by topic for all countries, and the second providing data for each country covering all topics. This publication is Volume 2, issue 1, and includes Volume 2, Issue 2, on a mini CD-ROM.