Dataset · FAO
Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy)
10 years, 2015–2024 · 186 countries · 2 measures
FAO scores how far each country's farming is both productive and sustainable, from 1 to 5, by averaging seven measures: output per hectare, how varied that output is, value added per farm worker, how efficiently nitrogen is used, the pressure farming puts on water, the greenhouse gas emitted per dollar of output, and how much farm work is informal. It is the interim measure the UN uses for SDG target 2.4, sustainable food production.
This site holds every year from 2015 to 2024, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy) · the file
- Newest
- Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy), 2024
- Held
- 10 years · 1,869 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0110 years
Every year
Every year comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: sustainable-agriculture-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 186 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 186 | 0 | |
Progress toward productive and sustainable agriculture, current status (score, 1–5)sustainable_agriculture_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: Current status score, from 1 (worst) to 5 (best), averaged over up to seven sub-indicators. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 1.67 Tuvalu4.573 share itmiddle 3.14 | 36 | 0 | |
Trend score (1–5)trend_scoreMeasure | FAO's trend score on the same 1 to 5 scale, which rates the direction each measure has moved in rather than where it stands. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 2.002 share it4.83 Guineamiddle 3.86 | 33 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03187 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 |
| Asia | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 |
| Europe | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
| Oceania | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| All | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 186 |
Who joined and who left
- 2024
− Nicaragua
Not in this dataset · 38 places this site covers
FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Aruba
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
India
Isle of Man
Kosovo
Liechtenstein
Macau
Marshall Islands
Monaco
Montserrat
New Caledonia
NiueNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Palestine
Puerto Rico
Saint Martin
San Marino
Sint MaartenSomaliland
Taiwan
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2 · Their file
Sustainable Agriculture Score (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy) 2024
3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
10 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as sustainable-agriculture-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/sustainable-agricultureA key for Food & Agriculture in the Country Index.
Precision
The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
FAOSTAT's SDG Indicators domain, read from FAO's own bulk download. FAO computes the score from FAOSTAT data and from SDG 6.4.2 and 8.3.1 reporting; its trend score, on the same scale, is stored beside it.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked October 3, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy), via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy), 2015–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/sustainable-agriculture
The publisher’s own citation: FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: SDG Indicators. Accessed on 3 October 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/SDGB Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy) by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
In the Country Index
A key for Food & Agriculture
“How productive and how sustainable a country's farming is at once — output, inputs, water, emissions and farm work scored together, which is what it takes to grow food rather than how much is grown.”
Food & Agriculture standingsSubjects
Near neighbours
- Cereal YieldFAO · 63 held · 1961–2023
- Agriculture Orientation IndexFAO · 24 held · 2001–2024
- Dietary Energy SupplyFAO · 24 held · 2001–2024
07Questions
Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy): questions and answers
What is the Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy)?
FAO scores how far each country's farming is both productive and sustainable, from 1 to 5, by averaging seven measures: output per hectare, how varied that output is, value added per farm worker, how efficiently nitrogen is used, the pressure farming puts on water, the greenhouse gas emitted per dollar of output, and how much farm work is informal. It is the interim measure the UN uses for SDG target 2.4, sustainable food production.
Which years of the Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy) can I download?
All 10, from 2015 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does FAO rank countries on it?
No. FAO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to FAO. The licence text is linked on this page.