ERS

• Archived ERS China Data - A comprehensive collection of national and provincial statistical series available from 1949 to the mid-1990s, and archived China Briefing Room.
• ERS China Topic - Description of China's agricultural economy, policy, and trade and an extensive list of ERS publications on China.
• For background on China statistics issues, see:
• • China's Statistics: Are They Reliable? in China's Food and Agriculture: Issues for the 21st Century, April 2002

U.S. Department of Agriculture

• USDA Production, Supply and Distribution Online - USDA estimates of crop production, trade, and consumption for all major countries.
• U.S. Global Agricultural Trade System - U.S. agricultural exports to and imports from China, by commodity. Data can be downloaded using interactive queries.

China Agricultural and Economic Data

• China National Bureau of Statistics - Annual, monthly, and quarterly data from China's official statistical agency
  (English and Chinese).
• China Statistical Yearbooks
• China Ministry of Agriculture - Data on wholesale prices and links to other sources of data and information.
• China Health and Nutrition Survey - Longitudinal survey data collected from a sample of Chinese households.

China Commodity Market News

• National Grain and Oils Information Center - Data, estimated commodity balance sheets, daily, monthly, and weekly reports on markets for grains and oilseeds in China (Chinese language).
• Ministry of Agriculture Data Service - Various agriculture-related data items (Chinese language).
• Ministry of Agriculture Wholesale Market News and Data (Chinese language).

International Organizations

• FAOSTAT - Online agricultural and food statistics database maintained by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.
• United Nations Statistics Division - Statistics from many international sources and unrestricted online access to selected global datasets.
• World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade and Tariff Data - Interactive access to the most up-to-date WTO trade statistics and annual trade statistics publications.

Last updated: Thursday, July 05, 2012

For more information contact: Fred Gale