FAO Trade Network

Multiplex international trade network from FAO data. Nodes are countries (with nodeLabel attribute) and directed weighted edges represent trade volumes between countries across multiple commodity layers. Heterogeneous via layer (commodity type) and nodeLabel (country/region) attributes.

npx keepset fetch fao_trade

Nodes: 214
Edges: 318,346
Size: 1.3 MiB

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Overview

Id	`fao_trade`
Category	`graph/v1`
Kind	graph
Domain	Economic network
Tags	heterogeneous
Licence	not recorded by the source
Catalogue	`keepset` 1.33.0

Sources and provenance

#	URL	Status	Retrieved	Read by recipe	Pinned snapshot	SHA-256
0	https://networks.skewed.de/net/fao_trade	live	2026-04-19		20260316203519raw	`7e7d699caa61`
1	https://networks.skewed.de/net/fao_trade/files/fao_trade.csv.zip	live	2026-04-19	yes	20220402122443raw	`bed0e6d038b6`

Citations

FAO (2020). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Trade Data.

Recipe

Source	#1
Archive	zip
Member	`edges.csv`
Parser format	`"edge-list"`
Parser encoding	`"utf-8"`
Parser delimiter	`"comma"`
Parser skipLines	`0`
Parser commentPrefixes	`["#"]`
Parser sourceColumn	`0`
Parser targetColumn	`1`

Crosswalk

keepset/topology to graph/v1, as a crossmap crosswalk.

Rule	From	To	Direction
move	`meta`	`meta`	both
move	`nodes[].id`	`nodes[].id`	both
move	`edges[].source`	`edges[].source`	both
move	`edges[].target`	`edges[].target`	both

Expected counts

Edges	318,346
Nodes	214

Properties

Directed	yes
Download bytes	1.3 MiB
Heterogeneous	yes
Multigraph	yes
Self loops	yes
Weighted	no