Coffee Arabica Price History: Monthly Global Price Since 1992

Arabica is the premium coffee variety, prized for its smoother flavour and grown at altitude where it is acutely sensitive to frost and drought. It accounts for roughly 60% of world coffee output, with Brazil as the dominant producer. This dataset reproduces the arabica price of the World Bank Pink Sheet, the International Coffee Organization indicator for other mild arabicas, as a monthly average in US dollars per kilogram since January 1992.

Dataset: Arabica Coffee Price (1992–2026) · Updated 2026-10-01

Data provided as is, with no warranty of accuracy or timeliness. Check any figure against the primary source cited on this page before using it. Terms: legal notice.

Source: World Bank, Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0

Macro Takeaway

Dataset Overview

Dataset Variables

The CSV and Excel files contain the following columns. Each row represents one calendar month.

Column names match the CSV headers exactly.

Download the Complete Dataset

The full dataset is available in CSV and Excel formats: monthly observations covering more than three decades.

Data provided as is, with no warranty of accuracy or timeliness. Check any figure against the primary source cited on this page before using it. Terms: legal notice.

Source Data Access: World Bank Pink Sheet

The underlying series is the “Coffee, Arabica” column of the Monthly Prices sheet in the World Bank’s Commodity Price Data, known as the Pink Sheet. The World Bank publishes it as a monthly Excel workbook on its commodity markets page, under a CC BY 4.0 licence that requires attribution to the World Bank.

The Eco3min dataset reproduces that column unmodified from January 1992, in US dollars per kilogram, in a stable CSV with a fixed column name for direct use in Python, R or any data pipeline. The URL never changes, which makes it suitable for automated scripts.

Direct CSV Access: Eco3min Structured Dataset

https://eco3min.fr/dataset/coffee-arabica-price.csv

This URL returns the complete dataset in CSV format. It can be used directly in pandas, R, curl, or any data tool.

Using the Dataset in Python

import pandas as pd

url = "https://eco3min.fr/dataset/coffee-arabica-price.csv"
df = pd.read_csv(url, parse_dates=["date"])

print(df.head())
print(df["arabica_price"].describe())

df.plot(x="date", y="arabica_price", title="Arabica Coffee Price", legend=False)

Using the Dataset in R

library(readr)

url <- "https://eco3min.fr/dataset/coffee-arabica-price.csv"
df <- read_csv(url)

head(df)
summary(df$arabica_price)

Both examples load the dataset directly from the URL, no download or API key required.

Methodology

The Pink Sheet column “Coffee, Arabica” is the International Coffee Organization (ICO) indicator price for other mild arabicas, an average of the New York and Bremen/Hamburg markets, ex-dock, published by the World Bank in US dollars per kilogram.

Values are monthly averages, which smooth the intra-month swings visible in daily futures and physical quotes. The series begins in 1992.

An Eco3min pipeline on GitHub Actions reads the Pink Sheet workbook after each monthly release, keeps the column unmodified and regenerates the CSV, Excel and JSON files and the page metadata. The World Bank updates the Pink Sheet on the second business day of each month.

Data Quality & Provider Notes

The Pink Sheet price is a widely cited reference for the physical market. A few provider-specific points matter when using this series.

• Release latency. The World Bank publishes the Pink Sheet on the second business day of each month, with the average of the month just ended. Eco3min refreshes the file after each release. The series is not a real-time price.
• Monthly average vs futures spot. This series is a monthly average. It will differ from any single exchange settlement, and a monthly average necessarily understates intra-month peaks.
• Revisions. Prices are market-derived and are not revised like survey-based macro series, but the World Bank can correct recent months or replace a series, and it lists those changes in the notes of the Pink Sheet workbook.
• Source change on 30 September 2026. Until that date this file reproduced another publisher’s series in US cents per pound; it now reproduces the Pink Sheet column in US dollars per kilogram. Values downloaded before and after the switch are not comparable without conversion (1 US dollar per kilogram equals about 45.36 US cents per pound).
• Alternative sources. ICE futures and the originating auction or indicator bodies provide higher-frequency or contract-specific quotes.

Common Pitfalls When Using This Series

1. Confusing nominal and real prices. This series is nominal. Comparing an early-1990s reading to a recent one without adjusting for cumulative inflation overstates the real change. Deflating by CPI gives the true purchasing-power move.
2. Reading the monthly average as a market price. Headlines quote exchange futures; this dataset reports the monthly benchmark average. The two diverge most during fast-moving rallies.
3. Unit confusion. This series is in US dollars per kilogram, while ICE arabica futures are quoted in US cents per pound and news often cites dollars per pound. One US dollar per kilogram equals about 45.36 cents per pound, so the February 2025 average of 9.05 USD/kg is about 410 cents, or 4.10 dollars, per pound.

Historical Regimes

1992–1999: Frost spikes and deregulation. Severe Brazilian frosts in 1994 lifted the monthly average from 1.74 USD/kg in January to 4.89 in September, and a second spike reached 5.89 in May 1997. Between shocks, the earlier collapse of the International Coffee Agreement quota system left the market structurally oversupplied.

2000–2004: The coffee crisis. Vietnam’s rapid expansion into robusta and a Brazilian surplus kept the monthly average between 1.20 and 1.54 USD/kg from 2001 to 2003, a period of acute hardship for smallholder growers worldwide. The August 2002 trough of 1.20 was the lowest since September 1992.

2005–2011: Recovery to a cyclical peak. Tightening supply and rising global demand carried arabica to 6.62 USD/kg in April 2011, a monthly level not exceeded again until November 2024.

2012–2019: Long decline. Persistent oversupply and a strong US dollar dragged the monthly average down to 2.66 USD/kg in May 2019, the lowest since December 2008.

2020–2023: Pandemic and frost. A severe 2021 Brazilian frost and pandemic logistics disruptions lifted the monthly average to 6.17 USD/kg in February 2022, the highest since May 2011, followed by a partial correction to 4.05 in September 2023.

2024–2025: Record territory. Brazil’s worst drought in seven decades and a parallel robusta shortage drove the monthly average to 9.05 USD/kg in February 2025, about 410 cents per pound and above the 1977 peak of the World Bank series. The same level was reached again in November 2025.

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This dataset is part of the Eco3min commodity price repository: energy, metals, agricultural softs and grains, most of them from the World Bank Pink Sheet.

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Sources

• World Bank: Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), Monthly Prices, column “Coffee, Arabica” (CC BY 4.0)
• International Coffee Organization (ICO), indicator price for other mild arabicas, the market basis of the Pink Sheet series

Dataset Reference

Eco3min Research. (2026). Arabica Coffee Price: Global Monthly Price (1992-2026). Source: World Bank, Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), CC BY 4.0.<br> https://eco3min.fr/en/coffee-arabica-price-history-dataset/