Market

Each line is a price for green coffee: raw, unroasted beans, traded in bulk and delivered to a port in the United States or Europe. Every market day the International Coffee Organization collects traders' quotes for named coffees and turns them into four group prices, one for each kind of coffee it tracks, then weights the four by their share of world exports into one composite, the I-CIP.

The unit is US cents per pound. At 254.64, the composite on 27 Oct 2026, a pound of green coffee costs $2.55 at the port. A 250 g bag of roasted coffee starts as about 300 g of green beans, since roasting burns off around a sixth of the weight, so it holds about $1.68 of coffee at the index price. Specialty lots sell well above the index; roasting, freight, packing and margins make up the rest of what a bag costs.

Your coffee's origin tells you which of the four lines is its market price: find it in the groups below. Ethiopia, where arabica comes from, sits with Brazil, because the ICO files it among the natural arabicas.

The long view comes from the World Bank, which publishes each month's average back to 1960: its arabica series is the ICO's Other Milds price and its robusta series the Robustas price, converted here from US dollars per kilogram. The ICO's free daily archive starts on 1 September 2025, so the daily lines begin there.