What is the highest annual coffee (arabica) value in this dataset?

$3.84 ($/lb) in 2025 annual value. This is the highest annual observation within 1960–2025, rather than a daily market record.

How are inflation-adjusted prices calculated?

Each nominal observation is multiplied by the site’s reference CPI divided by the CPI for that observation’s year. The same inflation calculation is used across commodity charts.

Agriculture & Softs Series coverage: 1960–2025

Coffee (Arabica) Historical Price Archive

Annual Coffee (Arabica) Price Archive

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This chart tracks annual Arabica coffee prices from the World Bank Pink Sheet.

Annual Coffee, Arabica benchmark price: World Bank annual nominal observations from the Pink Sheet workbook. Unit conversions and CPI adjustments are calculated by CommoditiesHistory.com. No incomplete 2026 annual value is included. Published dollars per kilogram are converted to dollars per pound.

Coffee (Arabica) Interactive Price History (1960–2025)

Inflation-Adjusted (Real 2026 USD)

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Data sources: World Bank Annual Observations

Coffee (Arabica) Historical Eras & Macro Cycles

Detailed analysis of secular supercycles, wartime allocations, and price shocks

Coffee (Arabica) historical observations

1960–2025

World Bank annual nominal observations from the Pink Sheet workbook. Unit conversions and CPI adjustments are calculated by CommoditiesHistory.com. No incomplete 2026 annual value is included. Published dollars per kilogram are converted to dollars per pound.

Price Behavior Annual observations range from $0.37 to $3.84 ($/lb).

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Supply and production
Industrial and consumer demand
International trade

Coffee (Arabica) Complete Historical Price Table (1960–2025)

Nominal vs. Real Inflation-Adjusted Prices in 2026 USD

Year	Nominal Price ($/lb)	Real Price (2026 USD)	CPI / Historical Estimate	Historical Context / Market Event
2025	$3.84	$4.00	321.9	—
2024	$2.55	$2.72	313.7	Historic Brazilian Drought in Minas Gerais & Red Sea Shipping Bottlenecks
2023	$2.06	$2.26	304.7	—
2022	$2.55	$2.92	292.7	—
2021	$2.05	$2.53	271.0	July 2021 Severe Brazilian Polar Air Blast Frost in Cerrado
2020	$1.51	$1.95	258.8	COVID-19 Café Out-of-Home Consumption Shock
2019	$1.31	$1.71	255.7	—
2018	$1.33	$1.77	251.1	—
2017	$1.51	$2.06	245.1	—
2016	$1.64	$2.29	240.0	—
2015	$1.60	$2.26	237.0	—
2014	$2.00	$2.84	236.7	Minas Gerais Historic Drought
2013	$1.40	$2.01	233.0	—
2012	$1.86	$2.72	229.6	—
2011	$2.71	$4.04	224.9	Colombian La Niña Heavy Rains & Leaf Rust (Roya) Outbreak ($3.08/lb Peak)
2010	$1.96	$3.01	218.1	—
2009	$1.44	$2.25	214.5	—
2008	$1.40	$2.17	215.3	—
2007	$1.23	$1.99	207.3	—
2006	$1.14	$1.90	201.6	—
2005	$1.15	$1.97	195.3	—
2004	$0.803	$1.42	188.9	—
2003	$0.644	$1.17	184.0	—
2002	$0.617	$1.15	179.9	—
2001	$0.621	$1.18	177.1	The 'Coffee Crisis': Global Farmgate Prices Fall Below Production Cost
2000	$0.871	$1.69	172.2	—
1999	$1.04	$2.09	166.6	—
1998	$1.35	$2.78	163.0	—
1997	$1.89	$3.95	160.5	Speculative Hedge Fund Squeeze (Spot $3.18/lb)
1996	$1.22	$2.61	156.9	—
1995	$1.51	$3.32	152.4	—
1994	$1.50	$3.39	148.2	Twin Brazilian Frosts Spike Global Markets
1993	$0.708	$1.64	144.5	—
1992	$0.640	$1.53	140.3	Vietnam Floods World Market with Cheap Robusta
1991	$0.848	$2.09	136.2	—
1990	$0.894	$2.29	130.7	—
1989	$1.08	$2.93	124.0	International Coffee Agreement Quota System Collapses
1988	$1.37	$3.89	118.3	—
1987	$1.13	$3.34	113.6	—
1986	$1.95	$5.95	109.6	—
1985	$1.47	$4.56	107.6	Severe Brazilian Drought
1984	$1.45	$4.67	103.9	—
1983	$1.32	$4.44	99.6	—
1982	$1.40	$4.87	96.5	—
1981	$1.30	$4.80	90.9	—
1980	$1.57	$6.40	82.4	—
1979	$1.74	$8.02	72.6	—
1978	$1.63	$8.37	65.2	—
1977	$2.35	$12.96	60.6	Historic Retail Coffee Boycott in US (Spot Peaked at $3.38/lb in April 1977)
1976	$1.43	$8.41	56.9	—
1975	$0.653	$4.07	53.8	July 18, 1975: The Brazilian 'Black Frost' (Geada Negra) Destroys 1.5B Trees
1974	$0.658	$4.47	49.3	—
1973	$0.621	$4.69	44.4	—
1972	$0.503	$4.03	41.8	—
1971	$0.449	$3.71	40.5	—
1970	$0.522	$4.50	38.8	—
1969	$0.399	$3.64	36.7	—
1968	$0.395	$3.80	34.8	—
1967	$0.390	$3.91	33.4	—
1966	$0.422	$4.36	32.4	—
1965	$0.454	$4.82	31.5	—
1964	$0.458	$4.95	31.0	—
1963	$0.367	$4.02	30.6	—
1962	$0.376	$4.18	30.2	—
1961	$0.408	$4.57	29.9	—
1960	$0.417	$4.72	29.6	First International Coffee Agreement (ICA) Quota Talks

Frequently Asked Questions: Coffee (Arabica) History

Targeted answers to high-frequency historical and economic queries

What does this coffee (arabica) chart measure?: Annual Coffee, Arabica benchmark price. World Bank annual nominal observations from the Pink Sheet workbook. Unit conversions and CPI adjustments are calculated by CommoditiesHistory.com. No incomplete 2026 annual value is included. Published dollars per kilogram are converted to dollars per pound.
What is the highest annual coffee (arabica) value in this dataset?: $3.84 ($/lb) in 2025 annual value. This is the highest annual observation within 1960–2025, rather than a daily market record.
How are inflation-adjusted prices calculated?: Each nominal observation is multiplied by the site’s reference CPI divided by the CPI for that observation’s year. The same inflation calculation is used across commodity charts.

Cite This Dataset

World Bank: Commodity Price Data (Pink Sheet): Coffee, Arabica — Data providers: Bloomberg Finance L.P. Finance L.P.; Complete Coffee Coverage; International Coffee Organization; Thomson Reuters Datastream; World Bank. — Underlying source data: CC BY 4.0. Source terms and acknowledgment requirements. Unit conversions and inflation adjustments by CommoditiesHistory.com.

APA (7th Edition)

Commodities History Project. (2026). Coffee (Arabica) Historical Prices and Inflation-Adjusted Series (1960–2025) [Data set]. CommoditiesHistory.com. https://commoditieshistory.com/coffee

BibTeX

@dataset{commoditieshistory_coffee_2026,
  author = {{Commodities History Project}},
  title = {Coffee (Arabica) Historical Prices and Inflation-Adjusted Series (1960–2025)},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {CommoditiesHistory.com},
  url = {https://commoditieshistory.com/coffee}
}