Costa Rica Food Prices from the World Food Programme Database

Weekly-updated food price data for Costa Rica, sourced from the World Food Programme Price Database. The database covers foods such as maize, rice, beans, fish, and sugar for 98 countries and some 3000 markets. Data goes back as far as 1992 for a few countries, with many starting reporting from 2003 or thereafter.

Use Cases

• Modeling food price inflation based on reported commodity prices.
• Analyzing food security risks based on price trends for staples like maize, rice, and beans.
• Comparing commodity price dynamics across markets within Costa Rica.
• Building time-series forecasts for key food items like sugar and fish.

Strengths

• Sourced from the authoritative World Food Programme Price Database.
• Covers multiple key food commodities including maize, rice, beans, fish, and sugar.
• Updated weekly, offering potential for timely analysis.
• Has a long temporal scope, with data for some countries going back to 1992.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description notes the data is updated weekly but contains to a large extent monthly data, indicating potential granularity mismatch.

Provenance

Source

WFP - World Food Programme

Collection Method

Sourced from the World Food Programme Price Database.

Time Range

Data goes back to 1992 for some countries, with many starting from 2003.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 09:34:36.837843; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Costa Rica, as part of a global database covering 98 countries.