Venezuela Food Prices: Market Monitoring for Essential Commodities, 1992-2026

Market-level food price data for Venezuela sourced from the World Food Programme Price Database. It tracks essential commodities like maize, rice, and beans across multiple markets with updates provided weekly. The data is part of a global monitoring effort covering 98 countries and approximately 3,000 markets.

Use Cases

• Tracking price inflation for staple grains like maize and rice in Venezuelan markets
• Assessing food security risks by monitoring fish and sugar price spikes
• Economic forecasting of commodity trends using weekly and monthly price observations

Strengths

• Sourced from the World Food Programme Price Database
• Covers essential commodities like maize, rice, and beans
• Weekly update frequency for monitoring price volatility

Limitations

• Specific column names and row counts are not provided in the source metadata
• Temporal coverage for Venezuela specifically may be shorter than the global 1992 start date

Provenance

Source

World Food Programme (WFP)

Collection Method

Market price monitoring

Time Range

1992-2026

Freshness

Updated weekly

Geography

Venezuela