Food and drinks
Food price index
Grains, vegetable oils, sugar, meat and more, in one number. World Bank food price index (2010 = 100), monthly average.
- Latest124.1Sep 2026 · index, 2010 = 100
- A year earlier107.2Sep 2025
- Change over a year+15.8%in US dollars
index, 2010 = 100, monthly average
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| Sep 2026 | 124.1 |
| Aug 2026 | 119.6 |
| Jul 2026 | 118.0 |
| Jun 2026 | 117.7 |
| May 2026 | 121.1 |
| Apr 2026 | 119.0 |
| Mar 2026 | 117.5 |
| Feb 2026 | 113.8 |
| Jan 2026 | 111.1 |
| Dec 2025 | 109.4 |
| Nov 2025 | 109.0 |
| Oct 2025 | 106.3 |
Each figure is the average over a whole month, published weeks or months after the month ends. It shows the trend, not the price on any one day, and it is never a live price.
What it is
An index made by the World Bank that combines world prices of grains, vegetable oils and oilseeds, sugar, meat, fruit and other foods traded between countries.
The units
An index, not a price: 2010 = 100. A value of 110 means these foods cost on average 10% more on world markets than in 2010, in US dollars.
What moves the price
Harvests and weather (droughts, floods, El Niño), energy and fertiliser costs, wars in big exporting regions (Russia and Ukraine export a lot of wheat and sunflower oil), export bans, demand for biofuels, and the dollar.
Why it matters for everyday prices
World food prices reach supermarket shelves with a delay of several months and only partly: in rich countries most of what you pay for food is processing, transport, packaging, shops and wages, not the raw crop.
Where the numbers come from
Source: World Bank, Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), 2 Oct 2026 edition (CC BY 4.0). Original source: World Bank calculations.