What is the price of bananas per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica bananas is between US$ 0.93 and US$ 1.13 per kilogram or between US$ 0.42 and US$ 0.51 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of bananas in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for bananas is between CRC 504.53 and CRC 611.88 per kilogram or between CRC 228.81 and CRC 277.50 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica bananas is between US$ 0.65 and US$ 0.79 per kilogram or between US$ 0.29 and US$ 0.36 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica bananas - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The volume of bananas sold by Costa Rica in 2020 was 2,623,530 metric tonnes. In 2019 Costa Rica exported 2,382,318 tonnes of bananas. For 2019 alone, the market for Costa Rica bananas (fruits category) has reduced, flactuating by -4.102 % compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, bananas' exports went down by -5.66 pc bringing Costa Rica US$998.34m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's bananas exports are categorised as:
- Bananas, incl. plantains, fresh or dried (HS code 080300)
- Fresh or dried bananas (excluding plantains) (HS code 080390)
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Costa Rica bananas export values
In 2019, Costa Rica exported bananas valued at 998.34m USD, a drop of -2.98% from 2018's total bananas export of 1028.975m USD. The yearly reduction in value of Costa Rica bananas between 2017 to 2018 was -1.33 per cent.
The per year variation in the amount of Costa Rica's bananas exports between 2017 and 2019 was -5.66 percent when compared to a variation of -4.102% in the growth rate between 2018 and 2019.
Costa Rica's stake of the world's total bananas' exports in 2019 was less than 1%. Costa Rica holds position 70 in world exports of bananas.
Export markets for Costa Rica bananas ( in '000$ )
Costa Rica's top destinations for bananas are US, United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.
Costa Rica procured 17,396 tonnes of bananas in 2019.
Production
The production of bananas in Costa Rica was 4,874,762 tonnes in 2019 and is predicted to change by an average of 1.1%. The country had approximately 86,338.00 hectares under bananas cultivation.