Tea Colombo price (USD / kg) - World Bank Pink Sheets - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Food prices (World Bank Pink Sheets)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to statistics provided by the World Bank, the price of tea on the Colombo market was 3.98 USD / kg in August 2025, compared to 3.80 in July. This marks an increase of 4.74 percent.
Sample. There are 788 observations overall in the monthly time series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time span extending from January 1960 to August 2025.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics computed on the whole sample: the price was equal on average to 1.86 USD / kg; it reached a maximum of 4.49 in September 2022; it hit a trough of 0.43 in June 1979.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD / kg |
|---|---|
| 2025-06-30 | 3.74183540715 |
| 2025-07-31 | 3.79900352089 |
| 2025-08-31 | 3.97763336985 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Commodity price |
| Country or region | World |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Price estimates |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | USD / kg |
| Sources | World Bank |
| Source type | International organization |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution Licence |
| Measure type | Level |
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