Coffee market data goes public on a free dashboard from the ICO
The coffee market’s own statistics moved onto a free public dashboard on 30 September, and the group indicator chart is the first place to look.
Coffee market data used to sit in a dozen places at once: a monthly PDF, a commercial terminal, a national statistics office. On 30 September 2026 the International Coffee Organization put most of it on one free screen. The news is not a new number. It is who can finally read the old ones.
What landed on 30 September
The ICO unveiled its Coffee Market Intelligence Platform at a press conference in Geneva, during the 142nd Session of the International Coffee Council. The next morning, 1 October, was the first International Coffee Day recognised by the United Nations. Vanúsia Nogueira, the ICO’s Executive Director, framed it in a sentence: good data cannot eliminate volatility, but it can reduce uncertainty.
What the dashboard actually holds
Behind the globe sit the daily ICO composite indicator price and its four group indicators, the New York and London coffee futures prices, monthly exchange-certified stocks, detailed trade data, and annual figures for global coffee production and consumption.
It is laid over an interactive 3D globe rather than a stack of tables, which sounds like decoration until you try to trace where one country’s beans end up. The dashboards are open at the ICO data portal.
Where the numbers come from
Provenance matters more here than the interface. Under the International Coffee Agreement, an exporting country issues a Certificate of Origin for every shipment and reports its export statistics to the ICO Secretariat each month. Importing countries report imports, re-exports and inventories, and both sides are cross-checked against partner customs records. That is why coffee trade flows here rarely match a national press release, and why Uganda’s export earnings this year read differently in volume and in value.
What the coffee price index shows right now
Open the group indicator chart and the spread jumps first. In August 2026 the ICO composite indicator price averaged 287.29 cents per pound. The four groups underneath were nowhere near each other: Colombian Milds at 387.46 cents, Robustas at 180.63, a gap of 206.82 cents across one market. A single coffee price index number hides that.
Certified stocks sit one tab over. New York held 0.24 million 60-kg bags in August 2026, the lowest of the twelve months in that table, against 0.83 million in London. Thin stock turns a weather headline into a price move, as the margin call episode in July showed.
Where the free tier stops
Free has edges. Everyone sees current-year prices and stock data, plus aggregated trade and production figures for this year and last. ICO Members get the history free, back to 1963. Bulk datasets still cost a commercial subscription. That is a fair measure of coffee market transparency: useful to a cooperative manager, short of a public archive.
Coffee supports at least 12.5 million farming families by the ICO’s own count, and few of them have seen the price series their crop is settled against. Open the group indicator chart and find which of the four lines the bag in your cupboard sits on. Washed Mexican arabica does not track the headline arabica contract.
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