Food prices in Guatemalan markets, monthly 1998-2026 (WFP)
Wholesale and retail prices of maize, beans, rice, vegetables, fruit, fish and other foods in markets of Guatemala City and Villa Nueva and as a national average, in quetzales and US dollars per selling unit, monthly from January 1998 to September 2026, from the World Food Programme's (WFP) price database, distributed by HDX.
- data points
- 32,420
- series
- 264
- Period
- Jan 1998 to Sep 2026
- Attribution the licence asks for
- Source: World Food Programme (WFP) Price Database — Guatemala, via HDX; prices collected by the sources WFP lists (MAGA/DIPLAN, FAO FPMA …). Licence: CC BY-IGO.
- Licence read on
- Nov 8, 2026
- Frequencies
- Monthly: 264 series
- Nature of the data
- Published: 32,420 data points
- Retrieved
- Nov 7, 2026
- Data state
- Advance Guatemala keeps the data point as the source published it: it does not compare it with other sources or apply the tolerance bands it uses for the site's verified figures.
Dimensions
How the source classifies its series, with the most frequent values first.
Commodity
- Beans (black)
- Rice (ordinary, second quality)
- Avocados (Hass, medium size)
- Bananas (medium size)
- Lemons (Criollo, medium size)
- Lemons (Persa, medium size)
- Melons (cantaloupe)
- Oranges (Piña)
Market
- La Terminal
- Central de mayoreo CENMA
- Mercado La Placita
- National Average
Price type
- Wholesale
- Retail
Notes
The US dollar price is WFP's own conversion, not Advance Guatemala's. WFP dates each month on the 15th and marks all these values as actual. The World Bank derives its real-time estimates from these prices.
Series
Every series in the dataset. Open one to see its data points, each with its source link.