The International Coffee Organization launched a free online data platform on 30 September 2026 that puts its figures on coffee prices, trade, production and consumption in one place. The ICO announced the tool, the Coffee Market Intelligence Platform, at data.ico.org in press release 365/26, issued from Geneva during the 142nd session of the International Coffee Council. The launch came a day before 1 October, which the release describes as the first International Coffee Day recognized by the United Nations.
The ICO's own description of the platform is short and plain: a "free-to-view interactive tool that combines daily market indicators and data on monthly trade, annual production and consumption." Nick Brown of Daily Coffee News reported the launch on 30 September, the same day the release went out.
What does the platform show?
According to the ICO's release, the platform carries the daily ICO Composite Indicator Price, known as the I-CIP, along with four group indicators that follow different groups of coffee. It also carries New York arabica and London robusta futures prices, monthly stocks certified by the exchanges, trade flows country by country, and annual production and consumption figures. The I-CIP is the ICO's blended benchmark price for green coffee, the raw seed before roasting. Daily Coffee News reported that the trade data sits on an interactive 3D globe that can be filtered by origin, destination, form of coffee, species and processing method.
What is free, and what still costs money?
The current year's prices and stock data are free to anyone, according to the ICO, along with aggregated trade and production statistics for the current and previous years. Historical data reaching back to 1963 is open to ICO members. Commercial users can buy an annual statistical subscription that covers detailed historical data and bulk datasets.
So the newest numbers are open to everyone and the long record is not. That record runs back more than sixty years.
Why did the ICO build it?
Vanúsia Nogueira, the ICO's executive director, gave the reason in the release. "Good data cannot eliminate volatility, but it can reduce uncertainty," she said. Daily Coffee News quoted her continuing: "When stakeholders work from a shared and credible evidence base, they can make better decisions." The 30 September 2026 release also quotes her saying that coffee "provides livelihoods for at least 12.5 million families."
What do the ICO's latest published numbers say?
The ICO's newest monthly Coffee Market Report, for August 2026, is still the latest report the organization lists on its market report page. These are the figures read off that report, each with the period it covers:
- The I-CIP averaged 287.29 US cents per pound in August 2026, according to the ICO's August report, against 287.26 cents in July 2026. That works out to about $2.87 for a pound of green coffee, before it is roasted or bagged.
- Daily I-CIP readings in August 2026 ranged from 279.38 to 301.97 US cents per pound, the ICO reported, a swing of about 22.6 cents inside a single month.
- World green bean exports totaled 10.76 million bags in July 2026, the ICO reported, up 6.3% on the 10.12 million bags exported in July 2025.
- The ICO estimated world production for coffee year 2025/26 at 183.6 million bags, up 4.4%, and estimated that consumption would fall 0.8%. The ICO counts in 60 kilogram bags, so its production estimate is roughly 11 million metric tons of green coffee.
- The same August 2026 report projected a world surplus of 3.0 million bags for 2025/26. That figure is a projection, not a measured total.
The futures market moved more sharply than the monthly average in late September, and that move is reported in why arabica coffee prices rebounded. Conab's record crop estimate for Brazil is reported in how big Brazil's 2026 coffee harvest is, and the longer background on green prices is in why coffee is still so expensive.
Who is not in the ICO?
The platform reports world totals, and the ICO's membership is not the whole world. Daily Coffee News reported on 30 September 2026 that the organization has 49 members representing 75 countries. Of those, 42 are exporting members, Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Indonesia and Ethiopia among them, and seven are importing members: the European Union, Japan, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Tunisia and the United Kingdom.
The same report listed the United States, Uganda, Guatemala, Canada, China, South Korea and Australia among the countries that are not members. The United Nations, citing the Food and Agriculture Organization, names the European Union and the United States as the largest importing and consuming markets for coffee. One of those two sits outside the ICO.
Why is International Coffee Day on 1 October?
ICO members agreed in 2014 to observe a common International Coffee Day on 1 October, according to the United Nations page for the observance, and the UN General Assembly later designated the day through resolution 80/248. VietnamPlus, the English-language news site of the Vietnam News Agency, reported on 11 March 2026 that the resolution was adopted on 10 March 2026. It reported that Brazil proposed it with a core group of 18 countries and that 97 member states co-sponsored it.
The UN page also sets out the farming base behind the day. Up to 25 million coffee-farming households produce about 80% of the world's coffee, according to the FAO figures the UN page cites, which carry no year on that page as read on 1 October 2026, and Brazil, Vietnam and Colombia are the largest producing countries. The ICO's figure of at least 12.5 million families and the FAO's figure of up to 25 million households are stated on different bases, one a floor and one a ceiling.
The ICO opened its numbers to the public the day before that first UN-recognized observance. Its newest monthly market report covers August.
Photograph: Yasin Onus, Unsplash.
