What is the price of beef per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica beef is between US$ 10.30 and US$ 14.60 per kilogram or between US$ 4.67 and US$ 6.62 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of beef in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for beef is between CRC 5,597.57 and CRC 7,933.01 per kilogram or between CRC 2,538.58 and CRC 3,597.74 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2025, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica beef is between US$ 7.21 and US$ 10.22 per kilogram or between US$ 3.27 and US$ 4.63 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica beef - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The amount of beef exported by Costa Rica in 2020 was 30,472 tonnes. In 2019 Costa Rica exported 27,941 tonnes of beef. For 2019 alone, the market for Costa Rica beef (meat category) has surged, with a change of 39.447 per cent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, beef's exports increased by 54.15 pc netting the country US$111.51m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's beef exports are classified as:
- Frozen edible bovine tongues (HS code 020621)
- Fresh or chilled edible offal of bovine animals (HS code 020610)
- Frozen bovine cuts, with bone in (excluding carcases and half-carcases) (HS code 020220)
- Frozen, boneless meat of bovine animals (HS code 020230)
- Frozen bovine carcases and half-carcases (HS code 020210)
- Frozen edible bovine livers (HS code 020622)
- Fresh or chilled bovine meat, boneless (HS code 020130)
- Fresh or chilled bovine cuts, with bone in (excluding carcases and 1/2 carcases) (HS code 020120)
- Carcases or half-carcases of bovine animals, fresh or chilled (HS code 020110)
- Frozen edible bovine offal (excluding tongues and livers) (HS code 020629)
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Costa Rica beef export values
In 2019, Costa Rica exported beef valued at 111.51m USD, an increment of 53.43% from 2018's total beef export of 72.676m USD. The yearly change in value of Costa Rica beef between 2017 to 2018 was 2.353%.
The annual variation in the amount of Costa Rica's beef exports between 2017 and 2019 was 54.15 percent when compared to a variation of 39.447% in the growth rate between 2018 and 2019.
Costa Rica's stake of the world's total beef's exports in 2019 was 8.6 percent. Costa Rica is ranked number 2 in world exports of beef.
Export markets for Costa Rica beef ( in '000$ )
Costa Rica's best performing destinations for beef are China, Hong Kong, Honduras, United Kingdom (UK) and Guatemala.
Import/Export Trends
Costa Rica is a net exporter of beef. The annual growth of Costa Rica beef in value between 2015 to 2019 was -7%, per annum, while annual growth in quantity during the same period was -4%, per annum.
Costa Rica brought in 8,809 tonnes of beef in 2019.