What is the price of chicken meat per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica chicken meat is between US$ 3.08 and US$ 8.74 per kilogram or between US$ 1.40 and US$ 3.96 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of chicken meat in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for chicken meat is between CRC 1,672.24 and CRC 4,751.28 per kilogram or between CRC 758.39 and CRC 2,154.78 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2025, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica chicken meat is between US$ 2.15 and US$ 6.12 per kilogram or between US$ 0.98 and US$ 2.78 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica chicken meat - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The quantity of chicken meat exported by Costa Rica in 2020 was 2,101 tonnes. In 2019 Costa Rica exported 1,842 tonnes of chicken meat. Through 2019 alone, the interest in Costa Rica chicken meat (meat category) has decreased, flactuating by -12.701 % compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, chicken meat's exports grew by 7.34 pc earning the exporter US$5.08m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's chicken meat exports are classified as:
- Frozen fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, not cut in pieces (HS code 020712)
- Meat or offal of fowls of the species "Gallus domesticus", prepared or preserved (excluding sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight of <= 250 g, preparations of liver and meat extracts and juices) (HS code 160232)
- Fresh or chilled cuts and edible offal of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus (HS code 020713)
- Fresh or chilled fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, not cut in pieces (HS code 020711)
- Frozen cuts and edible offal of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus (HS code 020714)
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Costa Rica chicken meat export values
In 2019, Costa Rica supplied chicken meat with a value of 5.08m USD, a decrease of -10.29% from 2018's total chicken meat export of 5.663m USD. The annual change in value of Costa Rica chicken meat between 2017 to 2018 was 22.311 pc.
The yearly change in the amount of Costa Rica's chicken meat exports between 2017 and 2019 was 7.34% in comparison to a variation of -12.701% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Costa Rica chicken meat ( in '000$ )
Costa Rica's leading destinations for chicken meat are Honduras, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Costa Rica ordered 12,566 tonnes of chicken meat in 2019.