What is the price of ham per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica ham is between US$ 7.43 and US$ 9.81 per kilogram or between US$ 3.37 and US$ 4.45 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of ham in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for ham is between CRC 4,039.47 and CRC 5,334.17 per kilogram or between CRC 1,831.96 and CRC 2,419.12 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2025, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica ham is between US$ 5.20 and US$ 6.87 per kilogram or between US$ 2.36 and US$ 3.12 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica ham - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The volume of ham shipped by Costa Rica in 2020 was 269 metric tons. In 2019 Costa Rica exported 32 tonnes of ham. In 2019 alone, the demand for Costa Rica ham (meat category) has improved, with a change of 300 per cent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, ham's exports grew by 77.78% bringing the exporter US$0.10m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's ham exports are categorised as:
- Hams, shoulders and cuts thereof of swine, salted, in brine, dried or smoked, with bone in (HS code 021011)
- Hams of swine and cuts thereof, prepared or preserved (HS code 160241)
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Costa Rica ham export values
In 2019, Costa Rica exported ham worth 0.10m USD, an improvement of 85.19% from 2018's total ham export of 0.054m USD. The yearly change in value of Costa Rica ham between 2017 to 2018 was -49.057 per cent.
The annual/yearly change in the quantity of Costa Rica's ham exports between 2017 and 2019 was 77.78% compared to a variation of 300% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Costa Rica's share of the world's total ham's exports in 2019 was less than 1%. Costa Rica is ranked number 24 in world exports of ham.
Export markets for Costa Rica ham ( in '000$ )
Import/Export Trends
Costa Rica is a net exporter of ham. The annual growth of Costa Rica ham in value between 2015 to 2019 was 16%, per year, while annual growth in quantity during the same period was 16%, per annum.
Costa Rica purchased 220 tonnes of ham in 2019.