Shrimp
8.60US$/kg▼ 1.3% vs Sept 2023
Latest observation Oct 2023 · no newer data published
- Latest
- 8.60
- Change
- +501.4%
- Year on year
- −25.0%
- High
- 19.25 Aug 2014
- Low
- 1.43 Jan 1960
- Average
- 9.57
- Volatility
- 16.6%
Shrimp is 8.60 US$/kg (Oct 2023), 501.4% higher than in Jan 1960. Over the last year: −25.0%.
What is this?
The world market price of shrimp (US$/kg).
Prawns are a traditional Mozambican export; this is a US market benchmark, not the price Mozambican exporters receive.
How to read it
Higher means the commodity sells for more on world markets.
Unit: US$/kg.
Measure: Global benchmark price.
What does the data say?
Shrimp is 8.60 US$/kg (Oct 2023), 501.4% higher than in Jan 1960. Over the last year: −25.0%.
Over all 766 observations since Jan 1960, the highest was 19.25 (Aug 2014) and the lowest 1.43 (Jan 1960).
The latest observation is from Oct 2023; the source has not published anything newer.
Why does it matter?
- Households: Affects local prices only where Mozambique imports the product.
- Businesses: Exporters earn more when world prices rise; importers pay more.
- Government: Royalties and export taxes move with world prices.
- Investors: Commodity exposure of Mozambique's exports.
- Mobile money: Indirect; mainly through incomes in producing regions.
Observed facts are above; these are possible implications, not measured effects.
What should I watch?
Data source
- Source
- World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet)
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Observations
- 766 (Jan 1960 – Oct 2023)
- Source published
- 2026-10-02
- Last retrieved
- 2026-10-17
- Method
- Monthly average in nominal US dollars. Column "Shrimps, Mexican" ($/kg).
- Limitations
- A world market price, not the price Mozambican producers or exporters actually receive, nor the export unit value in customs data.
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