World sugar price

There is no single sugar price. The world raw sugar price is set in Brazil, India and Thailand and traded through the ICE Sugar No. 11 contract; the EU and the United States protect their beet and cane growers with tariffs and quotas, so their prices sit on their own level. The World Bank publishes all three as monthly averages, and the European Commission publishes the price of white sugar sold inside the EU.

World, EU and US sugar prices

The world raw sugar price averaged 19.50 US cents per pound in Oct 2026 (about $430 per tonne). Over the past ten years it ranged from 10.43¢ in Apr 2020 to 26.31¢ in Sept 2023. Prices are World Bank monthly averages, converted from US dollars per kilogram.

EU white sugar price

White sugar sold inside the EU averaged €500 per tonne ex-works in Aug 2026, −6.7% on a year earlier, as reported by member states to the European Commission. Since quotas ended in 2017 the EU price follows the world white sugar market more closely, with a lag of several months because much sugar is sold on annual contracts.

What moves the world sugar price

Brazilian mills choose between sugar and ethanol from the same cane, so crude oil and the Brazilian real set a floor and a ceiling for raw sugar. Brent averaged $125.00/bbl in Oct 2026 (+93.2% on a year); the real traded at 5.6637 per US dollar on 13 Nov 2026 (+7.2% on a year). A weaker real makes sugar exports more profitable in local currency and tends to weigh on New York prices. India’s export policy and the monsoon decide how much Asian sugar reaches the world market; the balance behind all of it is on the world sugar stocks-to-use page.

Sources

Monthly prices: World Bank Commodity Price Data (Pink Sheet), CC BY 4.0. EU white sugar: European Commission sugar price reporting. Exchange rate: ECB euro reference rates. Wheats provides information aggregation, not trading recommendations. See also ICE Sugar No. 11 futures.