The FAO Vegetable Oil Price Index increased 2.1% to 168.6 points in January 2026, the highest in three months, reflecting higher world prices of palm, soy and sunflower oils, which more than offset lower rapeseed oil quotations. source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Oils Price Index in World averaged 93.89 Index Points from 1990 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 251.80 Index Points in March of 2022 and a record low of 35.80 Index Points in February of 2001. This page includes a chart with historical data for World Oils Price Index. World Vegetable Oil Price Index - values, historical data and charts - was last updated on February of 2026.

Related	Last	Previous	Unit	Reference
Cereals Price Index	107.50	107.30	Index Points	Jan 2026
Dairy Price Index	121.80	128.20	Index Points	Jan 2026
FAO Food Price Index	123.90	124.30	Index Points	Jan 2026
Meat Price Index	123.80	124.20	Index Points	Jan 2026
Oils Price Index	168.60	165.20	Index Points	Jan 2026
Sugar Price Index	89.80	90.70	Index Points	Jan 2026

World Vegetable Oil Price Index

The vegetable oil price index is based on 10 quotations for soybean, sunflower, rapeseed, groundnut, cottonseed, copra, palm kernel, palm, linseed and castor oil. Prices are weighted by trade shares of the base period 2002–04.