Monthly commodity benchmarks and price history
70 monthly series cover eight commodity categories, with history back to 1960 and units as published. Source: The World Bank: World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), CC BY 4.0
70 monthly series cover eight commodity categories, with history back to 1960 and units as published. Source: The World Bank: World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), CC BY 4.0
What changed
- Added monthly benchmarks to the existing physical series endpoints for discovery, details, latest prices and observations. REST and MCP use the same series IDs.
- Coverage spans softs, oils and oilseeds, metals, grains, energy, fertilizers, forestry, and livestock and dairy. All prices use USD, with published units and quantities preserved.
- The latest available month is September 2026. Some series start later or have ended. Each series reports its own coverage dates.
- Added the historical commodity prices API page, copper response examples and the complete monthly benchmark coverage list.
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