IMF Primary Commodity Prices
Primary Commodity Prices
Data on Primary Commodity Prices are updated monthly based on the IMF’s Primary Commodity Price System.
Updated: November 6, 2025
Indices and Market Prices
Commodity Data Portal
Use the Commodity Data Portal to visualize and chart the prices of 68 commodities from four commodity asset classes: energy, agriculture, fertilizers, and metals.
Share, export, and download data using the interactive portal.
Commodity Terms of Trade
The database includes a set of country-specific commodity-price based indices for 182 economies from 1962.
For each country, the change in the international price of up to 45 individual commodities is weighted using commodity-level trade data.
Special Feature
The Commodity Special Feature is part of the World Economic Outlook publication and covers commodity market developments and outlook, and analyzes a special issue.
Recent Issues
- October 2024: Commodity Special Feature: Market Developments and the Inflationary Effects of Metal Supply Shocks
- October 2024 - Commodity Special Feature: Online Annex
- April 2024: Market Developments and the Power of Prices
- October 2023: Market Developments and the Commodity Price Channel of Monetary Policy
- April 2023: Market Developments and the Macroeconomic Impact of Declines in Fossil Fuel Extraction
- October 2022: Market Developments and Food Price Inflation Drivers
- October 2022: Annex of Food Price inflation Drivers
- April 2022: Market Developments and the Pace of Fossil Fuel Divestment
- October 2021: Clean Energy Transition and Metals: Blessing or Bottleneck
- April 2021: Food Security: Unintended Consequence of the Pandemic?
Related Links
Find the latest blogs by the Commodities Unit and other useful links related to commodities.
- Working Paper: Beyond Energy: Inflationary Effects of Metals Price Shocks in Production Networks
- IMF Research on Commodities
- The impact of climate policy on oil and gas investment: Evidence from firm-level data
- Working Paper: The Power of Prices: How Fast Do Commodity Markets Adjust to Shocks?
- Working Paper: Monetary Policy Transmission through Commodity Prices
- Blog: Global Food Prices to Remain Elevated Amid War, Costly Energy, La Niña
- Blog: War-Fueled Surge in Food Prices to Hit Poorer Nations Hardest
- Market Size and Supply Disruptions: Sharing the Pain of a Potential Russian Gas Shut-off to the European Union
- Blog: How a Russian Natural Gas Cutoff Could Weigh on Europe’s Economies
- Working Paper: Energy Transition Metals
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