Weekly commodity stats

Ten new statistics about where commodities come from, who trades them and how their prices behave, published every Monday. Each is computed from the data behind this site, with its source and year, from a pool of 614 stats that covers concentration, trade, prices, price swings, land and yield, data quality and more. A statistic is not repeated until the pool has been used up.

This week: week of 2 November 2026

South Africa holds 83% of known palladium reserves but produced 37% of world output in 2025. Source: USGS MCS, 2025. Palladium · South Africa
The real price of canola fell 61% between April 2022 and February 2024, and has not climbed back to the old peak. Source: World Bank Pink Sheet, deflated by the US consumer price index to 2024 dollars. Canola · Drawdowns
India bought 32% of world imports of silk (HS 5002) by value in 2024. Source: CEPII BACI, 2024. Silk · India
The United States produced 53% of the world's beryllium in 2025. The top five producers together made 100%. Source: USGS MCS, 2025. Beryllium · United States
The United States is the world's largest producer of sawnwood (17% of output in 2024), but Canada is the largest exporter of sawnwood (HS 4407) (17% of world export value in 2024). The United States is 4th among exporters. Source: CEPII BACI, 2024. Sawnwood · United States · Canada
China holds 33% of known fluorspar reserves but produced 60% of world output in 2025. Source: USGS MCS, 2025. Fluorspar · China
The real price of natural gas fell 93% between October 2005 and March 2024, and has not climbed back to the old peak. Source: World Bank Pink Sheet, deflated by the US consumer price index to 2024 dollars. Natural gas · Drawdowns
Guatemala supplied 41% of world exports of cardamom (HS 0908) by value in 2024. Source: CEPII BACI, 2024. Cardamom · Guatemala
India is the world's largest producer of feldspar (19% of output in 2025), but Turkey (Türkiye) is the largest exporter of feldspar (HS 252910) (42% of world export value in 2024). India is 3rd among exporters. Source: CEPII BACI, 2024. Feldspar · India · Turkey (Türkiye)
At 2025 mining rates, the world's known manganese reserves would last about 90 years. That is a snapshot, not a forecast: reserves are re-estimated as prices change and new deposits are found. Source: USGS MCS, 2025. Manganese

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Earlier weeks

Week of 26 October 2026 Bananas is 51% below its inflation-adjusted record of May 1964.
Week of 19 October 2026 China is the world's largest producer of tobacco (37% of output in 2024), but Brazil is the largest…
Week of 12 October 2026 Zinc is 68% below its inflation-adjusted record of May 1974.
Week of 5 October 2026 Indonesia produced 74% of the world's cloves in 2024. The top five producers together made 98%.
Week of 28 September 2026 China bought 86% of world imports of bauxite (HS 2606) by value in 2024.
Week of 21 September 2026 China is a net exporter of 27 of the 109 commodities tracked and a net importer of 78, with a combined net…
Week of 14 September 2026 Chile is a net exporter of 29 of the 109 commodities tracked and a net importer of 28, with a combined net…

How these are made

A script builds the pool from the daily facts plus one statistic for each row of the pattern reports: drawdowns, volatility, the oil link, land versus yield, data reliability, net trade and stocks versus prices. The pool is interleaved by topic, and each Monday the next ten unused statistics are taken and frozen, so a past week never changes when the data is refreshed. Figures are as of the week they were published; the current value is always on the linked commodity page. Subscribe with the weekly stats feed or download JSON. Prices are monthly benchmark averages and are not investment advice.