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Economic, investment and financial data provide vital measurements of economies' health, overall development and capacity for growth. This collection of thematic insights explores critical dimensions of national accounts, economic potential and price signals.

Surging fuel prices lift Commodity Price Index further

UN Trade and Development, UNCTADstat.

The index has been modified in September 2025 to now only take data from automated sources, leading to (in general) small changes. Please read the methodology note for more information. The tables of individual prices have been discontinued.

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In October 2026, year-on-year growth in the UNCTAD Commodity Price Index accelerated further – to 42.4% from 38.9% in September.

This acceleration was primarily driven by a continued surge of fuel prices, with the growth rate increasing from 57.4% to 76.5%. Growth in agricultural raw material prices also accelerated, albeit at a slower pace (September: +17.1%, October: +20.1%), while growth in minerals, ores and metals slowed markedly.

Data updated on 13 Nov 2026

Commodity prices rose by 1.5% in 2025; the index excluding fuels hit a record high

UNCTAD Commodity Price Index, 2015=100

UN Trade and Development, UNCTADstat.

The index has been modified in September 2025 to now only take data from sources accessible through automated online extraction routines, leading to (in general) small differences in the index values. The tables of individual commodity prices have been discontinued.

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The UNCTAD Commodity Price index recorded a modest rebound in 2025 (+1.5%), following a slight decline in the previous year. This recovery was driven by minerals, ores and metals (+27.3%), while fuel prices declined (-8.7%) and prices of food and agricultural raw materials remained almost unchanged. The index excluding fuels reached its highest level on record in the 30-year history of the series.

Data updated on 10 Feb 2026

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The price index is a fixed-base Laspeyres index, where the weights are proportional to the individual commodities' shares in total merchandise exports of developing economies in the base period. The base period comprises the years 2014, 2015 and 2016.
The index was updated in 2025 to only consider prices from publicly available sources that were machine-readable.

The annual price is calculated as an average of the monthly quotations at a main market place of the respective commodity.

The monthly price is calculated as an average of daily or weekly quotations at a main market place of the respective commodity.

For further details, see this methodological note.

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