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World Food and Energy Commodity Prices
World Bank commodity price indexes, 2010 = 100
2 of 3 series are above their level a year earlier
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Global wholesale prices for food, energy and fertilizer from the World Bank Pink Sheet. Fertilizer and energy feed into food costs months later.
What this chart reads
- World Bank Food Commodity Price Index (Monthly)as “Food”latest 2026-09-01
- World Bank Energy Price Index (Monthly)as “Energy”latest 2026-09-01
- World Bank Fertilizer Price Index (Monthly)as “Fertilizers”latest 2026-09-01
Sources
World Bank Food Commodity Price Index (Monthly). Source: World Bank, Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), monthly prices in nominal US dollars, file CMO-Historical-Data-Monthly.xlsx from worldbank.org/en/research/commodity-markets. Licensed CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Data Catalog, dataset 0038238, "Commodity Prices - History and Projections"). Attribution: Source: World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet). The World Bank compiles the monthly averages from third-party quotations it names for each series (exchanges, industry bodies and data vendors). Not endorsed by the World Bank. Refreshed daily; the World Bank updates the file on the second business day of each month.
World Bank Energy Price Index (Monthly). Source: World Bank, Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), monthly prices in nominal US dollars, file CMO-Historical-Data-Monthly.xlsx from worldbank.org/en/research/commodity-markets. Licensed CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Data Catalog, dataset 0038238, "Commodity Prices - History and Projections"). Attribution: Source: World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet). The World Bank compiles the monthly averages from third-party quotations it names for each series (exchanges, industry bodies and data vendors). Not endorsed by the World Bank. Refreshed daily; the World Bank updates the file on the second business day of each month.
World Bank Fertilizer Price Index (Monthly). Source: World Bank, Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), monthly prices in nominal US dollars, file CMO-Historical-Data-Monthly.xlsx from worldbank.org/en/research/commodity-markets. Licensed CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Data Catalog, dataset 0038238, "Commodity Prices - History and Projections"). Attribution: Source: World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet). The World Bank compiles the monthly averages from third-party quotations it names for each series (exchanges, industry bodies and data vendors). Not endorsed by the World Bank. Refreshed daily; the World Bank updates the file on the second business day of each month.
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