Materials powering
the world economy.
Compare long-run indexed paths for metals, fuels, electricity, precious metals, critical minerals, and food inputs.
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COMPARABILITY
Price, production and power are different
CommoditiesMetals, oil, gas, gold and wheat use representative international price histories, indexed to the selected base year.
ElectricityElectricity is regional and constrained by grids. Its series is a broad generation-cost/price proxy, not one globally traded spot contract.
SourcesReference families include the World Bank Commodity Price Data, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. EIA and IEA. Values are educational normalized snapshots, not executable prices.