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Commodity Markets Outlook -- Report Archive

IssueReports*Supporting dataSpecial focus
2025 - AprilPDFZip> Commodity Price Synchronization: A New Era?
2024 - OctPDFZip> Forecasting industrial commodity prices: An assessment
2024 - AprilPDFZip> Forecasting industrial commodity prices: An assessment
2023 - OctPDFZip> Potential near-term implications of the conflict in the Middle East for commodity markets: A preliminary assessment
2023 - AprilPDFZip> Forecasting industrial commodity prices
2022 - OctPDFZip> Pandemic, war, recession: Drivers of aluminum and copper prices
2022 - AprPDFZip> The Impact of the War in Ukraine on Commodity Markets
2021 - OctPDFZip> Urbanization and commodity demand
2021 - AprilPDFZip> Causes and consequences of metal price shocks
2020 - OctPDFZip> Persistence of commodity shocks
2020 - AprilPDFZip> A shock like no other: The impact of COVID-19 on commodity markets
> Set up to fail? The collapse of commodity agreements
2019 - OctPDFZip> The role of substitution in commodity demand
> Oil market implications of the strike on Saudi Aramco facilities
2019 - AprilPDFZip> Food price shocks: channels and implications
2018 - OctPDFZip> Shifts in commodity demand over the past 20 years
> The implications of tariffs for commodity markets
2018 - AprilPDFExcel> Oil exporters: Policies and challenges
2017 - Oct*Excel 
2017 - April*Excel 
2017 - Jan*Excel> Investment weakness in commodity exporters
2016 - Oct*Excel> OPEC in historical context: Commodity agreements and market fundamentals
2016 - July*Excel> Energy and food prices: Moving in tandem?
2016 - Apr*Excel> Resource development in era of cheap commodities
2016 - Jan*Excel> Weak growth in emerging market economies: What does it imply for commodity markets?
2015 - Oct*Excel> Understanding El Niño: What does it mean for commodity markets?
> Iran Nuclear Agreement: A game changer for energy markets?
2015 - July*Excel> China and India in global commodity markets
2015 - April*Excel> Anatomy of the last four oil price crashes
2015 - Jan*Excel> Oil price plunge in perspective
2014 - Oct*  > Role of income growth in commodities
2014 - July*  > Price volatility returns to historical norms
2014 - April*    
2014 - Jan*  > Oil price volatility

* Please contact commodities@worldbank.org for information on these issues of the publication.

 Earlier Issues (monthly and analytical)
20132013Q1,   2013Q3,   2013Q4
2012Jan,   Feb,   Jun  •  2012H1,  2012H2
2011Feb,   Mar,   Apr,   May,   Jun,   Jul,   Oct,   Nov,   Dec  •  2011H1,  2011H2
2010Jan,   Feb,   Mar,   Apr,   May,   Aug,   Sep,   Oct,   Nov,   Dec  •  2010H1
2009Jan,   Feb,   Mar,   Apr,   May,   Jun,   Sep,   Oct,   Nov,   Dec  •  2009H1
2008Jan,   Feb,   Apr,   Jul,   Aug,   Sep,   Oct,   Nov,   Dec
2007Mar,   Apr,   Jun,   Aug,   Sep,   Oct,   Nov,   Dec
2006Jan,   Feb,   Mar,   Apr,   May,   Jun,   Jul,   Aug,   Sep,   Oct,   Nov,   Dec
2005Jan,   Feb,   Mar,   Apr,   May,   Jun,   Jul,   Aug,   Sep,   Oct,   Nov,   Dec
20042004Q3
2003Jan,   Feb,   Apr,   May,   Jun,   Jul,   Sep,   Nov,   Dec  •   2003Q1
2002Jan,   Feb,   Mar,   Apr,   May,   Jun,   Jul,   Sep,   Oct,   Nov,   Dec  •   2002Q1
2001Dec  •  2001Q1
2000Jan,   Feb,  Apr  •  2000Q2
1999Jan,   Feb,   Mar,   Apr,   May,   Jun,   Jul,   Aug,   Sep,   Oct,   Nov,   Dec  •  1999Q2,  1999Q3,  1999Q4
19981998Q1,   1998Q2,   1998Q3,   1998Q4
19971997Q1,   1997Q2,   1997Q3,   1997Q4
19961996Q1,   1996Q2,   1996Q3,   1996Q4
19951995Q1,   1995Q2,   1995Q3
19941994Q4