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imf_commodity

International Monetary Fund — Primary Commodity Price System (PCPS), redistributed via DBnomics

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IMF Primary Commodity Prices (PCPS). Source: IMF PCPS (Primary Commodity Price System) https://www.imf.org/en/Research/commodity-prices License: IMF data Terms of Use (free for research) Coverage: 1,236 series; energy, metals, food, beverages, agricultural raw materials; monthly/quarterly/annual,…

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued
1,236
Temporal coverage
1990-01-01 – 2025-06-01
Categories
Commodities

Licensing & provenance

License
dbnomics-passthrough-imf_commodity
License URL
http://datahelp.imf.org/tos
Required attribution
Source: International Monetary Fund, Primary Commodity Price System (PCPS), via DBnomics.
Redistribution
Permitted (served here)
Commercial use
Restricted / no
Modification
Permitted
Provider homepage
https://db.nomics.world/IMF
Provider terms
http://datahelp.imf.org/tos

How to cite

International Monetary Fund — Primary Commodity Price System (PCPS). Retrieved directly from the IMF SDMX API (api.imf.org). Observations first ingested before July 2026 were originally obtained via the DBnomics aggregation of the same IMF dataset; the series were since re-pointed to the IMF's own API with identical ids and values (value-agreement proven per indicator). Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download
Select & download imf_commodity series as CSV →
API
Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing
https://econdatalibrary.com/imf_commodity
Update cadence
monthly
Automated refresh
live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy
overwrite if changed
Storage layout
single parquet: data/clean_full/imf_commodity/imf_commodity.parquet. Schema series_key(str), obs_date(date32), value(float64). series_key = IMF_COMMODITY:<series_code>. (Companion _log/_err text files in same dir are run logs, not data.)

Full description

IMF Primary Commodity Prices (PCPS). Source: IMF PCPS (Primary Commodity Price System) https://www.imf.org/en/Research/commodity-prices License: IMF data Terms of Use (free for research) Coverage: 1,236 series; energy, metals, food, beverages, agricultural raw materials; monthly/quarterly/annual, 1980-present (~70 commodities) series_key: IMF_COMMODITY:{series_code} e.g. IMF_COMMODITY:M.W00.POILBRE.USD (monthly, Brent crude oil, USD) Output: data/clean_full/imf_commodity/imf_commodity.parquet Run: python jobs/ingest_imf_commodity.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)
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