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imf_commodity

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

Name: International Monetary Fund — Primary Commodity Price System (PCPS), redistributed via DBnomics
Creator: International Monetary Fund
License: http://datahelp.imf.org/tos

Open · redistributeddbnomics-passthrough-imf_commodityCommodities

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

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), redistributed via DBnomics. Retrieved from https://db.nomics.world/IMF. 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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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets