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World Bank Pink Sheet (commodities)

Open · redistributedCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)commodities

FULL-COVERAGE ingest of the World Bank "Pink Sheet" (Commodity Markets). Two workbooks downloaded from https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/commodity-markets : * CMO-Historical-Data-Monthly.xlsx -> sheets "Monthly Prices", "Monthly Indices" * CMO-Historical-Data-Annual.xlsx -> sheets "Annual…

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

Coverage

Series catalogued
26
Temporal coverage
1960-01-01 – 2026-05-01
Frequencies
Monthly
Distinct geographies
1
Categories
commodities
Measured observations
93,495

Licensing & provenance

License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
License URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Required attribution
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (CC BY 4.0)
Redistribution
Permitted (served here)
Commercial use
Yes
Modification
Permitted

How to cite

World Bank, Commodity Price Data (the Pink Sheet). Retrieved from https://www.worldbank.org/commodities. 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 worldbank_pink series as CSV →
API
Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing
https://econdatalibrary.com/worldbank_pink.html
Update cadence
monthly
Update strategy
bulk snapshot if changed
Storage layout
6 grouped parquet files (one per sheet) under data/clean_full/worldbank_pink/: m_price, m_index, a_price, a_index_nominal, a_price_real, a_index_real (schema series_key, obs_date date32, value). Plus _manifest.json with per-series catalog + vintage. Raw xlsx cached in data/raw/worldbank_pink/.

Full description

FULL-COVERAGE ingest of the World Bank "Pink Sheet" (Commodity Markets). Two workbooks downloaded from https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/commodity-markets : * CMO-Historical-Data-Monthly.xlsx -> sheets "Monthly Prices", "Monthly Indices" * CMO-Historical-Data-Annual.xlsx -> sheets "Annual Prices (Nominal)", "Annual Indices (Nominal)", "Annual Prices (Real)", "Annual Indices (Real)" We parse ALL commodity columns (energy, agriculture, fertilizers, metals, precious metals) AND all the price-index columns, for every frequency / nominal-real variant. GROUPED storage (mirrors jobs/ingest_eurostat.py + jobs/ingest_worldbank_esg.py): ONE Parquet per SHEET (the natural "dataset"); every commodity / index column is a series inside it -> long columns (series_key, obs_date, value). 6 sheets => 6 grouped Parquet files for the whole source. Never one-file-per-series. series_key = "<freq>:<variant>:<slug>" e.g. "m:price:crude_oil_brent", "m:index:energy", "a:price_real:gold", "a:index_nominal:precious_metals". The slug is a stable URL-safe id derived from the commodity / index label. SHEET LAYOUTS (observed June-2026 monthly / March-2026 annual vintage): Monthly Prices : names row 5, units row 6, data row 7+ ; period col A = "YYYYMmm". Monthly Indices : staggered header rows 6-9 (one non-blank cell per column), data row 10+ ; period col A = "YYYYMmm". Annual Prices (*) : names row 7, units row 8, data row 9+ ; period col A = year. Annual Indices(*) : staggered header rows 6-9, data row 10+ ; period col A = year. Missing values are the replacement char U+FFFD (shows as a box) or non-numeric -> skipped. License: cc-by-4.0 (reservable id from configs/sources.yaml -> worldbank_pink). Does NOT touch data/catalog.db or data/clean/ (per task constraints). Run: python jobs/ingest_worldbank_pink.py --dry # parse, print per-series summary, no writes python jobs/ingest_worldbank_pink.py # full run -> data/clean_full/worldbank_pink/ python jobs/ingest_worldbank_pink.py --no-download # reuse already-downloaded xlsx

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)
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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)
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