Commodity stats: week of 12 October 2026

1. Zinc is 68% below its inflation-adjusted record of May 1974. Source: World Bank Pink Sheet, deflated by the US consumer price index to 2024 dollars. Zinc · Real prices
2. China produced 52% of the world's coal in 2025. The top five producers together made 82%. Source: Energy Institute, 2025. Coal · China
3. India is the world's largest producer of mangoes (45% of output in 2024), but Thailand is the largest exporter of mangoes (HS 080450) (18% of world export value in 2024). India is 7th among exporters. Source: CEPII BACI, 2024. Mangoes · India · Thailand
4. Australia holds 32% of known manganese reserves but produced 8% of world output in 2025. Source: USGS MCS, 2025. Manganese · Australia
5. World production of yams in 2024 was 12 times what it was in 1961: 92.4 million tonnes against 8 million tonnes. Source: FAOSTAT, 2024. Yams
6. Oranges is 73% below its inflation-adjusted record of December 2024. Source: World Bank Pink Sheet, deflated by the US consumer price index to 2024 dollars. Oranges · Real prices
7. China bought 86% of world imports of unwrought beryllium (HS 811212) by value in 2024. Source: CEPII BACI, 2024. Beryllium · China
8. Brazil produced 36% of the world's soybeans in 2024. The top five producers together made 87%. Source: FAOSTAT, 2024. Soybeans · Brazil
9. At 2025 mining rates, the world's known niobium reserves would last about 191 years. That is a snapshot, not a forecast: reserves are re-estimated as prices change and new deposits are found. Source: USGS MCS, 2025. Niobium
10. World production of tomatoes in 2024 was 6.9 times what it was in 1961: 188.3 million tonnes against 27.2 million tonnes. Source: FAOSTAT, 2024. Tomatoes

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Generated 2026-10-12 from the data as it stood then. Prices are monthly benchmark averages and are not investment advice.