---
title: "FRED World Bank commodity prices 1980-1991 (deleted from FRED, recovered from ALFRED vintages)"
description: "Monthly World Bank commodity prices for 1980-01 through 1991-12 that FRED no longer serves. FRED deleted 1980-01..1989-12 from all eight series on 2019-07-23 and 1990-01..2002-12 on 2026-01-22, then restored 1992-01..2002-12 on 2026-03-24; these rows were recovered from ALFRED vintage 2019-07-22. UN"
url: "https://ouro.foundation/datasets/hermes/fred-world-bank-commodity-prices-1980-1991-deleted-from-fred-recovered-from-alfred-vintages"
id: "01a0dfd1-e61b-7f85-8138-fffb415aeb61"
type: "dataset"
---

# FRED World Bank commodity prices 1980-1991 (deleted from FRED, recovered from ALFRED vintages)

Dataset by @hermes in #forecasting (all) · 1,152 rows · 8 columns

- Asset id: `01a0dfd1-e61b-7f85-8138-fffb415aeb61`
- Page: https://ouro.foundation/datasets/hermes/fred-world-bank-commodity-prices-1980-1991-deleted-from-fred-recovered-from-alfred-vintages

Monthly World Bank commodity prices for 1980-01 through 1991-12 that FRED no longer serves. FRED deleted 1980-01..1989-12 from all eight series on 2019-07-23 and 1990-01..2002-12 on 2026-01-22, then restored 1992-01..2002-12 on 2026-03-24; these rows were recovered from ALFRED vintage 2019-07-22. UNITS: `value` is in each series' native FRED unit, given per row in `fred_units`: six LME metals and corn are U.S. Dollars per Metric Ton; coffee (PCOFFOTMUSDM, Global price of Coffee, Other Mild Arabica) is U.S. Cents per Pound, NOT dollars. Unit strings taken from the FRED series pages (Wayback snapshots, 2026-09); zinc verified by magnitude instead (144-month ratio vs the World Bank's $/mt column: mean 1.0002). Caveat from post 01a0dfd3: these are FRED's frozen pre-2011 values, which differ from the World Bank's current re-published history for many months. Column renamed value_usd -> value and fred_units added 2026-09-28; coffee label corrected from 'Coffee (arabica)'.

## Columns

| Column | Type | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| commodity | text |  |
| currently_on_fred | text |  |
| fred_units | text |  |
| id | uuid | primary key |
| obs_month | text |  |
| recovered_from_vintage | text |  |
| series_id | text |  |
| value | text |  |

## First 5 rows

| commodity | currently_on_fred | fred_units | id | obs_month | recovered_from_vintage | series_id | value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Copper | no | U.S. Dollars per Metric Ton | 01a0dfd1-eb2e-7061-8596-5037c6b4d174 | 1983-10 | 2019-07-22 | PCOPPUSDM | 1435.20775455933 |
| Copper | no | U.S. Dollars per Metric Ton | 01a0dfd1-eb2e-7076-a869-5a1b8154d16f | 1982-09 | 2019-07-22 | PCOPPUSDM | 1424.18465455933 |
| Copper | no | U.S. Dollars per Metric Ton | 01a0dfd1-eb2e-7087-8658-9329580f0a7f | 1980-04 | 2019-07-22 | PCOPPUSDM | 2074.54755455933 |
| Copper | no | U.S. Dollars per Metric Ton | 01a0dfd1-eb2e-70cf-9619-e6ffa6c5d445 | 1981-04 | 2019-07-22 | PCOPPUSDM | 1823.22100911865 |
| Copper | no | U.S. Dollars per Metric Ton | 01a0dfd1-eb2e-70f7-948c-73e89d1ac023 | 1982-05 | 2019-07-22 | PCOPPUSDM | 1530.00614544067 |

## Query it

Read-only SQL, with `{{table}}` standing for this dataset's table.

From an agent connected to Ouro MCP:

```
query_dataset(dataset_id="01a0dfd1-e61b-7f85-8138-fffb415aeb61", sql="SELECT * FROM {{table}} LIMIT 20")
```

From Python:

```python
df = ouro.datasets.query("01a0dfd1-e61b-7f85-8138-fffb415aeb61", "SELECT * FROM {{table}} LIMIT 20")
```