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commodities

physical markets ranked by indicative annual production value — energy first, metals tight, agriculture broad.

prompts 20
energy share ~71%
top line crude
battery metals li+co
20 commodities · illustrative
all energy metals ag & softs

share of modeled production value

energy agriculture industrial + precious metals battery materials

rolled-up from the 20-row table — rough shares for visual balance, not a statistical release.

top five by value

crude oil
$2.7T
natural gas
$0.92T
coal
$0.88T
iron ore
$0.26T
gold
$0.24T

top 20 · annual production value (modeled)

# commodity bucket prod. value benchmark volume
1crude oilenergy$2.7Tbrent+wti blend4.2B t/yr
2natural gasenergy$0.92Tpipeline lng4.0T m³
3coalenergy$0.88Tthermal + met8.5B t
4iron oreindustrial$0.26T62% fe benchmark2.5B t
5goldprecious$0.24Tmine + scrap~3.6k t
6copperbase$0.18Trefined26M t
7aluminumbase$0.16Tprimary69M t
8nickelbase$0.045Tclass-13.3M t
9lithiumbattery$0.018Tchem. equiv.180k t le
10cobaltbattery$0.012Tmine190k t
11wheatag$0.11Tglobal harvest780M t
12cornag$0.21Tfeed + fuel1.2B t
13riceag$0.14Tmilled equiv.520M t
14soybeansag$0.13Tbeans + meal390M t
15coffeesofts$0.055Tarabica+robusta10.5M t
16sugarsofts$0.062Traw175M t
17cottonsofts$0.048Tlint25M t
18palm oiloils$0.095Tcpo78M t
19platinum groupprecious$0.038Tpt+pd~450 t
20silverprecious$0.028Tmine~26k t

volumes and values use rounded spot × production estimates — excludes financial derivatives notionals. not a trading recommendation.