Commodities · Industrial metals

Copper Price (monthly, since 1960)

World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet): monthly averages of world benchmark prices in U.S. dollars.

YearAverageYear close
1960$0.31$0.29
1961$0.29$0.29
1962$0.29$0.29
1963$0.29$0.29
1964$0.44$0.58
1965$0.59$0.69
1966$0.69$0.55
1967$0.51$0.60
1968$0.56$0.54
1969$0.67$0.77
1970$0.64$0.47
1971$0.49$0.47

Source: World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet): Copper. The World Bank, CC BY 4.0.

Gray bands mark U.S. recessions as dated by the NBER (FRED USREC).

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