Bank of Canada commodity price index (total)
The Bank of Canada's index of the prices of Canada's main commodity exports, weighted by their importance, in US dollars (1972 = 100).
Monthly average, delayed Observed 2026-09 · retrieved 2026-11-05 · Source: Bank of Canada · Not a live quote.
Bank of Canada commodity price index (total) over time
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Bank of Canada commodity price index (total)
index, 1972=100 (US$). Index, 1972 = 100, US dollars; monthly.
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Latest values: Bank of Canada commodity price index (total) 747.7 (2026-09).
Related relationships: Commodity prices (BoC index) · 1 relationship use this data as evidence
Quotation convention. Index, 1972 = 100, US dollars; monthly.
What this indicator is and why it is watched
What it measures
The Bank of Canada's index of the prices of Canada's main commodity exports, weighted by their importance, in US dollars (1972 = 100).
Why it is watched
It summarises how the prices of what Canada sells abroad are moving.
How it connects to the wider economy
Context, not a claim of cause.
Energy dominates the index; see the energy and non-energy components.
Northline describes relationships as documented mechanisms, statistical associations or hypotheses. Nothing on this page states that a movement in this indicator caused a movement in another.
How the data are produced
- Publisher
- Bank of Canada
- Dataset
- M.BCPI
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- index, 1972=100 (US$)
- Observations
- 321 (long history)
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-05
- Series id
gl08_bcpi_total_m
Monthly, Bank of Canada Commodity Price Index.
Source: Bank of Canada, Monthly BCPI Total - v52673496 (M.BCPI). Content reused under the Bank of Canada terms (https://www.bankofcanada.ca/terms/); changes: values unchanged.
Licence conditions: see source terms: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/terms/; attribution required.
Missing observations are left missing and are never interpolated. Statistical agencies can revise published values; the observation date and retrieval date above identify the version shown. Methodology and sources.
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