Cotton Price
The dominant natural fiber for textiles, grown mainly in China, India, the US and Brazil. Prices compete with synthetic fibers made from oil, and move with global apparel demand, planting decisions relative to competing crops like soybeans, and weather in major growing regions.
Latest World price (2025-12): -24% vs. the 5-year average, -17% vs. the 10-year average, -7% vs. a year ago.
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"World" is the global benchmark price (World Bank Pink Sheet, monthly since 1960, where available). EU country options are Eurostat producer prices (annual); Canadian province options are Statistics Canada producer prices (monthly); US state options are USDA AMS daily cash grain bids (individual elevators/trade locations averaged per state per day), "United States" alone is USDA NASS's monthly national figure. "EU-27 (average)", "Canada (average)" and "US daily average" are simple, unweighted means across whichever member states/provinces/US states reported a price that period, computed by agri.markets — none of these sources publishes an official aggregate for this data, so these are not production-weighted figures. Currency conversion uses monthly ECB reference rates since 1999 (some currencies joined later) — for comparison, not precise historical FX accounting.