Oil, Metals & the Physical Economy
A data-driven tour of the raw materials that move markets. Live commodity prices, proven reserves, resource-rent dependence and the boom-and-bust cycles that reshape petrostates.
Who Has What?
Proven reserves and production concentrate in a handful of countries — often the same ones. Together they set global supply.
Top Oil Reserves
Seed 2024Top Oil Producers
Seed 2024Most Oil-Rent Dependent
World BankThe Dependence Quadrant
Every economy sits somewhere on the resource-rents / growth plane. Four archetypes emerge — from diversified rich to caught in the resource curse.
Boom & Bust
Fifty years of oil prices, broken into the shocks that made and unmade petrostates. Click any era to see who won and who lost.
The Reserves Clock
Reserves ÷ production = years of supply at today's extraction rate. Not a doomsday countdown — proven reserves grow as prices rise — but a snapshot of geological pressure.
Curse or Blessing?
A composite vulnerability score for every tracked economy — the higher, the more exposed to commodity swings. Sort by any column.