Trend · rank 54 of 250

Commodity dependence & price volatility

Swings in energy, food and metal prices pass directly into the export income, import bills and public revenue of nations with narrow export baskets, which makes their fiscal and trade planning unreliable.

Trade & InvestmentTrade, industry & supply chainstradedebt financematerials

Second pass: Carried forward from the first pass, where it was Commodity price volatility. Held by all three panel models.

Sensitivity and network position

Rank
54of 250
Sensitivity
23.3rank 17
Breadth
5of 20 scenarios High or above
PageRank
32.9rank 131
Eigenvector
0.7
Betweenness
9.7
Links
9trends at Moderate similarity or above
Composite
29.7

Attention over three years

How much this trend is read about on Wikipedia and searched for on Google, week by week, set against the typical trend in the list so that what moves every trend at once is taken out. 100 is this trend's own three-year average. The score measures public attention, which is not the same as the strength of the force: a trend can deepen unnoticed, and a news event can lift attention for a fortnight.

Now
106
Over a year
+20%Rising
Over three years
+10%
Peak
1844 Jan 2026
Sources
Bothagreement 0.18
Coverage
16languages · 59 nations

Trailing 4-week average. 100 is this trend’s three-year average.

By language

Wikipedia reading in each language edition where the trend’s pages are read enough to measure (16 of 28). Share is of all the readers counted.

LanguageShareNowOver a yearThree years
English62%100+7%
Chinese6%116+38%
French5%122+29%
Russian5%93+1%
Spanish5%120+78%
Japanese4%110+21%
German4%92+7%
Persian3%75−9%
Polish1%94−18%
Portuguese1%136+64%
Arabic1%131+40%
Ukrainian1%116−4%
Italian1%126+21%
Korean1%193+115%
Indonesian0%179+78%
Vietnamese0%185+119%

By country

Google search interest over the three years, as a share of each country’s searching. 100 is the nation where interest is highest. The search terms are English, which favours countries that search in English.

Singapore

Ghana

Ethiopia

New Zealand

Canada

Australia

United States

Netherlands

South Korea

United Kingdom

China

Pakistan

100

96

90

86

72

70

62

52

50

43

41

41

The 12 highest of 59 nations with a reading.

By region and G20 member

Attention to this trend inside each place, from Google searches made in its countries and Wikipedia reading in the languages mostly read there, averaged where both exist. Each line compares the trend with its own past in that place; the lines do not compare places.

Regions

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
North AmericaGoogle in 2 countries + Wikipedia in English98−7%−7%−4%
EuropeGoogle in 3 countries + Wikipedia in German, French, Italian, Polish104−1%+11%+2%
Indo-PacificGoogle in 4 countries + Wikipedia in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian112+5%+15%+4%
South AsiaGoogle in 1 country82−9%−16%−52%
Gulf and Middle EastWikipedia in Persian, Arabic98−34%+12%−9%
Latin America and CaribbeanGoogle in 1 country + Wikipedia in Spanish, Portuguese112−15%+24%+45%
Russia and EurasiaWikipedia in Russian, Ukrainian99−24%−1%−2%

G20 members

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
AustraliaGoogle90−9%+13%−12%
BrazilGoogle + Wikipedia in Portuguese117−2%+23%+57%
CanadaGoogle120+30%−38%+30%
FranceGoogle + Wikipedia in French123+44%−11%+35%
GermanyGoogle + Wikipedia in German93−30%+85%−17%
IndiaGoogle82−9%−16%−52%
IndonesiaGoogle + Wikipedia in Indonesian134+5%+12%+48%
ItalyWikipedia in Italian126+30%+21%+63%
JapanGoogle + Wikipedia in Japanese109+4%+18%−3%
South KoreaWikipedia in Korean193+37%+115%+174%
RussiaWikipedia in Russian93−33%+1%−3%
United KingdomGoogle82−18%−4%−26%
United StatesGoogle + Wikipedia in English94−10%+3%−12%

Relation to each scenario

A trend relates to a scenario when it changes how likely the scenario is, how hard it lands, or is itself sharply changed by it. Each score is the median of three scores given separately by the members of the model panel.

RelationScenarioFamily
5 · Very highA regional war closes a globally important sea route S03Geopolitical and security
5 · Very highTwo breadbasket failures trigger a food availability crisis S06Energy, climate and resources
5 · Very highCheap firm clean power becomes available at scale S15 ↗Energy, climate and resources
4 · HighA verified Middle East settlement restores access S14 ↗Geopolitical and security
4 · HighA validated farming package raises water-efficient output S16 ↗Energy, climate and resources
3 · ModerateCritical trade divides into rival blocs S01Economic and trade
2 · LowA global funding seizure reaches sovereign balance sheets S02Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedHybrid coercion ends in an infrastructure blackout S04Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA disputed transfer of power breaks effective government S05Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA major disaster disables the national economic core S07Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedAn AI deployment step causes abrupt labour displacement S08Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA cryptographic breakthrough invalidates digital trust S09Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA novel respiratory pathogen exceeds health surge capacity S10Health
0 · Not relatedA creditor agreement releases fiscal capacity S11 ↗Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA cross-regional market access compact redirects investment S12 ↗Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA great-power agreement lowers economic security barriers S13 ↗Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedAI-directed research produces a reproducible discovery step S17 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA public service platform reaches inclusive operation S18 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedAffordable preventive treatments reduce chronic illness S19 ↗Health
0 · Not relatedA live outbreak proves rapid distributed pandemic defence S20 ↗Health

Similarity = 0.3 × shared tags (Jaccard) + 0.3 × likeness of scenario profiles (cosine) + 0.3 × likeness of names and descriptions (TF-IDF cosine) + 0.1 if in the same capability domain, cut into seven levels at 0.12, 0.22, 0.33, 0.45, 0.58, 0.72. Shown at Moderate and above.

SimilarityTrendThemeRank
3 · ModerateForeign investment slowdown & selectivityTrade, industry & supply chains23
3 · ModeratePort & carrier concentrationTrade, industry & supply chains94
3 · ModerateRare earth processing concentrationTrade, industry & supply chains102
3 · ModerateSovereign wealth & state capitalTrade, industry & supply chains108
3 · ModerateSanctions circumvention networksTrade, industry & supply chains140
3 · ModerateEnergy import dependenceTrade, industry & supply chains141
3 · ModerateFertiliser supply dependenceFood, water & nature143
3 · ModerateCritical minerals supply constraintsTrade, industry & supply chains155
3 · ModerateStaple food export concentrationFood, water & nature159