Best of Silver
The 10 Best Silver Datasets in 2026
10 Silver picks, ranked on what's inside: field richness, coverage depth, fit for the job. USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 - Silver leads.
- 10ranked picks
- 0/4with mapped coverage
API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Every dataset here carries a 0–10 score built on documented fields, and the ranking follows those scores. When records tie, coverage breaks it: more geography, deeper history, finer granularity. Cadence isn't a scoring axis — it's a delivery setting. Delivered daily, weekly, or hourly, your call.
- 1 World Bank Commodity Markets
- 2 9/10
Why it ranks second: it is the densest verified fact-per-page record in silver - roughly 30 numeric points, each traceable to a federal statistical agency - which makes it the citation everyone else reconciles against.
- 3 USGS Silver Statistics and Information
- 4 9/10Precious metals minerals
USGS MRDATA
- 5 iShares Silver Trust Daily Holdings
- 6 8/10Precious metals minerals
LBMA Precious Metals Prices
- 7 Silver Institute - Silver Supply Demand statistics
- 8 Yahoo Finance - Silver Futures
- 9 6/10
Why it ranks ninth: breadth per call - spot, bid/ask, day range and currency conversion in one request - though its own timeseries reaches only five-plus years back, nowhere near the Pink Sheet's 1960 start.
- 10 Trading Economics - Silver Price Historical Data
Frequently asked questions
What is the single best silver dataset?
The World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet), on our scoring. Quality 10/10, the only perfect grade in the slice: monthly silver from January 1960 among roughly 70 commodities, nominal and constant-2010 real dollars, 805 observations per series in one workbook. No other silver record matches that span, and none makes cross-commodity comparison cheaper.
Which silver dataset has the longest historical coverage?
The World Bank Pink Sheet runs monthly silver from January 1960 - 66 years and counting. For single-market daily depth, Trading Economics starts January 2, 1975 with roughly 13,000 observations, and Stooq's XAGUSD series spans decades of sessions in one file. On the physical side, USGS Minerals Yearbook silver chapters reach back to 1994.
Where does silver mine production by country come from?
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 - Silver covers the world total plus 14 named producers each January: Mexico led 2024 estimates at 6,300 tonnes ahead of China at 3,300 and Peru at 3,100. The Silver Institute adds top-20 country and company rankings from World Silver Survey figures, with Mexico, China, Peru, Bolivia and Chile at the head.
Is there silver supply and demand data by application?
One record carries it: Silver Institute - Silver Supply & Demand statistics, summarizing World Silver Survey figures annually in million troy ounces. The 2024 cycle shows industrial, photovoltaic, jewelry at 208.7 million ounces, silverware at 54.2, recycling at a twelve-year high of 193.9, and total demand of 1.16 billion ounces against 819.7 million mined.