Glossary
supply and demand balance
supply and demand balance is annual or quarterly accounting that sets mine plus recycled supply against demand by sector and closes with a market balance or deficit figure. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, Silver Institute market statistics and World Platinum Investment Council supply/demand data are working examples.
What is supply and demand balance?
An annual or quarterly accounting that sets mine plus recycled supply against demand by sector and closes with a market balance or deficit figure.
All four precious-metals industry bodies in this slice publish their own version of it.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - Silver Institute market statistics — "mine production, recycling, fabrication and jewelry demand". - World Platinum Investment Council supply/demand data — "Platinum Quarterly with market balance". - IPA statistics — "six per-metal PGM fact sheets covering supply, demand and trade". - World Gold Council Goldhub — "sector and country demand/supply tables, quarterly with multi-decade history".
Why does supply and demand balance matter when choosing a dataset?
Conventions decide whether two sources can be joined at all. Buy one side of an analysis that ignores this convention and every reconciliation step — calendar alignment, unit conversion, entity matching — lands on your team instead of the vendor's.
The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and Silver Institute market statistics lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate supply and demand balance in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open Silver Institute market statistics and confirm its record — "mine production, recycling, fabrication and jewelry demand" — against the files you actually receive.
- Open World Platinum Investment Council supply/demand data and confirm its record — "Platinum Quarterly with market balance" — against the files you actually receive.
- Open IPA statistics and confirm its record — "six per-metal PGM fact sheets covering supply, demand and trade" — against the files you actually receive.
See the term applied to real records: precious-metals-minerals data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - above ground stocks - gold etf flows - mine production - recycling scrap supply
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of supply and demand balance?
Silver Institute market statistics is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record states: "mine production, recycling, fabrication and jewelry demand". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "supply and demand balance" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides supply and demand balance?
Open Silver Institute market statistics next to World Platinum Investment Council supply/demand data and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing supply and demand balance
6 datasets carry supply and demand balance in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
BGS MineralsUK: UK and World Mineral Statistics
synthetic_id · year · yearbook_table_id …+13 more
BullionStar Gold Price and Historical Data: Singapore Bullion Exchange Prices
fromIndex · toIndex · dataSeries …+9 more
Indian Bureau of Mines statistics: Indian Minerals Yearbook & mineral production
State/District · Ore Produced · Avg. Grade (gram/tonne) …+6 more
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