Natural gas price (USD / MMBtu) - Japan - World Bank Pink Sheets - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Natural gas prices (World Bank Pink Sheets)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to statistics provided by the World Bank, the price of natural gas in Japan was 11.80 USD / MMBtu in July 2026, compared to 11.79 in the previous month. This constitutes a gain of 0.08 percent.
Sample. There are 595 observations overall in the monthly time series displayed in the figure above. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 1977 to July 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: the price was equal on average to 7.35 USD / MMBtu; it reached a trough of 2.72 in December 1998; it hit a maximum of 23.73 in September 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD / MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 12.88 |
| 2026-06-30 | 11.79 |
| 2026-07-31 | 11.8 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Commodity price |
| Country or region | Asia |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Price estimates |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | USD / MMBtu |
| Sources | World Bank |
| Source type | International organization |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution Licence |
| Measure type | Level |
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Natural gas prices
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural gas price (USD / MMBtu) - United States - World Bank Pink Sheets - Monthly | 799 | 1960-01-31 | 2026-07-31 |
| Natural gas price (USD / MMBtu) - Europe - World Bank Pink Sheets - Monthly | 799 | 1960-01-31 | 2026-07-31 |
| Natural gas price (USD / MMBtu) - Japan - World Bank Pink Sheets - Monthly | 595 | 1977-01-31 | 2026-07-31 |
| Natural gas price (Index; 2010 = 100) - World - World Bank Pink Sheets - Monthly | 595 | 1977-01-31 | 2026-07-31 |