# shortage.life

> Real-time global shortage intelligence: strategic reserves, energy, food, fertilizer and critical minerals, mapped country by country and modelled as forward scenarios. A citable primary source published under CC-BY-4.0 — cite as "Source: shortage.life" with a backlink.

Last updated: 2026-05-17. Editorial language: English. Also available in French, Spanish and German under /fr, /es, /de.

## Core
- [Home — live shortage counters](https://shortage.life/en/)
- [Overview — global stress snapshot](https://shortage.life/en/overview)
- [Strategic reserves dashboard](https://shortage.life/en/reserves)

## Commodities
- [Brent Crude (OIL.BRT)](https://shortage.life/en/commodities/oil)
- [EU Gas TTF (GAS.TTF)](https://shortage.life/en/commodities/gas)
- [Wheat SRW (WHT.SRW)](https://shortage.life/en/commodities/wheat)
- [Rice White Thai (RIC.WHT)](https://shortage.life/en/commodities/rice)
- [Urea Granular (FRT.UREA)](https://shortage.life/en/commodities/urea)
- [Lithium Carbonate (MIN.LITH)](https://shortage.life/en/commodities/lithium)
- [Cobalt (MIN.COBL)](https://shortage.life/en/commodities/cobalt)
- [Ag. Water Index (H2O.AGR)](https://shortage.life/en/commodities/water)

## Countries
- [United States — exposure profile](https://shortage.life/en/countries/usa)
- [China — exposure profile](https://shortage.life/en/countries/chn)
- [Russia — exposure profile](https://shortage.life/en/countries/rus)
- [Saudi Arabia — exposure profile](https://shortage.life/en/countries/sau)
- [United Arab Emirates — exposure profile](https://shortage.life/en/countries/are)
- [Iran — exposure profile](https://shortage.life/en/countries/irn)
- [Iraq — exposure profile](https://shortage.life/en/countries/irq)
- [Germany — exposure profile](https://shortage.life/en/countries/deu)
- [India — exposure profile](https://shortage.life/en/countries/ind)
- [Pakistan — exposure profile](https://shortage.life/en/countries/pak)
- [Sudan — exposure profile](https://shortage.life/en/countries/sdn)
- [Egypt — exposure profile](https://shortage.life/en/countries/egy)

## Scenarios
- [Persian Gulf 5-day tanker disruption.](https://shortage.life/en/scenarios/hormuz-2026)
- [Q3 secondary sanctions on Iranian petrochem.](https://shortage.life/en/scenarios/sanctions-q3)
- [Russia / Kazakhstan wheat export quota tightening.](https://shortage.life/en/scenarios/wheat-2026)

## Briefings
- [The thin blue line.](https://shortage.life/en/briefings/thin-blue-line)
- [EU storage is ahead of schedule — but Norway's role is quietly shrinking.](https://shortage.life/en/briefings/eu-storage-norway)
- [Black Sea grain corridor: three trigger pathways for a Q3 disruption.](https://shortage.life/en/briefings/black-sea-corridor)
- [What three weeks at the Suez Canal Authority told us about insurance pricing.](https://shortage.life/en/briefings/suez-insurance)
- [Urea above $375 a tonne: the pre-monsoon arithmetic for South Asian agriculture.](https://shortage.life/en/briefings/urea-monsoon)
- [How we compute the country stress index, and what changed in v3.2.](https://shortage.life/en/briefings/stress-index-v32)

## Reference
- [Methodology](https://shortage.life/en/methodology)
- [Sources and licenses](https://shortage.life/en/sources)
- [Public API documentation](https://shortage.life/en/api-docs)
- [About shortage.life](https://shortage.life/en/about)

## Optional
- [Full content corpus](https://shortage.life/llms-full.txt)
- [Events timeline](https://shortage.life/en/events)