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Lead Price History — Recent 10-Day Base
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
Lead's Price History Is Really a Story About Changing Uses
Today's lead rate is ₹0.17 per gram, but the more interesting question behind "lead price history" usually isn't about a specific past number — it's about how differently lead used to be consumed. A century ago, lead showed up in house paint, drinking-water pipes, and the petrol burned in car engines. Almost none of that demand exists anymore in most of the world.
That's not a minor footnote. It means the demand base setting today's price is fundamentally narrower and more industrial than the one that set prices decades ago, even though the metal itself hasn't changed at all.
- Today's price: ₹0.17 per gram (₹166.28 per kg)
- Historical demand (largely phased out): paint, plumbing pipes, leaded petrol
- Modern demand (dominant today): lead-acid batteries, automotive and stationary
Lead Price History — Value by Weight
Today's Lead rate is Less than One Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Lead costs Two Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹0.17 | Less than One Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹1.33 | One Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹1.66 | Two Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹16.63 | Seventeen Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹166.28 | One Hundred and Sixty Six Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹4.71 | Five Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹5.17 | Five Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹166,276.00 | One Lakh Sixty Six Thousand Two Hundred and Seventy Six Rupees |
The Phase-Out That Reshaped Lead's Market
The retreat from paint, pipes and petrol didn't happen overnight, and it didn't happen for economic reasons — it happened because the health case against lead exposure became impossible to ignore. Lead is toxic, and the risks from lead paint dust, lead-contaminated drinking water and airborne lead from vehicle exhaust are well documented, with children particularly vulnerable. Regulators across most of the world moved through the latter half of the twentieth century to restrict and eventually eliminate these uses.
What filled the gap
Lead-acid batteries didn't just survive that shift — they became the metal's dominant application by a wide margin. Automotive starter batteries and larger stationary batteries used for backup and telecom power kept lead firmly embedded in industrial supply chains, even as its old consumer-facing uses disappeared. That's a genuinely unusual pattern for a metal: most of its historical uses vanished, yet overall demand found a new, narrower, and remarkably durable home.
The other structural shift worth noting is how much of today's supply comes from recycling rather than fresh mining. A very large share of the lead in circulation traces back to used batteries collected and reprocessed through secondary smelters, a genuinely distinctive feature of lead's market compared to most other metals tracked on this site.
Lead Price History — Last 10 Recorded Days
The most recent Lead price on record (2026-09-17) is Less than One Rupees per gram.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹0.17 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹0.17 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹0.16 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹0.16 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹0.16 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹0.16 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹0.17 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹0.17 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹0.17 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹0.17 | — |
What This Means for Reading the Chart Today
Because lead's demand base is now concentrated so heavily in batteries, and because its supply leans so heavily on recycling, its price behaviour today looks calmer than it did when the metal's fate was tied to a much wider — and more politically contested — set of consumer uses. That's not a guarantee of permanent calm; automotive production cycles, backup-power installation demand, and shifts in scrap collection rates can all still move the number meaningfully.
For anyone who wants actual recorded figures rather than a general description, the site's own lead price history page holds the data, organized by year and month, going back further than the 10-day window shown on this page. That's the right place to check what actually happened on a specific date — this page is meant to explain why lead's price story looks the way it does today.
Lead Price History — FAQs
The biggest change isn't really about price levels — it's about what drives them. Lead used to serve a much wider set of everyday uses: paint, plumbing pipes, and leaded petrol among them. Most of the world phased those uses out over the second half of the twentieth century once the health risks of lead exposure became well understood and documented. Today's price is driven overwhelmingly by a narrower, more industrial demand base — chiefly lead-acid batteries.
Lead is toxic, and prolonged exposure — through paint dust, contaminated drinking water from lead pipes, or airborne lead from leaded petrol exhaust — carries well-documented health risks, particularly for children. As the scientific and public-health case became clear, most countries phased out these uses through the late twentieth century, which reshaped lead's demand profile permanently.
Lead remains a genuine industrial commodity that moves with global demand and supply, so normal cyclical swings are still part of its story. What has changed is the underlying driver — rather than a wide spread of consumer and industrial uses, the price now tracks battery demand and recycled-scrap supply far more closely than it once did.
The lead price history page holds the site's own recorded daily and monthly data, with real figures rather than a general narrative.
Generally, yes. Lead has traded on the London Metal Exchange for a very long time and its supply is unusually reliant on recycling from used batteries, which tends to smooth out the kind of sharp shortage-driven cycles that a newer, narrower market like lithium has experienced. That said, lead is still a cyclical industrial metal and its price does move with global manufacturing and automotive activity.
