Main Economic Indicators

ISSN :
2074-4021 (online)
DOI :
10.1787/mei-data-en
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The Main Economic Indicators database includes a wide range of areas from 1961, such as quarterly national accounts, business surveys, retail sales, industrial production, construction, consumer prices, total employment, unemployment rates, interest rates, money and domestic finance, foreign finance, foreign trade, and balance of payments for OECD countries and non-member economies.

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Keywords: MEI, earnings, main economic indicators, prices, labour, sales, production, balance of payments, consumer opinion, trade, leading indicators, employment, labour cost, finance, BOP
 

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  • Key short-term indicators

    This dataset includes key indicators in growth rates and levels covering a wide range of areas, such as quarterly national accounts, business surveys, retail sales, industrial production, construction, consumer prices, total employment, unemployment rates, interest rates, money and domestic finance, foreign finance, foreign trade and balance of payments.

  • Balance of payments

    This dataset includes current account: goods, services, income and current transfers. Data are expressed in millions of national currency and US dollars.

  • Business tendency and consumer opinion surveys

    This dataset includes manufacturing and construction industry, retail trade, services industries, non-manufacturing industries and consumer opinions on economic situation, confidence indicators and inflation.

  • Composite leading indicators

    This dataset includes times series, formed by aggregating a variety of component indicators which show a reasonably consistent relationship with a reference series (e.g. industrial production IIP) at turning points.

  • Finance

    This dataset includes financial statistics on five separate subjects: monetary aggregates, interest rates, exchange rates, reserve assets, and share prices. Data are expressed in different measures.

  • International trade

    This dataset includes exports, imports, balance and world trade statistics. Data are expressed in billions of US dollars.

  • Expand / Collapse Labour

    This database includes data on unit labour cost, hourly earnings, labour force and registered unemployed and job vacancies.
    • Hourly earnings

      This dataset includes seasonally adjusted average total earnings paid per employed person per hour, including overtime pay and regularly recurring cash supplements. Data are expressed in index 2005=100.

    • Labour force statistics

      This dataset includes labour statistics broken down by sex such as: civilian employment, employees, unemployment, etc. Data are collected from sample household surveys on a monthly or quarterly basis. Data are expressed in levels, rates, quantities or indexes 2005=100.

    • Registered unemployed and job vacancies

      This dataset includes registered unemployment rates and levels and job vacancies statistics.

    • Unit labour cost - quarterly indicators

      This dataset includes quarterly unit labour costs, total labour costs, real output, total employment to employees, labour income share ratio, labour productivity and compensation broken down by sectors. Data are expressed in different measures.

    • Unit labour costs - annual indicators

      This dataset includes annual unit labour costs, total labour costs, real output, total employment to employees, labour income share ratio, labour productivity and compensation broken down by sector. Data are expressed in index 2005=100 or percentages.

  • Expand / Collapse Prices

    This database includes data on consumer prices, production prices, comparative price levels and weights of the national consumer price indices.
    • Consumer prices

      The consumer prices dataset includes all items, food, energy, housing. Data are expressed in index 2005=100 or percentages.

    • Consumer prices: national weights
      This dataset contains the annual expenditure weights for the national consumer price indices at a detailed level of the Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose(COICOP), except for Australia and Korea.
    • Comparative price levels
      This dataset contains monthly comparative price levels (CPL) which are defined as the ratios of purchasing power parities for private final consumption expenditure to exchange rates.
    • Producer prices
      The producer prices dataset includes total industrial product and manufacturing products. Data are expressed in index 2005=100 or percentages.

  • Production and sales

    This dataset includes industrial statistics on four separate subjects: production; sales; orders and work started. Data are expressed in index 2005=100 or tons.

  • Main Economic Indicators - complete database

    This dataset includes main economic indicators covering a wide range of areas, such as quarterly national accounts, business surveys, retail sales, industrial production, construction, consumer prices, total employment, unemployment rates, interest rates, money and domestic finance, foreign finance, foreign trade, and balance of payments. Data are expressed in different measures.

  • Revisions analysis

    This dataset includes data published in every edition of the Main Economic Indicators and observe the revisions made to first published data for key economic variables such as gross domestic product and its expenditure components, industrial production and production in construction, balance of payments, composite leading indicators, consumer prices, retail trade, unemployment rates, civilian employment, hourly earnings, monetary aggregates and international trade.

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